Prerequisites

Prerequisites

1. An account on GitHub : github.com
2. An active Microsoft Azure subscription.

If you do not already have a subscription, sign up for a free trial)

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or 2013.

If you do not have Visual Studio, this workshop is compatible with Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web [download].

1. Azure SDK 2.4 : Download from azure.microsoft.com/downloads

SDK for Visual Studio 2013 [Download]
SDK for Visual Studio 2012 [Download]

1. Node.js : Install from nodejs.org
2. A command-line Git source control client.

We recommend GitHub for Windows [download], though TortoiseGit [download] should also work.

The Git functionality built in to Visual Studio is insufficient for this workshop.

1. A text editor that understands opening a directory in the file system.