Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Setting up your Azure account

To start developing with Windows Azure, you can subscribe to a free one-month trial along with free credits worth $200. You can get even more perks if you have an MSDN subscription. To go along with this, many of Azure's services have free tiers that give you lower performance versions. So if your trial expires, you can continue your development at little or no cost, depending on the services you are using.

Let's begin by navigating to http://windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial and performing the following steps:

1. Click on the Try it now link.
2. Sign in with a Windows Live ID.
3. For security purposes, verify your account via phone or text message.
4. Enter the payment information. This is only used if you exceed your spending ...