Create the ASP.NET Application and Azure Hosting

Azure web apps can be created directly from the Azure portal interface (a website) or from within Visual Studio (for ASP.NET solutions). The portal interface allows deploying from a source code provider such as Visual Studio Online, GitHub, TeamCity, Hudson, or BitBucket. You can use these source control providers for continuous deployment during a dev-test scenario. Here, we cover creating directly from Visual Studio. (The portal interface is covered in upcoming sections.)

To get started, we will create a new ASP.NET application linked directly to an Azure web app. This will create the Visual Studio application project (and related source code) locally as well as set up an Azure web app to which ...

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