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The Azure Project Templates

After your development environment is set up, you have a new project template option available when you click the Cloud link in the New Project dialog box. This template, called Windows Azure Cloud Service (see Figure 25.6), actually provides access to the cloud project types (web and worker roles).

Figure 25.6 The Azure Cloud service templates require an extra step when defining a project.

Selecting the Windows Azure Cloud Service template brings up another dialog box called New Cloud Service Project. This is where you actually define the projects that make up your cloud-deployment solution. This includes ASP.NET, ...