QuickStart Templates
The Azure SDK ships with a number of QuickStart templates designed to speed your development of applications that take advantage of the many Azure services. You access these templates from the New Project dialog (File, New, Project) under the Cloud node. Figure 12.64 shows an example of these many project templates.
FIGURE 12.64 Use the Azure QuickStart templates to speed development of applications that use Azure services.
The QuickStart templates for Azure provide sample code and configuration for various Azure services. The following outlines the templates available at the time of writing:
AppServices
Azure Active Directory: Graph API—Shows how to use the AAD Graph API for working with users, groups, and membership roles
Azure Active Directory: Web Authentication with OpenID Connect—Shows how to build an application with ASP.NET MVC and use OpenID for Azure AD sign-in
Azure Media Services: Transcoding—Shows how to use Azure media services to transcode media in various formats for streaming
Azure Service Bus: Messaging with Queues—Demonstrates using Azure queues for building reliable messaging applications
Azure Service Bus: Messaging with Topics—Illustrates using Azure Service Bus Topics for distributed messaging applications based on the PubSub pattern
Compute
Azure WebJobs SDK: Blobs—Example of creating WebJobs to work with Blob storage
Azure WebJobs SDK: Queues—Project template for using WebJobs to work with queues
Azure WebJobs SDK: Service Bus—Shows how to leverage Azure Service Bus with WebJobs
Azure WebJobs SDK: Tables—Example of WebJobs working with Azure table storage
Deploy and Manage Cloud Services—Template for creating code to provision (and deprovision) Storage Accounts and Cloud Services
Deploy and Manage Virtual Machines—Template for creating code to provision (and deprovision) Azure VMs
Deploy and Manage Web Sites—Example of Azure web app deployments using WAML
DataServices
Azure DocumentDB—Allows you to write code that stores JSON messages/documents
Azure Redis Cache—Shows how you can create an application to move items into and out of the Azure cache service
Azure Storage: Blobs—Builds an application that uses blog storage for files
Azure Storage: Files—Builds an application that uses Azure file storage
Azure Storage: Queues—Allows you to work with Azure storage queues (insert, peek, get, delete messages)
Azure Storage: Tables—Helps you work with structured data and Azure table storage
Deploy and Manage SQL Database—Illustrates how to deploy and manage an Azure SQL Database using the management libraries in Azure
Deploy and Manage Azure Storage—Uses the Azure management libraries for working with the various Azure storage accounts