Azure documentation and samples

In this section, we’ll talk about the Azure documentation and samples, including where you can find them and how you can contribute bug fixes, changes, or even entirely new articles and samples to the Azure community.

Documentation

The Azure documentation can be found at http://azure.microsoft.com. This is the conceptual documentation, which explains the services, how they work, how to use them, and so on. The reference documentation is on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com). For example, the documentation for the REST APIs is on MSDN, and it shows every command and all of their options.

All of the conceptual documentation at azure.microsoft.com resides on GitHub. You can contribute to the documentation by adding articles or modifying articles to include information you believe will be helpful to others. To view the contributor guide and the current documentation, please go to https://github.com/Azure/azure-content.

Samples

In addition to the documentation, there are many Azure samples to help you get started with Azure, also stored in GitHub. For example, Azure Storage has getting-started samples for .NET and Java for Blob storage, Table storage, Queue storage, and File storage. You can use these samples to help you, and you can also contribute to this repository. These samples can be found here: http://github.com/azure-samples.

For the Resource Manager resources, there is a repository of quick start templates available here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates. This has templates for creating many resources such as the Azure Content Delivery Network, Azure Key Vault, virtual machines, virtual networks, and storage accounts.