Setup Visual Studio 2015 Preview Quickly Via Azure

Microsoft announced Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 Preview (Visual Studio 2015) Preview last week at the Connect() conference in New York City. The world was watching the event and jaw dropping announcements were made by Microsoft, that tops technology websites. One of the important announcements was VS2015 Preview, that I couldn't resist trying. VS2015 has awesome features, so there are the following two options to get it.

Option 1

Download VS2015 and install it in your machine, please refer @Manish Tewatia detailed article on the same, please visit:

• What is New in Visual Studio 2015

This will install VS2015 in your local machine, so you need to invest time and sacrifice some GBs on your drive.

Option 2

The other option is to install it quickly within a few minutes, please read on.

Note: you can skip Step1 if you already have an Azure account.

Step 1: Get you Azure (Microsoft cloud) account

Currently, Azure is offering a free one-month trial with $200 to spend on all Azure services.

FAQ: Azure Free Trial FAQ.

Goto URL: Free one-month trial.

• Click “Try it now”.
  
  
  
  
• Sign in with you Microsoft account ID otherwise click “Sign up now”. Please skip the following step if you have a Microsoft ID.
  
  
• Sign up now will take you to the following page, furnish details:
  
  
  
  Important Note: During Azure account creation, it'll ask you for credit card details and a verification code will be sent to your registered mobile number. Please keep things ready with you.
  
  
• Once your account is created in Azure, you can access your Azure dashboard.