Step by step: Your first Windows Azure website in Visual Studio 2010

Issues:
- You might need to have SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or later installed
- I don’t know what happen if you already have the Windows Azure Tools installed
- You probably need admin rights on the computer…

1. In Visual Studio 2010 create a new project, choose Cloud Service and then double click the Enable Windows Azure Tools

1. Takes you here:

1. Click the button “Download Windows Azure Tools”

1. Now press “Download” and then choose run.

If you want you can read the whole page but some common things might be handled in this article

1. This error might not come up for you but did for me:

The Windows Azure SDK requires Internet Information Services 7.0 with ASP.NET Application Development components installed.

To solve this on Windows 7 and Vista go to programs and features

Hint: Press: “Windows Key” and write in “programs and” (then you will see the right start menu item) and if you are fast on the keyboard this is always a quicker way.

Then, in “programs and features” press “Turn windows features on or off”

Check the boxes for ASP.NET and CGI under Internet Information Services/Application Development Features (the rest will be checked automatically, at least in windows 7)

Press OK, and then restart the Windows Azure Tools installation from step 4, if the window in Visual Studio 2010 is white, you can close the active “tab” as the window with the download button is behind. Then find the link “If your download does not start after 30 seconds, click this link: Start download.” To start the download again, and press again run and cross your fingers.

1. If you manage to come here, you will click trough the installation, and also close down Visual Studio 2010 to be able to continue the installation.
2. If the setup was successful you need to start Visual Studio 2010 again but do it in elevated mode (run as administrator) as you cannot test the website without it.
3. Sadly you need to create a new project (I call mine CloudService2), so choose again to create a new cloud service project and then choose the most appropriate version for you. I will stick with the C# “ASP.NET Web Role” but feel free to use something else (but you are on your own)
4. Now your project is created and you get up these files in the solution explorer
   

 

1. Right click on Roles and add “New web role project” and then ASP.NET Web Role in the appropriate language for you… I name it “WebRole1″ and then press Add
   

    

2. Now things looks a bit more familiar and you can see the new WebRole1 in the solution explorer:
   

    

3. If the default.aspx is not opened already open it up and in HTML view add some text like: “This page is running Windows Azure”

    

4. Press F5 to run & debug the project, then you should get up this one:
   

    

5. Press ok and you should get some notification:
   

    

6. And voila! You now should see something like this:
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Tags: HowTo, Windows Azure