Chapter 3. Create Your Solution

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is."

—Jeff Atwood, writer of the blog, Coding Horror

This chapter focuses on the structure of a typical Windows Azure solution in Visual Studio, and specifically on the proposed solution structure of our fictional company, Geotopia. It not only helps you to organize your own solution structure inside the IDE, but also demonstrates how to use the online version of Team Foundation Server in conjunction with the development environment.

Since Geotopia also relies on Bing Maps, this chapter also describes how to use Bing Maps in combination with Windows Azure.

The last part of the chapter demonstrates the second prototype of Geotopia. At the end of this chapter, we will have a fully operational solution that can be deployed on Windows Azure, has Silverlight parts in it, and has...