Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Publishing to the Cloud

When you are ready to push your application into the actual cloud, you can do so directly within Visual Studio. You first must publish your solution by right-clicking the cloud service and selecting Publish. This creates a package file (.cspkg) and a configuration file inside your applications bin\Publish directory.

To deploy, you must have an Azure services account (windows.azure.com). In Azure you define and manage your projects and their services. In this case, you would create a hosted service under a specific project you name. The hosted service must map to a URL that provides access to your service. After your service is defined, you can then deploy. You can deploy a staged or production version. Clicking on the ...