I've been reading up on Windows Azure cloud services lately. The problem I'm running into is that the Microsoft documentation is very Visual Studio centric. The second main source of tutorials/samples are based on the PHP for Azure environment. Neither of those use case scenarios fits my needs. I have a very rough idea of the configuration files and packages involved with creating an image that is compatible with a Azure VM, but I don't want to waste a lot of time figuring out the exact syntax/setup needed to get a simple Delphi 6 EXE that waits for HTTP requests on a port and returns documents without the help of IIS. I believe that my app would be classified as that of a Worker Role providing an HTTP endpoint.
Can someone point me to a simple tutorial that can show me how to do this without bringing VS, IIS, or PHP for Azure into the discussion?
Any tips/docs on being able to do remote desktop access in this scenario would be appreciated too, if it's possible to use RDP in this case.