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.

Please note that this is a CTP release and should not be used on production systems. Please see the EULA for more details.

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

• C# and VB Project Templates for creating a Cloud Service solution



• Tools to change the Service Role configuration



• Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services



• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric



• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages



• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal



• SSL Certificate selection