{"id":5015,"date":"2018-02-28T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2018-02-28T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:07:08","slug":"ufkcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-ufkcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development using Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you\u2019ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: \n\u2022Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks \u2013 like stop and start app service, view streaming logs, create storage items.\n\u2022Storage Emulator is a separate application to Visual Studio that provides a local simulation of the Azure storage services. It\u2019s really handy for testing Functions that trigger from queues, blobs or tables.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog I\u2019ll show you how you can develop Azure applications entirely locally \u2013 including the ability to interact with Azure storage \u2013 without ever needing an Azure subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you\u2019ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: \u2022Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks \u2013 like stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you\u2019re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you\u2019ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure development workload: \u2022Cloud Explorer is a tool window inside Visual Studio that lets you browse your Azure resources and perform specific tasks \u2013 like stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}