Windows Azure SDK and Tools Refresh!

Today we released refreshes to both the Windows Azure SDK and the VS Tools for Windows Azure!

• Windows Azure SDK (this has the dev fabric and local storage stuff)
• VS Tools for Windows Azure (this has the templates and integration functionality to connect to the local and live environments for developing Windows Azure applications using Visual Studio)

What's hot in the new refresh?

Well, first we fixed a pesky little problem with VS hanging when you hit F5. For some customers, this ended up locking up the environment and you had to kill VS to get it all sorted, this is a huge fix.

We also fixed the limitation of using special characters in entities, which affected some update or delete operations.

There have also been a bunch of performance fixes, so the overall user experience feels a lot nicer compared to the PDC release.

There's quite a bit more in this release, however I only mentioned the issues that affected me most, I'm selfish like that (I'm sorry, please don't judge me).

So get cranking and download the new version, you won't be disappointed (especially me, since tonight is pizza night too!!).

Enjoy :)

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2009
  So does it install on Win7 Beta now?

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  January 15, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 15, 2009
  So with the new release of our SDK and VS Tools and the recent release of Windows 7 Beta , some folks

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  January 15, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 16, 2009
  Hey, I can not install SDK on Windows 7. Got "Must be running Server 2008 or Vista" error message. Everything is 32 bit. Any ideas. Thanks Boris

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2009
  こんにちは！ 毎度お馴染み、フォーラム オペレーターの服部清次です。 (^^) いよいよ、あと約 1 時間で World Baseball Classic (WBC) 第 2 ラウンドの韓国戦が始まりますね。