There a number of ways to interface with Azure
Websites including Web Matrix, PowerShell, X-Plat and even Visual Studio. This
is handy as Visual Studio can be directly integrated with your Azure
subscription so that you can publish your web applications and sites seemlessly
from the Visual Studio IDE environment.
You must first install the Microsoft Azure Tools
for Visual Studio. Please note that you need to have the Web Developer Tools
installed for Visual Studio.
Just to test this integration I simply created a
new application from one of the templates from the wizard. Click Tools
and then Connect to Microsoft Azure Subscription.
You will then be prompted for your Azure
subscription details, enter them and you should be able to expand Azure
from the Server Explorer. If you have already created an Azure Website
expand Websites and right click on it and select Download Publish
Profile.
From the Solutions Explorer window you can right
click on your project and select Publish. If you have not already Build
the site and effectively compiled it, this option will be grayed out.
Click Import.
Browse to the Publish Settings file you
downloaded in the earlier step.
Review the settings and click Publish.
