Visual Studio Tools for Azure Developers

Learn how to develop Azure projects with the Azure-specific tools in Visual Studio.

Introduction

• Develop your projects with Azure tools from the Visual Studio IDE
• What you should know

1. Connections and Explorers

• Server and cloud explorers
• Connect Visual Studio to your Azure accounts
• Work with Actions and Properties in Cloud Explorer

2. Web Projects

• View web apps in Azure App Service
• Create web projects on Azure App Service
• Publish a local project to Azure App Service
• Edit the web project

3. Work with Data

• Connect to Azure SQL Server
• Edit database tables
• Tour Cosmos DB on the Azure portal
• Work with Cosmos DB
• Tour Azure Storage on the Azure portal
• Work with Azure Storage

4. Work with Azure Resource Groups

• Tour Azure Resource Groups
• Create a Resource Group project
• Add an Azure service template

5. Azure Functions

• What are Azure Functions?
• Create Azure Function App in Visual Studio
• Examine C# code for the Azure Function
• Test Azure function in Visual Studio
• Publish the function to the portal

6. Monitor and Debug

• How the Snapshot Debugger helps debug production code
• Snapshot Debugger concepts
• Use Snappoints in Visual Studio

Conclusion

• Next steps