Downloading and Installing Tools for Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier development environment for Microsoft Azure. To enable the IDE, you need to download and install Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET and Visual Studio 2015. At this writing, the latest SDK available is version 2.5.1. You can find it at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/. Download the installer and follow the instructions to target Visual Studio 2015. Installing the SDK will make available on your machine some tools for Visual Studio that enable you to create and manage projects the usual way, as well as the Microsoft Azure SDK. The Microsoft Azure SDK is composed by the Compute Emulator, a tool that locally reproduces the hosting services on the cloud and ...

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