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Certain versions of Visual Studio 2015 actually preship with the Azure SDK. An easy way to find out if you already have the SDK installed is to create a new project in Visual Studio (File, New, Project). Next, select the Cloud node under your default language. If you see project types then you already have the SDK. If you see Get Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET, you do not have the SDK installed. You can double-click this option and you will be taken to a download page inside Visual Studio with a button to launch the web platform installer for the SDK.

You can also download and install the SDK directly. You can access the download from the Azure site: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/. Here you select the ...

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