Creating a Cloud Application
You create an application destined for the cloud by selecting the Cloud Service template from Visual Studio’s New Project dialog. Doing so brings up the New Cloud Service Project dialog as shown in Figure 1.19. Here, you select a role (or type) for your application. The ASP.NET Web Role, for example, tells Visual Studio to create a standard ASP.NET website for deploying in the cloud. This is also the role you would use to move your existing ASP.NET sites to the cloud.
Figure 1.19 Selecting the role for your cloud service project.
Developing for the cloud is very similar to developing standard .NET applications. In ...
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