Chapter 2. Your first steps with a web role
This chapter covers
- Building a basic website
- Signing up for Azure
- Deploying your first cloud application
With the first chapter out of the way, you should have gotten a feeling for the lay of the land, installed the Windows Azure SDK, and run a Hello World application locally. Let’s dive right in to building a website to run on Azure. In this chapter, we’ll cover all the steps involved:
- Starting a new Visual Studio project
- Building the XHTML and code for the website
- Running and debugging the site locally
- Deploying the site to the Azure staging environment
- Moving the site to the Azure production environment
Don’t let these steps daunt you. If you’ve ever developed a website with ASP.NET, you’re already ...
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