This is Part 1 in a series of articles about integrating VSTS, Azure Web Apps, ASP.NET applications, and Visual Studio.

If you want to publish code from your repository to Azure, the easiest way to do this is to create the account from within the Azure portal.

Log into your Azure account and navigate to the portal by clicking the PORTAL link at the top right, as shown in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 1

From the Azure portal, select

New | Developer Tools | Team project

as shown in Fig. 2.

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Fig. 2

The "New Team Project" blade displays, as shown in Fig. 3

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Fig. 3

Enter a Name to identify this team.

Click "Configure required settings" under "Account"; then, click "Create a new account" and enter a name for your VSTS Account (Fig. 4). This name must be unique among all VSTS account, because it will be used in a URL to connect to the account.

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Fig. 4

Click [OK] to close the "New Account" blade.

Review all the settings in the New Project dialog. You may wish to change the location, so that it is closer to your team members. (For me, this defaulted to Brazil, so I changed it to Central US). My completed blade is shown in Fig. 5.

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Fig. 5

Click [Create] to begin creating the Team Project.

It may take a minute or two to create the VSTS Account and a project within that account.

To view the account and project in VSTS, open a new browser tab and navigate to https://xxxx.visualstudio.com/_admin

where xxxx is the name of the account you just created. You can see my account displayed in Fig. 6.

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Fig. 6

In this article, I showed how to create a team project in VSTS and link it to Azure. In the next article, I will show how to create an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio and push that application’s code into this team project’s code repository.