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Learn foundational Microsoft Azure concepts and develop essential skills as a C# developer. This course covers AI, hosting, storage, and monitoring services to build basic Azure solutions.

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This beginner-level course targets C# developers who want to develop their Microsoft Azure skills. It provides foundational knowledge of the key Microsoft Azure concepts needed for every developer and explains foundational services used in the AI, hosting, storage, and monitoring areas. 

After completing this course, you’ll be familiar with foundational Microsoft Azure concepts and will be able to build basic Microsoft Azure solutions.

Master Azure: Build Microsoft Azure Solution with C#

In this chapter, we've applied our understanding of Microsoft Azure to practical use, through which we have delved into:

- **Project overview:** We've come to understand the purpose and architecture of our project, which leverages a variety of Microsoft Azure services such as Azure SQL, Azure Functions, and Cognitive services.
- **Preparing your development environment:** We've learned to build our project in an Educative development environment.
- **Creating the Microsoft Azure Cognitive service:** We've gained knowledge on creating the Microsoft Azure Cognitive service for integration into our image-description project.
- **Building the front-facing API:** We've learned to construct the image describer API with Azure Functions.
- **Creating Microsoft Azure Storage account:** We've learned the process of creating a Microsoft Azure Storage account for image storage.
- **Updating the code to add images to Storage account:** We've learned to modify the API code to facilitate image storage in the storage account.
- **Creating the Microsoft Azure SQL database:** We've learned the steps to create a database within Microsoft Azure.
- **Updating the code to store in Microsoft Azure SQL database:** We've learned how to amend our code to ensure data storage within the Azure SQL database.
- **Creating Function app to host the API:** We've learned how to deploy the image describer API to an Azure Function App.
- **Deploying and monitoring our API:** We've learned the procedure to deploy our API to Azure Function app and the ways to monitor it using Application Insights.

Reflect on the essential concepts covered in this chapter.

Review of Building Your First Microsoft Azure Solution

Introduction to Microsoft Azure

Key Microsoft Azure Services for Developers

Building Your First Microsoft Azure Solution

Wrap Up

Appendix

Review of Building Your First Microsoft Azure Solution