1.
Why you'll love Windows
Azure SDK 2.0
Paul Bouwer
@pbouwer | blog.paulbouwer.com

2.
Like all of the other Windows Azure
SDKs, the Windows Azure SDK for
.NET is a fully open source project
(Apache 2 license) hosted on GitHub.
https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-net

3.
• Improved Visual Studio Publishing
• Management Support via Server Explorer in Visual Studio
• Live Streaming of Diagnostics Logs

4.
• Support for High Memory VM instances
A6 (4 core, 28GB), A7 (8 core, 56GB)
• Faster Deployment Support with Simultaneous Update
Option
• Improved Diagnostics Support
Diagnostics Configuration
View Diagnostics on Live Service
Update Diagnostics Configuration on Live Service

5.
• Visual Studio Table Explorer
Create/Delete Tables
Add/Edit/Delete Table Entities

6.
• Message Browse Support
Peek, Peek(fromSequenceNumber:int), PeekBatch(messageCount:int)
• Message Pump Programming Model
• Task Based APIs (async/await support in .NET 4.5)
• Autodelete on Idle
• Minimum duration 5 minutes
• Suspend/Resume
Disabled, SendDisabled, ReceiveDisabled, Active
• Shared Access Signatures

7.
• Web Sites
Get-AzureWebsiteLog <your website> -Tail
• Cloud Services
Set-AzureDeployment –Mode Simultaneous
• Virtual Machines
New-AzureVM
New-AzureQuickVM
PowerShell Remoting enabled by default when creating VMs via Powershell

8.
• Service Bus
Get-AzureSBNamespace
New-AzureSBNamespace
Remove-AzureSBNamespace
• Windows Azure Store
Get-AzureStoreAddOn
New-AzureStoreAddOn
Remove-AzureStoreAddOn
Set-AzureStoreAddOn

9.
• Storage
New-AzureStorageContainer
Get-AzureStorageContainer
Remove-AzureStorageContainer
Get-AzureStorageBlobContent
Set-AzureStorageBlobContent
Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy
Stop-AzureStorageBlobCopy
• Web/Worker Role Scaffolding
New-AzureRoleTemplate
Add-AzureWebRole–TemplateFolder
Add-AzureWorkerRole –TemplateFolder

10.
• WindowsAzure.Diagnostics.dll
Updated to support WindowsAzure.Storage 2.0. No more conflicts.
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 side by side
Windows Azure SDK 1.8, 1.7
• .NET 4.0
WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll, WindowsAzure.Configuration.dll and the
caching assemblies are now built against .NET 4.0
• Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server
Azure SDK 2.0 is NOT compatible at this time

11.
• Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/04/30/announcing-the-release-
of-windows-azure-sdk-2-0-for-net.aspx
• Cloud Cover #106 - Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure SDK 2.0
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-106-Scott-Guthrie-
Discusses-Windows-Azure-SDK-20
• Channel 9 - Subscribe! - What's new in the Service Bus .NET SDK 2.0
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe/Whats-new-in-the-Service-Bus-
NET-SDK-20

12.
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .Net – Taking A Second Look At Windows Azure
Diagnostics
http://gauravmantri.com/2013/05/12/windows-azure-sdk-2-0-for-net-taking-a-
second-look-at-windows-azure-diagnostics/
• What is new in Service Bus 2.0?
http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2013/05/01/what-is-new-in-
service-bus-2-0.aspx
• Task Based APIs for Service Bus
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/11/task-based-apis-for-
service-bus.aspx

13.
• New features in Service Bus Preview Library (January 2013)
http://haishibai.blogspot.de/2013/01/new-features-in-service-bus-preview.html
• http://haishibai.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/new-features-in-service-bus-
preview_27.html
• http://haishibai.blogspot.de/2013/01/new-features-in-service-bus-
preview_29.html