Azure SDK needed on on-premises server?

Question

I'm looking at exposing a WCF-service through Azure ServiceBus Relay. The service is running on IIS (Windows Server 2008 R2) on-premises.

In the samples and documentation I've found, it says that the Azure SDK is needed on the server. That is for the relay-bindings I suppose.

But is really all of the SDK needed? When I install it (Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2013) -2.2), it installs Visual Studio Express etc. Is there no way to install support for ServiceBus Relay on the server, without getting these "extra" components that I really don't need on the production server?

Answer 1

You can install the Windows Azure Service Bus nuget package.