It’s a pain that every time that I want to start a Windows Azure application locally, I must first start Visual Studio and start the debugger. In this post I will describe how to start an application in Windows Azure Compute Emulator without using Visual Studio debugger. This will work for an application that is a Web Role or Worker Role. There are multiple ways to do this, but I believe this may be the simplest.
In this post I will start from the very beginning of creating a new Windows Azure Cloud Service project and creating a default ASP.NET MVC 4 website. If you want to skip all the setup and get to the meat of csrun, then scroll to the bottom of the post.
Things Needed
- Visual Studio 2012
- Windows Azure SDK
Let’s get started.
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