In this article, you will learn how to create an Azure virtual machine with Visual Studio in a few minutes.
In this article, I will demonstrate the step-by-step creation of a virtual machine with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 community version within a few minutes. Normally, when we try to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 community version on our own machine, it takes a few hours. To start, we need to create a new account or log in to our Azure account here. For this article, I am using Microsoft’s classic portal. The reason behind using this portal is, it's easy to understand for the beginners.
Thus, in a few minutes of your development, machine is ready to be used with the required tools. Moreover, it is available with 228 GB RAM and 32 CPU Cores. Once your virtual machine is ready, we can easily scale up or scale down (increase or decrease RAM and CPU cores) by choosing some options under configure tab. For changing the configuration, return back to Azure portal and go to Virtual Machines -> select your virtual machine and click on configure. Here, in this page, choose option from Virtual Machine Size. You need to be cautious in regards to which virtual machine is being used, because these will drain your available credit rapidly. Virtual machines continue to incur compute charges, if they are stopped from the guest operating system. To avoid these charges, use the management portal to stop the virtual machines or to delete them.
The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure - Second Edition