Windows Azure

Announcements

• February 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK

  SumitMehrotraMSFTTuesday, February 02, 2010 12:05 AM

  Today, coinciding with the general availability of Windows Azure, we have released version 1.1 of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK.

   (direct link here)

  This release supports Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 RC.

   

  What’s New

  ·         Windows Azure Drive: Enables a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easily migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud.

   

  ·         OS Version Support: Allows a Windows Azure application to choose the appropriate Guest OS to run on in the cloud.

   

  ·         Bug Fixes:

  o   StorageClient: Expose account key from storage credentials, expose continuation tokens for pagination, reduce maximum buffer size for parallel uploads.

  o   Windows Azure Diagnostics: Fix path corruption for crash dumps, OnDemandTransfer now respects LogLevelFilter.

  o   VS 2010: Improved packaging performance.

  o   VS 2010: Support for linked files in Web projects.

  o   VS 2010: Support for ASP.NET web project web.config transformations.

  o   Certificate selection lists certificates from LocalMachine\My instead of CurrentUser\My.

  o   Right click on Role under Roles folder to select whether to launch the browser against HTTP, HTTPS or not at all.

  Updated and additional samples are available at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuresamples

• 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.