One tool that has been created for developers in the latest update of the Azure SDK for .NET (2.5), is the new section called Quickstarts within the project templates in Visual Studio:
In this section we can choose different types of sample projects, categorized into:
AppServices
Compute
DataServices
Thanks to this set of projects we are able to get in seconds fully functional examples of the services shown in the screenshots, and learn how to use MAML (Microsoft Azure Management Libraries) to create services programmatically.
Hope this helps,
Happy Quickstarts!