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Visual Studio - Azure Government

Introducing the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
Steve Michelotti
Visual Studio has many tools that enable developers to easily interact with Azure. These are tools like the Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Server Explorer, the main Visual Studio login, and even being able to right-click in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer to deploy a web project to Azure.  However, by default, these ...

Using In-Role Cache in Azure Government

May 11, 2015 May 11, 2015 05/11/15
Art Rask
When planning the deployment of a web application to Azure Government, it is important to consider the Azure services that are currently available in Azure Government and to select the platform components your application will use accordingly.  ASP.NET web applications are, of course, a common deployment scenario.  These applications...

Using Event Hub and EventProcessorHost on Azure Government

April 19, 2015 Apr 19, 2015 04/19/15
Ryan McIntyre
(Cross-posted from http://blog.randomdust.com) There are few needs which apply to almost every industry when it comes to building software and solutions to meet the needs of that industry. Manufacturing, healthcare, industrial, education, home automation, military and public safety (to name a few) all have a need to collect data from hundreds/...

Connect Visual Studio to MS Azure Government

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15
SteveK-MS
Update: For the latest documentation on connecting via Visual Studio.  Check out the Azure Environment Selector for VS 2017! The Visual Studio (VS) IDE is a powerful development tool. Coupled with the massive list of development tools it provides, Visual Studio also allows servers to be managed.  This capability provides an end-to-end ...