The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.DataFactory error

Question

Going through this tutorial "Create a pipeline with Copy Activity using Visual Studio" and receiving this error when I hit publish.

Creating datafactory-Name:VSTutorialFactory,Tags:,Subscription:Pay-As-You-Go,ResourceGroup:MyAppGroup,Location:North Europe,

24/03/2016 11:30:34- Error creating data factory:  

Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudException: MissingSubscriptionRegistration:  

The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.DataFactory'.

Error not mentioned anywhere on the net and very little help/knowledge on azure generally on the web. 

Answer 1

• There is a resource provider for every functionality in Azure. Azure Subscription is not registered with all resource providers. In your case, your subscription is not registered with Microsoft.DataFactory resource provider, this is the reason for the occurrence of this error.

• You need to register your subscription manually with a resource provider. If you are Azure PowerShell user, you can make use of Register-AzureRmResourceProvider Cmdlet.

• Syntax: Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.DataFactory