Build your startup on Azure. Part 2: Creating and publishing the project

This is the second blog post in a "Build your startup on Azure" series. You can find the first one here.

The app we're going to build needs just one Web API controller which handles data requests, and a static website based on bootstrap starter kit.

For JsonStorage.net I'll use DocumentDB (yes, one more Azure service) as a back-end storage, It has native .NET API and provides awesome performance - just take a look at a latency graph:

Provisioning ASP.NET development environment - Chocolatey and internal file shares

When people hear the word "provisioning", they usually start thinking about creating virtual machines in the cloud, deployment with Sitecore PowerCore, etc. But it can be also applied to the developer workstations.

For example, for a typical ASP.NET application development, you'll need a machine with:

1. IIS and related OS features
2. Git, TortoiseSVN, etc.
3. SQL Server
4. Visual Studio (with extensions)

The first one is easy, you can manage windows features using PowerShell, read more about it here.

Typical script may look like this: