This document provides a 23 step guide for creating and deploying a Windows Azure Cloud Service using Visual Studio. It details steps for creating a cloud service through the Azure portal, creating a web role project in Visual Studio, configuring and running the project locally in the emulator, publishing the project to Azure, and verifying the deployment. Key steps include selecting Web Role templates, renaming roles, enabling remote desktop, importing publish settings, selecting deployment environments and configurations, and monitoring deployment status.

1. Author: Arunkumar Palanisamy [Technical Lead]
Co-Writer: Uma Maheswari P [Software Engineer]
Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore
Windows Azure Cloud Services
Hands on Lab Manual
Author: Arunkumar Palanisamy [Technical Lead]
Co-Writer: Anandhan Ramasamy [Software Engineer]
Aditi Technologies Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore

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Step 1: Go to https://manage.windowsazure.com/ and enter your credentials.
Step 2: Select the Websites Tab in from the right hand side menu then Click New button in the
bottom of the page.

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Step 3: Click “COMPUTE -> CLOUD SERVICE -> QUICK CREATE”.
Step 4: Enter the URL for the website. (eg:TestAzure) which is followed by cloudapp.net
and select the preferred Region where the portal could be hosted.

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Step 5: Click CREATE CLOUD SERVICE button in the bottom of the page.

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Step 6: Cloud Service created and shows your Cloud Service details under Cloud Service
tab.
Step 7: Click Arrow button () in right-side of your site name.

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Step 8: Open Visual Studio then Click New Project Cloud  Windows Azure Cloud Service

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Step 9: Enter an appropriate name for the project and click OK to continue.
Step 10: Now you will be prompted with another dialog for selecting the type of project.
Double click on the ASP.NET Web Role option.

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Step 11: Hover over WebRole1 under Windows Azure solution, click the pencil icon, and rename
the web role. Then Click OK.
Now you are ready with the Web Role project.

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Step 12: Now execute the application and you will be able to see the application inside the
browser. From the system tray, you can verify the Windows Azure Emulator as running. If
successfully executed, you can see the web role opened in a browser.
Step 13: In Visual Studio, right-click the project in Solution Explorer and Click Publish to
Windows Azure from the context menu.

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The Publish Web wizard opens.
Step 14: In the Sign in tab of the Publish Windows Azure Application wizard, click Sign in to
download credentials.
Step 15: When prompted to save the Credential file, click OK.

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Step 16: In the Profile tab of the Publish Web wizard, click Import.
Step 17: Select the .publishsettings file you downloaded earlier, and then click Open.

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Step 18: Click Next button.

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Step 19: Clicking the Next button takes you to the Common Settings tab. This tab allows
you to select an existing cloud service or even create a new one. Also, you can choose
which environment you want to deploy to production or staging and which build service
configuration you want to use. This is the place where you can choose which ones to use for
your deployment.
Step 20: Click Enable Remote Desktop for all roles checkbox in the Settings tab and also enter your
remote desktop credentials and then click OK.

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Step 21: Verify Cloud Service details in the Summary tab and Click Publish.
Waiting for Staging process completion in Visual Studio.

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Step 22: Go to Cloud Service page in the browser and then click Arrow button () in right-
side of your site name.

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Verify the difference in this window.
Step 23: Click DASHBOARD tab in the top of the page.

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Step 24: Check your Cloud Service details in the page and then click SITE URL.

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That page open in the cloud.