Got Visual Studio? Your almost there! In this session we will look at how to prepare your development environment for Windows Azure. This includes required components and setting up your Microsoft Windows Azure account. Don’t miss this session to learn how to build a killer “Hello World!” application. Speaker: Brian McKeiver, Kentico MVP and Partner/Senior Developer at BizStream

1. Get set.. Introduction to Windows
Azure Development
Brian McKeiver, Kentico MVP & Partner/Senior Developer, BizStream

2. Azure Kentico Virtual Conference Agenda
Time Session Information Register
7:00 –8:00 AM PST
10:00-11:00 AM EST
3:00-4:00 PM BST
Are you ready? Introduction to Cloud Computing and Windows Azure
Speaker: Vince Mayfield, CEO Bit-Wizards
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Break
8:30-9:30 AM PST
11:30–12:30 PM EST
4:30-5:30 PM BST
Get set.. Introduction to Windows Azure Development
Speaker: Brian McKeiver, Kentico MVP and Partner/Senior Developer at BizStream
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Break
10:00–11:00 AM
PST
1:00 –2:00 PM EST
6:00–7:00 PM BST
Go…Running Kentico CMS on Windows Azure
Speaker: Thom Robbins, Chief Evangelist Kentico CMS
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Break
11:30–12:30 PM PST
2:30–3:30 PM EST
7:30 –8:30 PM BST
Deployment options for Kentico CMS on Windows Azure
Speaker: Bryan Soltis, Kentico MVP and Director of Technology and Research at Bit-Wizards
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Break
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
PST
4:00–5:00 PM EST
9:00–10:00 PM BST
Best Practices for Kentico CMS and Windows Azure
Speaker: Dominik Pinter, Group Product Manager/SaaS and Cloud
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2:30–3:30 PM PST
5:30–6:30 PM EST
10:30–11:30 PM
BST
Advanced development with Windows Azure
Speaker: Bryan Soltis, Kentico MVP and Director of Technology and Research at Bit-Wizards
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Break
4:00–5:00 PM PST
7:00–8:00 PM EST
12:00–1:00 AM BST
Common questions for Windows Azure and Kentico CMS
Speaker: Kentico Cloud and SaaS Development Group
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3. Goals
• Understand Compute / Storage / Roles
• Enable your machine for Windows Azure
development
• Build your first Windows Azure App
• Simple Deployment Example

4. Azure Compute
• Windows Azure Compute is one of the five
parts of Microsoft's cloud computing service
• Runs various types of applications

5. Azure Storage
Windows Azure Drive allows applications to mount
a BLOB formatted as a single volume NTFS VM.
– You can move your VMs between private and public
clouds using Windows Azure Drive
Storage or Data
Management
• SQL Databases
• Blobs
• Tables
• VMs

6. Azure Roles
The main difference between the two is that an instance of a web role runs IIS,
while an instance of a worker role does not
Web Role Worker Role
Azure Roles can be thought of as background process runners, almost like your own
thread in the azure cloud

7. Azure Roles in VS2012

8. Putting it all Together

9. Management Portal
Portal == Developer Console to everything Windows Azure

10. Free Car !?!
• Activate your account through MSDN
– https://account.windowsazure.com/signup
• Benefits include up to $150 in credits

11. Sign Up
Create your
Subscription Account

12. Ready to Go to Portal
Click on Management Portal

13. Portal

14. Portal Create New Site
3 options for new Web site

15. Portal Create New Service
Custom Create
SQL Server
Databases as
one example of
a Service
or
Import your
own

16. Azure Storage Account
• Since we are here, let’s create one

17. Storage Account Creation
• URL: How you access your objects in Storage
• Location: Use an Affinity Group to be in same data
center

18. Portal Networking
This is where you can link the Cloud and On-Premise

19. Portal Settings
- Powerful Diagnostics info available
- Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure
(Good Add-on Library)
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680918%28v=pandp.50%29.aspx

20. Questions on Azure Portal ?

21. Configure Visual Studio 2012
• Ensure the following first
– Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
• microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=38188
– You can use VS2010 …but it is 2013
right ?

22. Azure SDK
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 released May 2013
• 2 choices to get it
– Windows Azure site
• windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/
or
– Web Platform Installer
• microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

23. Web Platform Installer

24. NuGet Packages

25. New Project
Open up VS2012 and Create a new Project

26. Build
Make sure it works

27. Publish
• Open the Publish Wizard

28. Publish Wizard

29. Import Profile from Subscription Account
.publishsettings file

30. Publish Wizard Profile
Click Validate Connection

31. Publish Wizard Settings

32. Publish Wizard Preview

33. Push It!

34. Source Control Reminder
I don’t care which one, just use one!
…ok maybe not Visual Source Safe though

35. What We Learned
• The different areas of Windows Azure
– Compute / Storage / Roles
• How to prep your machine for Windows Azure
development
• How to create a simple Azure web site
• How to publish from dev to the cloud in just a
few clicks

36. Questions ?

37. Thank You
Email:
bmckeiver@bizstream.com
Web:
http://www.bizstream.com
Blog:
http://www.mcbeev.com
Twitter:
@mcbeev
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmckeiver