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Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio – June 2010 Release

Danny Thorpe — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:57:26 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that the June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio is now available for free download!

New features in this release:

Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM
.NET 4 support – You can now build your Windows Azure web apps and services using either .NET 3.5 or the new .NET 4.0 platform.
Cloud Storage Explorer: browse the tables and blobs in your Windows Azure account from within VS
Built-in Deployment: deploy your project to the Windows Azure cloud from within VS, with detailed status info every step of the way
Service monitoring: monitor the status of your services in the cloud using the new ‘compute’ node in VS Server Explorer
IntelliTrace support for debugging cloud service activity, with automatic log retrieval. Requires VS 2010 Ultimate and .NET 4.0

More info on Jim’s blog post

Enjoy!

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Vote For What You Want Added to Windows Azure

Danny Thorpe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:46 +0000

Mike Wickstrand of the Windows Azure team has created a Windows Azure Feedback Forum to solicit feedback from you about what sorts of things/features/services you would like to see Windows Azure provide. You can enter your own suggestions and vote for the features that you want the most. This feedback will go directly to the Windows Azure product planning team to help them determine where we should be focusing our energies next.

Check it out!

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Windows Azure at PDC09

Danny Thorpe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:26:18 +0000

Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for cloud-based applications, just rolled out a major update to sync with PDC09. We of course also rolled out a major update of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio in the same push. Jim Nakashima and others will be showing our latest tools at PDC09 this week.

Windows Azure Tools also received coverage on Soma’s blog – woot! Soma is Senior Vice President, Developer Division, and my nth degree boss’s boss.

While Jim is out working hard at PDC, back at the ranch we’re taking advantage of the calm following the PDC prep and product release storm to get a head start on the next round of features for Windows Azure Tools.

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Live Mesh Wins “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” Crunchies Award

Danny Thorpe — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:00:29 +0000

Microsoft’s Live Mesh was awarded top honors in the “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” category at the Crunchies Awards on Jan 10, beating out other nominees in the category including Facebook Connect and Google Chrome. Live Mesh is a file sharing application that enables users to access their data from a variety of devices, while online or offline.

The Crunchies awards are determined by popular vote of the general public. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Congratulations also to my colleagues at Cooliris for winning the “Best Design” Crunchie for the Cooliris (nee PicLens) 3D immersive browser extension! Well done!

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Getting Started with Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio

Danny Thorpe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:53:47 +0000

In looking back at yesterday’s post on Windows Azure and Live Framework Tools I suddenly realized I didn’t provide any links to content about the VS tools I work on! Let’s see if we can remedy that…

Live Framework SDK and Tools (dev.live.com)

Getting Started using the Live Framework Tools (msdn.microsoft.com)

Cloud Computing Tools Technology Page (msdn.microsoft.com)

Keep in mind that the Live Framework SDK CTP release is currently available only to PDC attendees. Additional developers will be added to the CTP in the near future. If you want in, be sure to register on the waiting list on the first link above.

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