how to navigate to an azure studio from the portal home page

Question

New to Azure and in my training some of the exercises have me logging into the portal to create a resource and then open a new tab and login into vision studio and then have to connect the resource to the studio. Why is this. Why can't I just login to the portal and then navigate to vision studio from there and make the connection. Seems weird to me that I have to open a new tab and then login again and then make the connection

Answer 1

Can you please provide a link to the training you are referring to?

Visual Studio is a desktop application so you wouldn't be opening a browser window to it. However if you're trying to use Azure Dev Box then that is basically a VM running in the cloud so creating a separate tab/window would allow you to work in the VM and bounce back to Azure Portal as needed. Note that Azure Portal and Dev Box are different services (like Azure and Office 365) so you may need to log in a second time if you don't have your browser set up to log in automatically using your MS account or if you haven't used Dev Box before.