The table top guide for getting started with Azure

Bruno's Blog - Understanding Azure Tools – The Real Starting Point

“The real starting point

I am writing this blog to help the very beginner in all of us. I started writing on the "Thumbnails" example, but found all the talk about "blobs" and "queues" was too fast. Also, the documentation is at the "conceptual level." I always like starting from scratch when learning something. I love seeing things like "File – New – Project."

Goals

We are interested in creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.

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Lots of pretty pictures (screen shots, etc), setup links and a step by step guide to help those of us who’ve not yet taken the Azure development plunge get started.