Preparatory work:
Windows Azure can only run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. Windows 2003 and XP are not currently supported. Yesterday installed Win7, is going to try to write an Azure applet, the program is very simple, to achieve a simple picture upload and search function, I study the Microsoft's Azure platform, the following is my software environment.
Operating system: Windows 7
Development tools: Visual Studio2010 rc,windows Azure SDK, Windows Azure Tools
First step: Install the Windows Azure SDK
To first determine that your operating system meets your requirements, Visual Studio can be either visual Studio2008 or Visual Studio2010. Download the Windows Azure SDK at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=772990da-8926-4db0-958f-95c1da572c84&displaylang=en
Once your installation is successful, you will have more Windows Azure SDK v1.1 on your computer, as shown in the following figure:
Start development fabric and development stroage:
Display Configuration Interface:
Development Fabric: