Announcements

• Videos of the Windows Azure Sessions at Mix '09

  Jim NakashimaMSFTMonday, March 23, 2009 4:29 PM
   Links to the videos of the Windows Azure sessions (as well as keynotes and Azure Services Platform session) are available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/03/22/windows-azure-mix-videos.aspx

• Windows Azure Tools and SDK July 2009 CTP Released

  Jim NakashimaMSFTTuesday, July 21, 2009 12:07 AM

  ·         Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (includes SDK) July 2009 CTP has just been released. 
  
  What’s new in Windows Azure SDK

  ·         The Windows Azure SDK supports developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service must include at least one role, of either type, and may include zero or more web roles, and zero or more worker roles.

  ·         The new PowershellRole sample hosts the Powershell runtime within a Windows Azure role. It demonstrates a simple remote console web role as well as a worker role whose implementation is a Powershell script. The host also includes the CloudDrive sample snap-in to provide access to Windows Azure Storage from script.

  What’s new in Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio

  ·         New project creation dialog

  ·         Support for developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service may contain zero or more web roles and zero or more worker roles with a minimum of one role of either type.

  ·         Ability to associate any ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role

  ·         Support for building Cloud Services from TFS Build

  ·         Enhanced robustness and stability
  

• Windows Azure Service Management API upgrade (new versioning header)

  SriramK_MSFTMSFTSunday, October 18, 2009 4:44 PM
  We've made some minor fixes to the Windows Azure Service Management API that we launched a few weeks ago.
  
  All requests for this release will need the versioning header "x-ms-version:2009-10-01" specified. Requests that use the older version "x-ms-version:2009-08-08" will fail and code will need to be changed to use the new versioning header.
  
  There is a new version of csmanage posted that uses the new versioning header and reflects the API changes at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=windowsazuresamples&ReleaseId=3233.
  
  The actual docs for the API, as always, can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee460799.aspx. We're pushing out new docs and you should see them there in a few hours.