Summary

This chapter presented the building blocks for moving forward with Azure application development within Visual Studio 2015. You must create a Windows Azure account to use the many services. Thankfully, Microsoft has created an easy-to-use management portal for configuration of all Azure items. You can use it to create websites, manage storage, and monitor activity.

The Azure SDK provides additional tools for working with Azure from Visual Studio. With it, you can create templates for the various Azure project types you might add to an application, such as media services, table storage, queues, and service bus. The SDK also includes resource groups for working with a group of Azure items as a logical unit.

Finally, we discussed the differences ...

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