June 7, 2010
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 [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, Microsoft, Visual Studio
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November 24, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, feedback, Microsoft
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November 17, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, cloud tools, Microsoft, PDC, Visual Studio
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November 24, 2008
SondreB asks
I’m working on a scenario where I need to process mesh data at intervals. My concern is how I can do delegated authorization in a secure way. How and where do I store the user credentials (or their auth token) in my Windows Azure service? Is there a way of doing interval based processing [...]
Tags: cloud, delegated authorization, Live Framework, Live Mesh, LiveID, Mesh, Windows Azure
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November 18, 2008
Dare Obasanjo has written up his characteristically frank first impressions of Live Framework and how it compares to Google’s GData API. It’s a good read: Live Framework (LiveFx): Is It Microsoft’s GData or Something More?
Dare closes the article with this:
On the flip side, the client-side Live Operating Environment is a technology whose benefits elude me. [...]
Tags: cloud, Google Gears, Live Framework, Mesh, Microsoft
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November 6, 2008
Now that the PDC crowd is back home again and has had a chance to digest the mountains of information collected during the conference, we’re seeing an uptick in blog posts talking about writing apps for Live Mesh using the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Here are a few posts I’ve stumbled into over [...]
Tags: cloud, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Visual Studio
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November 5, 2008
Oran Dennison has been dissecting the new Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (“VS tools”) and raised a few questions about how the VS tools are uploading Live Mesh application files into the cloud.
“Why does VS upload files to the cloud individually instead of as one zip file?”
VS uploads individual files to the cloud because that’s what [...]
Tags: cloud, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Visual Studio
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