Windows Azure

Windows Azure Software Development Kit (March 2009 CTP)

Wely — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:30:30 GMT

The Azure Services Platform is designed to help developers quickly and easily create, deploy, manage, and distribute web services and applications on the Internet. Windows Azure is an operating system for the cloud that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers on-demand compute & storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft data centers.

Windows Azure is elastic, flexible, and interoperable. With Windows Azure developers can achieve high levels of service availability and application interoperability while maintaining freedom of choice.

The Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the tools and APIs needed to develop, deploy, and manage scalable services in Windows Azure.

New in March 2009 CTP

Support for developing managed full trust applications. This includes support for calling native code via Platform Invocation Services (P/Invoke) and for spawning native processes.
Support for developing FastCGI applications.
Support for rewrite rules via IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module.

Windows Azure Software Development Kit (March 2009 CTP) - X64

Wely — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:28:42 GMT

Support for developing managed full trust applications. This includes support for calling native code via Platform Invocation Services (P/Invoke) and for spawning native processes.
Support for developing FastCGI applications.
Support for rewrite rules via IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (March 2009 CTP)

Wely — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:26:13 GMT

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK.

Azure Services Kit (April 2009)

Wely — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:24:28 GMT

The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The April release includes the following updates:

New Presentation for SQL Data Services
2 additional hands-on labs for WIndows Azure PHP and Native Code support

This technical content covers services including: Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services.