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Learning Microsoft Azure

You're reading from Learning Microsoft Azure

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782173373

Pages 430 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning Microsoft Azure

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure

2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure

3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure

4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database

5. Building Azure MVC Websites

6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging

7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration

8. Building Worker Roles

9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration

10. Web API and Client Integration

11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services

12. Preparing an Azure System for Production

Index

Deploying cloud packages to Azure

Cloud packages can either be uploaded to a cloud service in the portal or published using PowerShell; what you choose comes down to personal preference, although using PowerShell allows us to automate deployments. There is a great reference for deploying cloud packages using PowerShell at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-continuous-delivery.

Uploading packages into a service through the portal is really straightforward; we'll see how in the following procedure:

Nearly every tab in the cloud services toolbar has an UPLOAD button that is used to upload packages to instances with no current package, or an UPDATE button for instances with a current package loaded, so click on any one button on the toolbar for the instance you want to update:
Enter a DEPLOYMENT LABEL value, which helps you to identify the deployment, and browse to the .cspkg package and the .cscfg configuration, which we built on the build server. The...

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Authors (2)

Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.

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Geoff Webber-Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

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