Manage your Azure environment using C#

Great announcement by Microsoft yesterday. They provided the first developer preview release of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for .NET. Thanks to a fluent interface-inspired method chains in combination with IntelliSense it delivers an easy to use experience.

Here is an example:

I don’t think it can become any easier…

	Console.WriteLine("Creating a Windows VM");
	var windowsVM = azure.VirtualMachines.Define("myWindowsVM")
	.WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
	.WithNewResourceGroup(rgName)
	.WithNewPrimaryNetwork("10.0.0.0/28")
	.WithPrimaryPrivateIpAddressDynamic()
	.WithNewPrimaryPublicIpAddress("mywindowsvmdns")
	.WithPopularWindowsImage(KnownWindowsVirtualMachineImage.WINDOWS_SERVER_2012_R2_DATACENTER)
	.WithAdminUserName("tirekicker")
	.WithPassword(password)
	.WithSize(VirtualMachineSizeTypes.StandardD3V2)
	.Create();
	Console.WriteLine("Created a Windows VM: " + windowsVM.Id);

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More information:

• The announcement: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simpler-azure-management-libraries-for-net/
• The related github site: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/tree/Fluent