The Windows Azure and Visual Studio teams have just released the new version of the Windows Azure SDK and the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.

New for May 2009:

  • Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
  • Update for Visual Studio 2008
  • Improved integration with the Development Fabric and Storage services to improve the reliability of debug and run of Cloud Services from Visual Studio
  • Enhanced robustness and stability

Release notes/Known issues are available here

Visual Studio 2010 compatible samples are available here

The Azure Services Training Kit is here.

There is also a training kit on Visual Studio 2010 here, and some great content on Visual Studio 2010 & .Net Framework 4.0 on the 10-4 show.

Note, .Net Framework 4.0 is not yet supported in the Windows Azure Cloud. Please see this post for more information.

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