Understanding Azure Resource Explorer

I will write my first article related to Windows Azure, I believe if you are new to Windows Azure you should search for Windows Azure articles on this website. Microsoft recently launched a new website called Azure Resources Explorer, if you have a Windows Azure account then you can easily access the website, https://resources.azure.com/

The following screen will show what it looks like.



The purose of the website

Microsoft wants people to learn and understand the Azure API very well. The website is divided into two parts, there is a tree in the left and right hand side. You can see a description of the Azure API in JSON data format, API full path and documentation.

To understand it in more details I created the website http://armexplorer.azurewebsites.net/. The URL may not work after a few months because of Azure rules you can create a demo website in your Azure account in the Azure Subscription.

The following is a screen shot:



That shows how you can view your Azure website in Azure Explorer.

JOSN on the bottom will display the entire details of the website, this will display all the properties of your website and the decimations tab will explain the JSON documentation in details.

How to start/stop your website from the Azure resources explorer

Now returning to the second tab.



You can start and stop your website from here. Any action available on your website will be displayed here and you can work from that.

How to Edit Web configurations and Meta data from the Azure Resources Explorer

All you need to do is nothing except to check the configurations file. Click on the Edit button and then simply add your page and click on the PUT button.



How to create a new website in your Azure account from the Azure Resources Explorer

To create a new website in your Azure account from the Azure Resources Explorer all you need to do is open the site's properties and click on the third tab Create, suly the website name (I am adding the name “Createarmexplorer”) and location West US and server name. Right now my server name is “Default1” and click on the put button and you are done.



Search Box: At the top of the website you have a search box, suppose you have 1000 websites in your Azure account and you want to explore them. Then you can type into the search box and it will redirect you to that website directly.



Conclusion

The moto of the website is to learn and understand the Azure API in details. Understand the Azure API documentation.

The preceding project is being developed as Open Source and is hosted on GitHub here.

Details article must be available by Sir Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingAzureResourceExplorerForTheAzureResourceManagementAPIs.aspx

Five minute YouTube David Ebbo video by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye9eOYRK3jE#t=19