To Develop a COBOL Azure Service

  1. Run Visual Studio as administrator.
  2. Open the solution for your COBOL application.
  3. In the web role project (if you have one), paint your Web page, using the Web Forms designer in Visual Studio. Add code to communicate with the worker role.
  4. In the worker role project (if you have one), add the code to communicate with the web role and with your business logic. To handle queues, you might need code to:
    1. Create request/response queues
    2. Add info to queues and send requests
    3. Receive the response from the queue and pass it back to the business logic
    To handle table storage, you might need code to:
    1. Create the table context
    2. Initialize the table
    3. Get a queryable object
    4. Handle the table data