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Published inOct 2014
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Geoff Webber Cross
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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 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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We're going to create a basic MVC 5 website, which will become our sales customer website for the case study.

Before you create the project, set up your local development folder with a main subfolder, which is a good practice for Team Foundation Server (TFS) allowing solutions to be branched easily.

Launch Visual Studio and go to create a new project (go to Start | New Project or press Ctrl + Shift + N) and select Web from the categories and enter a project name:

Click on OK and we will see the Web template options dialog; in the previous versions of Visual Studio, templates will be in the Project dialog:

Select MVC from the template options and leave everything as default. You'll notice that there is a Create remote resources option under the Windows Azure section in the bottom-right corner of the screen, which can automatically provision a website (and database, if required) ready for publishing. We're going to do it manually to help explain how everything fits together...

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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.
Read more about Geoff Webber-Cross