Retrieving the properties of a hosted service
The Windows Azure Service Management REST API exposes a get hosted service properties operation that can be used to retrieve the properties of a Windows Azure hosted service and any deployments to it. The REST endpoint for the get hosted service properties operation specifies the subscription ID and the name of the hosted service. The URL can be parameterized to specify that information about all deployments in the hosted service should also be returned. The request has no payload. The response contains an XML document comprising the properties of the hosted service, as well as information on the current status of all deployments in the hosted service.
In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Windows Azure Service Management REST API to retrieve the full set of properties for a hosted service.
How to do it...
We are going to invoke the get hosted service properties operation of the Windows Azure Storage Management REST API to retrieve...