Kentico CMS 7.0 RC Windows Azure Deployment Guide - DevNet

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Kentico CMS 7.0 RC Windows Azure Deployment Guide
2.10 Converting a web site project to an Azure application
In cases where your application is heavily modified or contains large amounts of custom code, you may
find it easier to manually convert it to a Windows Azure application, rather than using the recommended
approach described in Deploying an existing website to Windows Azure. This way, you can be sure that
nothing is left out, since you will only be adding extra items to your project.
You can use the following steps to perform the conversion process:
1. If needed, perform the upgrade procedure to the latest version of Kentico CMS. You can download the
upgrade package from the Support section of the Kentico.com website.
2. Before you can continue, it is necessary to have your Kentico CMS project in the web application
format. If your project was not installed this way, you can convert it according to the instructions in the
How to convert a Kentico CMS web site to a Web Application article published on our DevNet portal.
3. Open your solution in Visual Studio, right-click the project file in the Solution Explorer and select
Unload Project. If the solution only contains a single project, you may have to go to Tools -> Options -
> Projects and Solutions -> General and check Always show solution to make this option available.
Now right-click the project again and select Edit . Add Web
into the first element of the project file.
Save the change, right click the project in the Solution Explorer and choose Reload Project.
4. Next, Add a New Project to the solution and select the Windows Azure Project template from the
Cloud category. Specify the path of the directory containing your project files as the Location and
click OK.
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