Failed to debug Azure timer function in Visual Studio 2017

Question

When I debug the timer function, I get a message (forever) and cannot continue debugging ... "The host is taking more time than expected"

Answer 1

I had this problem and solved it by setting the values ​​for AzureWebJobsDashboard and AzureWebJobsStorage in the local.settings.json file.

I got these values ​​on the Azure portal in the section:

Function Applications → FunctionAppName → Application Application Settings → Managing Application Settings