Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop.
LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to quickly build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure. LightSwitch creates Silverlight applications that can run in the browser, out-of-the-browser, or in the cloud. You can also use Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate to extend and customize your application even further.
The first beta of LightSwitch will be publicly available on August 23.
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Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch
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.
Microsoft has announced the business model and pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
Windows Azure has a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.
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