Summary

By completing this hands-on lab, you learnt how to create a storage account and a hosted service at the Windows Azure Management Portal. Using the management portal, you deployed a service package that contained the application binaries, configured its storage and defined the number of instances to run.

You also saw how to achieve this programmatically using the Service Management API and in particular, how to use the Windows Azure Service Management cmdlets to deploy, update, and manage applications using Windows PowerShell.

As a developer, you saw how to use Windows Azure Tools in Visual Studio to publish your solution in the background, while you continue with your development tasks.

Finally, you learnt how to upload certificates using the management portal and use SSL to secure your Windows Azure application.