Quoted: Shoutomatic uses PHP, .NET, and Java in the cloud, and I use a Python script locally to set up the storage account. I should warn you now that actually building and deploying from the source code I’ve shared is tricky… you’ll need to download a number of dependencies. Let me know if you’re trying this and the instructions aren’t clear.

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Windows Azure MSDN Forums

Quoted: Today we released refreshes to both the Windows Azure SDK and the VS Tools for Windows Azure ! Windows Azure SDK (this has the dev fabric and local storage stuff) VS Tools for Windows Azure (this has the templates and integration functionality to connect

Windows Azure MSDN site.

Quoted: Windows Azure is the cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides you on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications and services in Microsoft data centers.