Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

New for version 1.1:

• Windows Azure Drive: Enable a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easy migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud.
• OS Version Support: Allows a Windows Azure application to choose the appropriate Guest OS to run on in the cloud.
• Numerous bug fixes

Version 1.1 supports Visual Studio 2008 and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate.  Use the November 2009 release with VS 2010 Beta 2.

Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio July 2009 CTP

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure cloud. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK.

New for the July 2009 CTP:

• Support for developing and deploying services containing multiple web and worker roles. A service may contain zero or more web roles and zero or more worker roles with a minimum of one role of either type.
• New project creation dialog that supports creating Cloud Services with multiple web and worker roles.
• Ability to associate any ASP.NET Web Application project in a Cloud Service solution as a Web Role
• Support for building Cloud Services from TFS Build
• Enhanced robustness and stability

Note this is a CTP release and should not be used on production systems.