Migrating Applications to Windows Azure – Visual Studio 2010 Project Setup

Setting up the project in Visual Studio 2010 is very straight forward: Click File –> New –> Project, select Cloud , provide a Name and click OK.

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Next select the type of Role you want to create. For hosting both a Silverlight client and WCF services, choose ASP.NET Web Role.

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Once the Azure project is created, add a new project to the solution of type Silverlight Application.

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The Silverlight application will inform you that it is going to link to the Web Role project. This is exactly what you want. Just click OK.

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Your Solution Explorer should look something like this:

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