Developing Amazon S3 applications – Windows

 We will begin by writing S3 applications that create an S3 bucket and upload/download files to it.

Creating an S3 bucket

Let's follow the tradition of building a Hello World application on AWS. We will write a simple C# .NET application that creates a new S3 bucket on your AWS account.

The following are the steps to create an S3 bucket:

1. Open Visual Studio.
2. Go toFile | New | Projectand under Visual C#, select theAWS Sample Projects and chooseAWS Empty Project:

3. Provide a name for the project and click OK.
4. You will be prompted to provide the AWS secret key and AWS secret access key. If you already have a profile created, you can select the existing profile or create a new one by entering the credentials. Click OK when done. 

You will now see two files open: App.config and Program.cs . The app.config file is the configuration file for the application, we won't be using this file for now. The Program.cs file is the actual source code of your program. 

5. In the...