title: How to speed up Azure deployment from Visual Studio 2010
body: <p>I have <code>Visual Studio 2010</code> solution with an <code>Azure Service</code> and an <code>ASP.NET MVC 3</code> solution that serves as a <code>Web Role</code> for the Azure service. No other roles attached to the service other than that.</p>
  
  <p>Every deployment to the Azure staging (or production, for that matter) environment takes up to 20 minutes to complete, form the moment I click publish on Visual Studio until all instances (2) are started.</p>
  
  <p>As you can imagine this makes it a PITA to publish often, or to quick-fix some bugs. Is there a way to speed the process up? Would it be faster to upload the package to de Blob storage and upgrade from there? How would I go about achieving that?</p>
  
  <p>I feel on-line docs on Azure leave a lot to be desired. Particularly when it comes to troubleshooting by the way.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>