Visual Studio not finding my Azure subscriptions

Question

I have a working Azure account with various services already running. I receive monthly bills for these.

Now, I created a workerrole in Visual Studio that I want to

Answer 1

In my case, I just had to log in to VS using the sign in button in the upper-right corner. Attempting to log in to Azure via the Cloud Explorer window while not being signed in to VS itself will apparently yield the "No subscriptions found" message.