What you'll learn

Moving a working .NET app to Azure takes more than pressing publish. You need the right account, real cloud services behind the app, a hosting target, settings that point everything at the right place, and proof the deployed app actually works. In this course, Developing for Azure in Visual Studio 2026, you’ll gain the ability to take a multi-project web application from local development to a running Azure environment without leaving the IDE. First, you’ll explore how Visual Studio connects to Azure accounts and subscriptions, and how Connected Services describes the services your app depends on. Next, you’ll discover how to connect a Blazor and minimal API solution to Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage, publish both projects to Azure App Service, and fix the configuration problems that show up on a first deploy. Finally, you’ll learn how to publish the API as a container to Azure Container Apps and verify deployments with logs and Application Insights. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Azure development in Visual Studio 2026 needed to configure, publish, and validate .NET applications from the IDE.