Now it's time to focus and create our first ARM template using Visual Studio 2017. Open Visual Studio 2017 and select File | New | Project | Cloud | Azure Resource Group. Provide a Name and Location in New Project dialog box and click on OK:
Select Blank Template and click on OK:
This should create a solution and the MyFirstTemplate project in Visual Studio. It will also create an ARM template file named azureDeploy.json and a template parameters file named azureDeploy.parameters.json. There is also a PowerShell ...