Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

Creating ARM Template using Visual Studio

Using Visual Studio 2015 or greater, it provides syntax and dependency checking as you type and allows you to use track changes using a source control repository. One of the most helpful features of using VS is the intellisense available when constructing a template. For this walk through, we will create a template to provision a Service Bus topic and a subscription.

Start Visual Studio and open a new Azure Resource Group project then give it a name. After adding the project name, you will be presented with a list of templates. Choose the option for a Blank Template; we will go through the steps of creating our own.

This will create a skeleton template project with two folders—a Scripts folder to hold ...