Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET Released

The Windows Azure Cloud Computing platform has been in the big news after the platform exceeded the annual revenue of $1 billion. Today, Microsoft has been released the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET update that lets the .NET developers to build Windows Azure apps from Visual Studio with an easy and more elegant manner. The new update provides the lot of improvements within Visual Studio, for developing, deploying and managing Windows Azure apps. You can download and install the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET from the Windows Azure .NET developer center. The Windows Azure SDK for .NET is a open source project hosted on GitHub.

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Improvement in Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

The information below provides the summary of the improvements provided by Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET.

  • Windows Azure Web Sites:
    • Improved tooling support in Visual Studio for publishing apps
    • Management Support within the Visual Studio Server Explorer
    • Enable Live Streaming of Diagnostic Logs within the Visual Studio
  • Windows Azure Cloud Services:
    • Support for choosing High Memory VM Instances within Visual Studio
    • Application Deployment Support with Simultaneous Update Option
    • Improved Diagnostics Support
  • Windows Azure Storage:
    • Table Storage Explorer within the Visual Studio Server Explore
  • Windows Azure Service Bus
    • Enhanced client library with  support for browsing messages, message pump programming model and auto delete for Idle messaging Entities
  • Windows Azure PowerShell Automation
    • Enhanced version with new Automation Commands

You can see the detailed information on the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET from ScottGu’s blog post Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET.

 

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