Azure Resource Group Deployment Projects

Previously in the chapter, you saw how you could create a Visual Studio ASP.NET project, link it to Azure, and deploy it when the time came. The two examples showed both the Azure setup and configuration required to host the site at the time of project creation and another example doing so post-project creation. This works great for working with web apps. However, a single Azure application might use many different Azure services, such as web app, SQL, and cache. In that case, you would like a means to build the entire Azure group of services for your application from within Visual Studio.

The Azure SDK includes the concept of Resource Groups. This is a method to manage the Azure resources that your application ...

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