Apache Storm went to GA on HDInsight yesterday, and the latest Azure SDK has Visual Studio integration for creating Storm applications. You can select the Storm Application project template: And that creates you a basic topology with a simple spout and bolt. You can publish that new project to Azure from Visual Studio (right-click the project in Solution Explorer and select Submit to Storm on HDInsight), and verify it's all working correctly from the Storm Topologies view: But there's a gotcha if ......