Announcement for Windows Azure at Build : What is new ?

In Build couple of interesting stuff on Windows Azure got announced. They are as below,

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8

Download: http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/

It helps to create Metro style applications that may harness capability of Windows Azure . This toolkit contains

• Application creation guidance
• Tooling support for Visual studio project template
• Code as reusable service and libraries

Toolkit supports

• HTML 5
• Javascript
• Net
• C#
• C++
• VB

Windows Azure SDK 1.5

Windows Azure SDK 1.5 is having updates as below,

• New Emulator for better adherence between local and cloud development
• Ability to upload service certificate to csupload.exe
• Enhance Windows Azure tools for development and debugging
• ASP.Net MVC 3.0 web roles
• Multiple service configurations in one cloud project
• Improved Windows Azure package to catch common errors

Windows Azure Storage

Updated version is having below features

• Geo replication for Azure table and BLOB. This will replicate data between two locations.
• New version of REST API to enable functionality improvements for Windows azure Blob, Tables and Queues

Windows Azure Management API

Updated Windows Azure Management API having features as below

• Ability to roll back in progress configuration updates.
• Ability to roll back in progress service updates.
• Ability to perform multiple writes operation on ongoing deployment.
• . More descriptive status for role instances
• New API method : Get Subscription

Windows Azure Marketplace

• New Windows Azure Marketplace would be available in 25 different countries
• Microsoft Translator API will be available through Market Place
• Translator can translate in 35 different languages.

Service Bus

• Improved pub/sub messaging by new features Queues
• Improved pub/sub messaging by new features Topics
• Improved pub/sub messaging by new features Subscriptions
• Improved pub/sub messaging by new features Rules
• Asynchronous cloud eventing
• Event driven Service Oriented architecture
• Advanced intra app messaging

Enjoy new Windows Azure features. 

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