January 2009 Azure SDK and Tools CTP

 

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
• Windows Azure SDK

What's new in the Tools?

• Addressed top customer bugs.
  • Resolved hang and performance issues on run and debug.
  • Fixed issue with "Publish" of large projects.
  • Fixed issue with "Create Test Tables" when both the web and worker role reference the same assembly
• Added support to debug Silverlight in a Web Role.
• Better storage services integration
• Error messages when there are Service Configuration or Service Definition errors

What's new in the SDK?

• Addressed top customer issues
  • Space in user name
  • Development storage may fail with a fatal error if the user name includes a space character.
  • Concurrent GetMessages requests to the Queue service may return the same message.
  • The DevTableGen utility may fail when passed the same assembly name on the command line more than once.
  • Development storage may fail to update or delete entities that contain special characters like these: '- $ & + , : ; = @'.
• The Windows Azure SDK offers improved support for the integration of development storage with Visual Studio, including enhanced performance.
• The StorageClient sample includes the following improvements. For more information, see the StorageClient Sample topic in the Windows Azure SDK help file.
  • The StorageClient sample now offers an optional exponential backoff retry policy.
  • The StorageClient sample now supports production endpoints that include the account name.
• The ASP.Net Providers sample now supports a search syntax similar to the ASP.Net SQL-based providers. For more information, see the ASPProviders Sample topic in the Windows Azure SDK help file.