Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Setting Up the Development Environment

In this chapter, we will walk through a Visual Studio development environment setup for Azure Functions, and also start developing the text sentiment application.

During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Set up the development environment with Visual Studio 2017
• Set up the Azure Functions project
• Create a Function App with a sample text scoring function
• Deploy the application to Azure
• Set up the database to store the scoring results
• Set up a web-based dashboard to display the scoring results
• Tie the serverless compute, the database, and the web tiers together

By the end of this chapter, we will have a simple application comprised of the following components: