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Migrating existing ASP.NET sites to Azure is a process that right now must be performed manually (no sign yet of a migration tool).  The Azure Web Role is very similar to an ASP.NET web project but has some significant differences which unfortunately mean that a straight copy of the project won’t do the trick. It [...]

In a previous article we looked at how to build a basic Azure application using Visual Studio. We now continue with how to publish and deploy that the application. For this demo we will be deploying a Web Role on Azure. In the Visual Studio Solution Explorer right click the cloud project and select Publish… [...]

The first thing to do is download and install the Azure Tools & SDK , this installs the Visual Studio templates as well as a simulated Azure environment on your local machine.  To run the development environment from Visual Studio, you will need to run the Visual Studio as an admin. In Visual Studio, start [...]