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3. Use the AWS Access Credentials dialog box to configure your application.
• Specify which account profile your code should use to access AWS.To use an existing profile,
click Use existing profile and select the profile from the list.To add a new profile, click Use a
new profile and enter the credentials information. For more information about profiles, see Con-
figuring Your AWS SDK for .NET Application (p. 8).
• Specify a default AWS region.
4. Click OK to accept the configuration, which opens the project. Examine the project's App.config
file, which will contain something like the following:
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="AWSProfileName" value="development"/>
<add key="AWSRegion" value="us-east-1"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>
The Toolkit for Visual Studio puts the values you specified in the AWS Access Credentials dialog
box into the two key-value pairs in appSettings.
5. Click F5 to compile and run the application, which prints the number of EC2 instances, Amazon
SimpleDB tables, and Amazon S3 buckets in your account.
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