1. Windows Azure Development Setup.
What is Windows Azure?
Windows Azure is the platform provided by the Microsoft for developing cloud services.
Windows azure is the Operating System which runs in the data centers of Microsoft, by
using windows azure we can develop, manage and runs the services in the cloud
environment without buying any hardware. Windows azure provides the necessary
features for hosting our services in the cloud. Windows Azure also provides the software
development kit (SDK) and tools for visual studio to develop the services in our
computer.
Why Windows Azure?
Companies have established infrastructure for their current working. When there is a
need to scale up the existing services for some time period, companies need to increase
their hardware and other setup to meet the requirement. This is not one day process;
this takes months of planning, design and implementation, and also costlier process.in
such situations the cloud computing is helpfull.windows azure provides the established
structure (Hardware, server, switches, router, os, etc.) to users. We need to only develop
services in local environment and deploy these services in the windows azure which
charge only on the basis of uses. This saves the lots of money of companies those invest
in establishment for providing services. Windows azure is for everyone who need
hardware setup to establish their business, those needs only to develop services and
deploy them in the windows azure. That’s it!
System requirements:
Operating System:
 Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server.
Software
• Visual Studio .NET 2008/2010 SP+
• .NET Framework 3.5+
• Windows Azure SDK:
You can download SDK from: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio:
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2. You can download Tools from: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx
• SQL Server 2008 Express.
For more information visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15658
Installing windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure tools for Visual
studio 2010.
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, which includes the Windows Azure
SDK, extends Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building,
debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and
services on Windows Azure.
Method 1: Install Standalone setup.
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15658
Method 2: install from Visual Studio Template.
1. Start VS 2010 from Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio
2010
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3. Visual studio 2010 is started.
2. Click on File->New->Project A New Project window is opened.
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4. 3. Select cloud Template in the left hand side, and click ok. It
displays following window if SDK and Tools are not installed.
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5. 4. Click Download Windows Azure Tools to download SDK and
Tools for visual studio. This will take to the installation page.
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6. 5. Click on Install Now.it displays a pop up window as shown
below.
6. Click on run.it again displays a pop up window of security
warning as shown below.
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7. 7. Click on run. It downloads the web Platform Installer.
8. Wait until Web Platform installer loads Windows Azure Tools
for Microsoft Visual Studio
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8. 9. Required tools are loaded now Click on install.
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9. 10. It shows the product list to be installed. Scroll down to see
all the tools. Which installs all the required and dependent
tools?
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10. 11. Click on I Accept. It starts downloading and installation.
Wait until it gets installed.
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11. 12. You get a message of successful installation. Click Finish and
restart system. Sometimes you will get the message of failure,
then restart VS and try again.
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12. Now our setup to develop Windows azure services is
completed. Now we can develop azure services in visual studio
and run them in our computer with the help of SDK we have
installed. The SDK provides an environment called as
Developer Fabric which runs our created services in windows
azure environment in our local computer.
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