Introduction to Windows Azure
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#### Hands-On Lab

# Introduction to Windows Azure

Lab version:2.0.0

Last updated:9/15/2011

### Contents

### Overview

### Exercise 1: Building Your First Windows Azure Application

Task 1 – Creating the Visual Studio Project

Task 2 – Creating a Data Model for Entities in Table Storage

Task 3 – Creating a Web Role to Display the Guest Book and Process User Input

Task 4 – Queuing Work Items for Background Processing

Verification

### Exercise 2: Background Processing with Worker Roles and Queues

Task 1 – Creating a Worker Role to Process Images in the Background

Verification

### Exercise 3: Publishing a Windows Azure Application

Task 1 – Creating a Storage Account and a Hosted Service Component

Task 2 – Publishing the Application to the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal

Task 3 – Configuring the Application to Increase the Number of Instances

Task 4 – Testing the Application in the Staging Environment

Task 5 – Promoting the Application to Production

### Summary