What's New in the Windows Azure SDK 2.0 Release (April 2013)

·         Windows Azure Web Sites – Microsoft Visual Studio Tools now includes support for diagnostics, management, and simplified publishing for Windows Azure Web Sites. The Visual Studio Server Explorer has added support for Web Sites. Server Explorer enables you to list, manage, and configure settings on your web site. The process of publishing to a web site has also been simplified.

·         Windows Azure Cloud Services Diagnostics – Visual Studio Tools support added for configuring and viewing diagnostics data on a live service without re-deploying. For more information, see What's New in the Windows Azure Tools.

• Cloud Services – Added support for newly-available high memory A6 & A7 Windows Azure Virtual Machine sizes; you can now deploy a cloud service to the high memory A6 & A7 Virtual Machine sizes. For more information, see Virtual Machine and Cloud Service Sizes for Windows Azure.
• Windows Azure Storage services- New Cloud Service project templates now reference Storage Client Library 2.0 by default. Visual Studio Server Explorer now has rich support for performing CRUD operations on table entities while also adding support for creating and deleting tables in the Windows Azure Table service from within Visual Studio.
• Windows Azure Service Bus – Updated the client library with support for browsing messages, the event-driven message programming model, and auto-deleting idle messaging entities. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn198643.aspx.
• Guest OS Upgrade- Guest OS upgrades from OS Family 1 or 2 to OS Family 3 are now supported. Note that applications targeting OS Family 3 have a minimum requirement of Windows Azure SDK version 1.8 and .NET Framework 4.0.