Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles

This is a follow up to the previous blog entry I wrote pertaining to Windows Azure Roles. I wanted to cover the bases on the various technical aspects of creating a Windows Azure Web Role & Worker Role in Visual Studio 2010. Without interruption let’s just dive right in. Start Visual Studio 2010 and initiate a new project. File, new, and then project will open the new project dialog.

Windows Azure Project Select a cloud template type and name your project. Click OK and the New Windows Azure Project Dialog will appear to select the role types you can choose from.

Windows Azure Project Templates Select an ASP.NET MVC Web Application, name it appropriately, and then click OK. When prompted for a test project select yes and click OK. When the solution is finished generating from the chosen templates there will be a SampleWebRole ASP.NET MVC Web Application, the test projec