Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Hello Cloud

To round out the fundamentals, let’s look at building a simple Azure application and run it in the DevFabric. For this example, you create a simple, Hello Cloud application. The following outlines the steps in this process:

1. Start by opening Visual Studio in elevated privledge mode (right-click the shortcut and select Run as administrator).

Create a new ASP.NET Web Role application in Visual Studio (File, New Project). Select Cloud from the list on the left of the New Project dialog box.

Set the name of the solution to HelloCloud.

Double-click Windows Azure Cloud Service to launch the New Cloud Service Project dialog box (refer to Figure 25.7).

Select the ASP.NET Web Role and click the right-arrow to move this project into the solution. ...