Publishing a LightSwitch Application to Windows Azure

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Want to know how to publish a LightSwitch Application to the Azure Cloud?

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 can be used to publish your app directly to Windows Azure with storage in SQL Azure. This blog post condenses many steps one would typically have to go through to deploy an application to the cloud manually.

See how to deploy a LightSwitch web application with Forms authentication to Windows Azure and SQL Azure.

This walkthrough assumes that you already have a Windows Azure subscription and basic knowledge of Windows Azure. If you do not have a subscription, you can sign up for an account here. The sign up page will explain different pricing models as well as a Free Windows Azure trial!