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Loading a Windows Azure Project from Gallery into Visual Studio 2012


I have a Windows Azure web site. I started this web site as a New -> Compute -> Web Site -> From Gallery. Once here, I chose the Orchard CMS. I have the site successfully running in Windows Azure. My challenge is, I want to do some customizations to it.

How do I get this code into my local Visual Studio 2012 instance so that I can:

  1. Make customizations to the site with Visual Studio 2012.
  2. Check it into source control so other on my team can work on it

I saw the following post: http://www.davidhayden.me/blog/installing-orchard-cms-as-an-azure-web-site. However, this only talks about opening the site in WebMatrix. I want to skip WebMatrix and go straight to Visual Studio if possible.


Solution

  • You do not need to use WebMatrix at all; another option is to just download the files from FTP and then create a VS solution and add the files you downloaded.

    From Visual Studio you can easily deploy the solution to TFS and to your azure website.

    As a side note, as of today (January 28th, 2014) the registry edit proposed by SilverNinja is no longer needed, I was able to open VS 2013 Professional from Webmatrix without editing the registry.