So now, I will want to update to the latest version of Visual Studio.
The Visual Studio team has been moving much
quicker on releases and updates for Visual Studio.
The updates are named, update one, update two, and update three.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to come up here.
I'm going to hit Tools > Extensions and Updates.
I'm going to click Update at the bottom, and you'll see
I have an update for both Visual Studio 2012, as well
as the NuGet Package Manager.
I'm going to install the NuGet Package Manager update first.
It'll ask me to restart Visual Studio, I'll say Yes, Install, Restart.
And then we're going to come in and we're going to update Visual Studio itself.
I'm going to download this update to my desktop.
We're going to close our browser window.
We're going to Visual Studio. I'm going to
accept the license agreement, and click Install.
You want to make sure that you always install these updates, as they'll include
additional functionality, as well as quality of
life while you're developing software for Azure.
Now that my update has been completed, I'm going to go ahead and Restart.
Now that I've rebooted, I'm going to go to the Start Menu, and open VS Express again.
I'm going to go to the top under Help, and say
About Microsoft Visual Studio Express, and will verify that we now have update three.
Let's hit OK.
Let's start a new project, and if you look under Templates for Visual Studio, you'll
see under Cloud I now have the ability to do a Windows Azure Cloud Service.
Let's go under Web and say actually say ASP.NET MDC4 Web App.
I'm going to name this, I'll click
OK, and we're just going to tick the defaults here.
And now that I have my project up and running,
the first thing you may want to change is the fonts.
So if we go under Options, and I click on Fonts and Colors,
I'm going to increase this to 14, just for this course, so that it's easier to see.
Another ability that we have in Visual Studio,
is that we can change the theme colors.
So, if I come
up to general, what's new in VS update two and three is this Blue theme.
So if I hit Blue theme and click OK you'll notice
this looks a lot like the older versions of visual studio.
So, if you're like me and you've been using visual studio for a
long time, this may be a theme that feels a lot more like home.
Let's go back and set the fonts and colors
again, now that we've switched themes, and we're going to
go ahead and we're going to run.
This will verify that IAAS is installed locally and everything is running.
My build has succeeded, and we can see we have a web server running on local host.
We're going to say Turn On Intranet Settings, and Yes.
Now that we've verified that both IAAS and Visual Studio
are running, we're going to go back to the Start menu.
You'll notice we have three additional icons.
A Command prompt,
a Compute Emulator and a Storage Emulator.
I'm going to go ahead and click on Compute Emulator.
Now, at the bottom, if I right click here,
you'll notice I can Show Compute Emulator, open this up.
And what we see here is actually a
local development environment for the Azure Compute modules.
So we'll be using this later on in the course,
and you'll actually see things come across here when we're
doing service bus.
For now, we're just going to go ahead and close this.
We also want to verify that we have the Storage Emulator installed.
So I'm going to click Start Storage Emulator, you can see it's been started.
And we're going to go ahead and show the emulator UI for that too.
So you can see now that we have local endpoints
for both Blob and Queue storage as well as Table storage.
Don't worry too much about this now but we're going to
do this later on in this course, when we cover storage.
You have everything you need to start developing with Azure now.