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Windows Azure SDK 1.2

E’ stato rilasciato sia l’SDK sia gli strumenti per VS 2008/2010.

Queste l'e novità prese direttamente da MSDN:

New for version 1.2:

  • Visual Studio 2010 RTM Support: Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM.
  • .NET 4 support: Choose to build services targeting either the .NET 3.5 or .NET 4 framework.
  • Cloud storage explorer: Displays a read-only view of Windows Azure tables and blob containers through Server Explorer.
  • Integrated deployment: Deploy services directly from Visual Studio by selecting ‘Publish’ from Solution Explorer.
  • Service monitoring: Keep track of the state of your services through the ‘compute’ node in Server Explorer.
  • IntelliTrace support for services running in the cloud: Adds support for debugging services in the cloud by using the Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace feature. This is enabled by using the deployment feature, and logs are retrieved through Server Explorer.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:
  • C# and VB Project creation support for creating a Windows Azure Cloud Service solution with multiple roles.
  • Tools to add and remove roles from the Cloud Service.
  • Tools to configure each Role.
  • Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services.
  • Running and Debugging a Cloud Service in the Development Fabric.
  • Browsing cloud storage through the Server Explorer
  • Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages.
  • Deploying to the Windows Azure.
  • Monitoring the state of your services through the Server Explorer.
  • Debugging in the cloud by retrieving IntelliTrace logs through the Server Explorer.

E’ molto interessante l’integrazione con il Server Explorer che riduce la necessità di tenere sempre aperta la Windows Azure MMC (che resta comunque fondamentale per le Queue e per eseguire operazioni di test e pulizia) e l’integrazione con l’intellitrace: si possono recuperare i log dell’intellitrace direttamente dal Server Explorer e riutilizzarli nell’Intellitrace per riprodurre il flusso eseguito.

Molto comoda l’annunciata funzione di publish diretto.

Molto importante la possibilità di sviluppare in .NET 4.0 (penso soprattutto a progetti che usano Entity Framework 4 o Workflow 4); anche se per adesso non si può pubblicare un servizio .NET 4.0, lo si può iniziare a sviluppare e testare in locale….in ogni caso non mancherà molto…immagino.

Posted: giu 07 2010, 06:06 by rob | with no comments
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