Creating a Cloud Application
by Mike Snell, Lars Powers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Introducing Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 2. The Visual Studio IDE
- Chapter 3. The .NET Languages
- What’s New in C# 6.0 and VB 14
- Language Primer
- Language Features
- Infer a Variable’s Data Type Based on Assignment
- Create an Object and Initialize Its Values (Object Initializers)
- Define a Collection and Initialize Its Values
- Creating an Instance of a Nonexistent Class
- Add Methods to Existing Classes (Extension Methods)
- Add Business Logic to Generated Code (Partial Methods)
- Access and Query Data Using the .NET Languages
- Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda Expressions)
- Splitting an Assembly Across Multiple Files
- Working with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)
- Removing Unused Arguments from Event Handlers (VB Only)
- Creating an Automatically Implemented Property
- Dropping the Underscore in VB for Line Continuation
- Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects
- Covariance and Contravariance
- Asynchronous Programming
- The .NET Framework
- Summary
- Part II: An In-Depth Look at the IDE
- Chapter 4. Solutions and Projects
- Chapter 5. Browsers and Explorers
- Chapter 6. Introducing the Editors and Designers
- Part III: Working with the Visual Studio Tools
- Chapter 7. Working with Visual Studio’s Productivity Aids
- Chapter 8. Testing Code
- Chapter 9. Refactoring Code
- Chapter 10. Debugging Code
- Chapter 11. Deploying Code
- Chapter 12. Developing Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure
- Chapter 13. Working with Databases
- Part IV: Extending Visual Studio
- Part V: Building Web Applications
- Chapter 17. Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET 5
- Chapter 18. Using JavaScript and Client-Side Frameworks
- Chapter 19. Building and Consuming Services with Web API and WCF
- Part VI: Building Windows Client Apps
- Chapter 20. Building Windows Forms Applications
- Chapter 21. Building WPF Applications
- Chapter 22. Developing Office Business Applications
- Part VII: Creating Mobile Apps
- Chapter 23. Developing Windows Store Applications
- Chapter 24. Creating Windows Phone Applications
- Chapter 25. Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
- Index
- Code Snippets
Creating a Cloud Application
Microsoft Windows Azure continues to mature and offers many scenarios for developers, including data storage, service bus solutions, mobile web services, websites, and much more. Visual Studio is built to integrate with Azure. You get started by downloading and installing the Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2015) 2.5. This includes Visual Studio 2015 tools and project templates along with various Azure emulators.
Note
You can download the Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2015 from the site: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
You can work directly with Azure inside of Visual Studio by selecting the Host in the Cloud option from the new ASP.NET Project dialog as shown back in Figure 1.11 (bottom right). When you select this option, you must log into an Azure account (or create a new one) to set up hosting. In this case, Visual Studio sets up your project and creates an Azure website. You still develop locally but are able to determine when to deploy your project to Azure.
Note
MSDN subscribers have up to $150/month in Azure benefits for development, testing, and production. Use the link that follows to find out your benefit level or search for “MSDN subscribers Azure benefit”: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits-details
The Azure SDK also enables a number of QuickStart templates for building various Azure solutions. You can access these through the New Project dialog, as shown in Figure 1.13. Here you can quickly create a media service, storage queue, service bus messaging application, and more. Selecting a QuickStart template creates an application already configured for the given task you are trying to accomplish.
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