In this article, we are going to see how we can manually test and deploy the application which we developed in Visual Studio 2012 to Windows Azure Websites using the WebMatrix tool. In our earlier article we have seen how to deploy the ASP.NET MVC application which we developed in Visual Studio 2012 to the Azure environment using the inbuilt tools and services by packaging and uploading from the Visual Studio IDE itself. So here we are going to do the manual work on deploying the application that too using the WebMatrix tool. For the beginners who are not comfortable of WebMatrix is a free and lightweight web development tool with which we can Create, publish, and maintain any website with ease. Let us see the step-by-step approach to deploy the application which we developed in our previous article using the WebMatrix tool. [more]
Open the ASP.NET MVC application, which we developed in Visual studio 2012 IDE as an administrator. Build and execute the project once to check if any dependencies are not associated in any issues or any errors as shown in the screen below: