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
Exercise 2: Background Processing with Worker Roles and Queues
Task 1 – Creating a Worker Role to Process Images in the Background
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
