Link Your Account to Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2015 gives you the option to log in (upper-right corner of the IDE). Provided you log in (which is optional) and your ID is associated with an Azure account, you will get access to your Azure environment directly within Visual Studio. You can also add additional Azure accounts to your Visual Studio profile. This enables you to log in to Visual Studio with one account and log in to Azure with a different account. You can also leverage multiple Azure accounts from the same instance of Visual Studio. Let’s take a look at how this works.

You navigate your Azure services from the Server Explorer window (View, Server Explorer). Figure 12.3 shows an example. Notice that the window exposes Azure cloud ...

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