July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
120 pages
3h 6m
English
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Chapter 2
Moving an Application to the Cloud
IN THIS CHAPTER:
- An overview of publishing options when moving a website to Windows Azure
- Setting and reviewing credentials and server hostnames
- Selecting the best deployment strategy
WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER
Please note that all the code examples in this chapter are available as a part of this chapter’s code download on the book’s website at www.wrox.com on the Download Code tab. You’ll be publishing all the related code from two of the projects in the download:
Basic Site Publish Files — This is a pre-baked deployment ready to push to the cloud, based off of the SimpleSite solution output.
SimpleSite — This is a Visual Studio 2012 solution that you will use as a publishing exercise.
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