Other than Credit Card required 3 month trial period are there any other approach to experience Azure development.
Something like Visual Studio installed SDK?
My gut tells me there has to be, but I can't find anything.
You can use the Azure Emulator on your local dev environment. It comes with the Azure SDK.
The current version of the SDK 2.5. You can read about it: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/12/announcing-azure-sdk-2-5-for-net-and-visual-studio-2015-preview/
and download it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44938
Most of the azure can be experienced on a dev environment. It depends on which service you would like to use. You can do a search on azure documentation and you should be able to figure it out. For example, this is how you can use Azure Storage in a dev environment.
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The requirements on the following page state that you need to install Visual Studio with Xamarin on your local TFS server to setup Xamarin CI builds:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/ci/intro_to_ci/
topography of the CI
This is a real pain. We have lots of developers that rely on our local TFS server, most of whom don't do any Xamarin development. As such, any changes are heavily scrutinized. This often leads to us not installing the latest VS/Xamarin releases, as it's considered too risky for this vital bit of infrastructure.
We could have a Windows build machine with VS and Xamarin installed, that is connected to a Mac build machine. We'd be free to update the Windows and Mac build machines regularly, without the fear of compromising the TFS server. Is this possible? If not, why not?
Thanks in advance.
That diagram can't be right. There is no reason why you'd need VS or Xamarin installed on your TFS app tier.
I think it's showing a simplified configuration where the Windows build agent is installed alongside the app tier. That is a supported setup but is never, ever recommended by anyone, for exactly the reasons why you don't want to do it.
The diagram is simplified. You don't need to install anything on your TFS server. What you do instead is to install a Build Agent on a separate machine or virtual machine.
The installation details for the TFS 2017 / VSTS build agent v2 can be found in the official visual studio documentation.
The procedure is similar for both TFS and VSTS, where you generate an access token in TFS/VSTS, then simply enter the url for the TFS/VSTS instance when running the build agent install script, along with the access token.
There are build agents for Windows, Linux and macOS, so it is up to you how you configure how iOS builds are made.
I am following a series of instructions to deploy a mobile backend using Azure Mobile Services.
As part of that workflow I get to download a personalized backend app which downloads as Visual studio solution.
It builds fine and the next step is to publish it to Azure.
Instead of seeing the choice below (Microsoft Azure App Service) I am seeing 2 different choices
Microsoft Azure Web Apps, or
Microsoft Azure API Apps (Preview).
So, I chose the closest option (Web Apps) provided and it logs me into Azure and in a box which reports existing web apps I see none.
Yet I've deployed a mobile app in the Azure portal earlier.
In some of what I've been reading online it mentions a Publisher profile. I am just a bit stumped by not getting the "Microsoft Azure App Service" choice when I go to publish my backend to the cloud.
Here is the tutorial/guide which I am following (January 2016).
Perhaps the VS/Azure integration has changed since then or maybe I've more configuration steps missing.
Azure .NET mobile backend using Azure Mobile Services
Any guidance would be hugely welcome.
At this stage I am stuck as far as what I need to do to get my mobile backend published to Azure.
You have got an older version of the Azure SDK installed. The latest version of the Azure SDK provides the Azure App Service publish dialog.
I think I've solved this for now.
I was able to download a publish profile from the Azure Console which I could import within the "publish" dialog in VS2015.
I now have the mobile app up and running in Azure.
Is it possible to automatically deploy to a Windows Azure VM after a successful build from Visual Studio/TFS?
You question is not totally clear if you are looking for a solution for Windows Azure Virtual Machines or Windows Azure Cloud Services.
Windows Azure Virtual Machines:
With Windows Azure Virtual Machine, you own your Virtual Machine and thats why you would need to configure any deployment mechanism you decide. The OS VHD deployed for Windows Azure could be the one you upload or the one you got for gallery, so there are no basic deployment services running unless someone configure them first. For example if you will choose Windows Server based Windows Azure Virtual Machines, then you can install Web Deployment Services in Azure VM, and then configure your VS/TFS to continious deploy it or you can setup FTP based services to deploy your app. This SO discussion talks more on this regard.
Windows Azure Cloud Service:
If you are looking a solution directly from VS then you can add post build scripts using Poweshell commands. This solution will not depend on TFS at all. There are a few solutions also described which are non powershell dependent as well.
Using Visual Studio and Team foundation server components you have ability to configure the combination of MsBuild and PowerShell scripts as described here and here (same as Herve).
If you are looking for a solution directly from Windows Azure TFS (Cloud Based), this article includes everything needed.
You can find some information about automatic deployment here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/continuous-delivery/
Friends. I am new to windows azure concept. Just i want to knw whether we can host my asp.net application developed in visual studio 2010 with sql server 2008 or i need to develop my application in windows azure environment?
ii). Whether they provide both hosting and storage?
if it so what are the steps to implement it as a beginner?
Please can any one suggest a clear idea about it.
This is a pretty generic question. To get started, I strongly suggest downloading the Windows Azure Training Kit which will guide you through all the basics through advanced topics.
You can absolutely run asp.net apps and SQL Server apps in Windows Azure. You'll need to think about things like statelessness, scaling, and other things that might be different from an on-premises solution. You should see these topics discussed in the training kit.
Last week, Windows Azure Web Sites was introduced - this is an extremely simple way to deploy an asp.net site to Windows Azure.
As far as "is it right to host my application in windows Azure" - that type of question doesn't fit here, as it will simply open the floor for debate.
I am trying to get the Azure SDK up and running on my dev PC and have been having some issues.
I have installed the SDK, tools for VS and am trying to run the samples. Every time I try to run the samples the Development Storage service starts and then the Developer Fabric tries to start. This is where is stops. The Developer Fabric cannot run any websites for whatever reason.
I have followed their checklist for setting up the system and there is not Event messages. I am running under Vista Home Premium with IIS 7 installed.
If you have any suggestions I would love to hear them.
It turns out my problem is a little deeper than simply Azure not working on my computer.
In order to natively debug IIS apps using windows vista (configured under the project settings) you need to have windows authentication enabled for IIS. This feature cannot be installed let alone enabled under Vista Home Premium under the guise of what home user would want such a feature.
For the average VS 2005 user this is okay there is a hotfix but for me and my fancy VS 2008 SP1 there is no solution.
After becoming supremely frustrated with this issue I posted it as the following Microsoft Connect issue.