Ready for deployment

It's time to play in the Windows Azure Developer portal once again. We're going to give it all the information needed to get our cloud project up and running in Windows Azure.

Let's go to our Hosted Service and see what we have there.

This looks nice and easy. What did we come here to do? The answer is to deploy our cloud project. And how are we going to do that? If you are thinking we should click on the Deploy... button, then you're absolutely correct. Go ahead and click the Deploy... button to begin deployment.

The next step is also fairly easy. Remember the files that Visual Studio created for us when we published the cloud project? We're going to need them here. Both files were created in the solution's Bin folder, under the release configuration named folder (Debug, Release, etc.), and in the Publish folder. The first file we're looking for is the Application Package file, or the .cspkg file. The Configuration Settings file is the .cscfg file.

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