I'm not quite sure anymore who was first (doesn't really matter anyway) but I just noticed Luke from the F# team recently posted an MSI that will install an F# Worker Role template that will work against our CTP bits. You can find Luke's post with the...

Check out the first release to extend to our set of "Role" projects one can use for developing Windows Azure services. Vikas , a PM on the Windows Live Developer Platform team, just posted the details on their latest release. It includes instructions...

Yesterday I spoke to two folks trying to get the Windows Azure SDK and our tools working on Windows 7. Unfortunately, we've found that there's something around the time when you try to run your Azure service locally that fails. The right folks are looking...

Our team, the Cloud Computing Tools team , is responsible for the bits I've been talking about so far but our team is also responsible for delivering the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. Here's a link to his post and be sure to check...

Steve Marx has shared out a link to the Windows Azure Gallery . If you've got a cool app that you want to share and already received a token (i.e., you can deploy your app), feel free to submit it to the Gallery.

Jim, our team's PM, points to the Hands On Lab walkthroughs folks have been getting through at the PDC. Here's a link to the details. If you didn't get a chance to do it at the PDC (either because you saw the lines and didn't have the time or you're not...

If you weren't able to attend the PDC or did but missed any of these keynotes/sessions, the video streams for some are already up and actually really good quality (go Silverlight!). I'll update the links as they come on live but for now feel free to check...

The Cloud Computing Tools DevCenter is now up here. You can check it out here . As always, any comments/feedback are welcome.

Today was a great day for those of us working on the project . I feel lucky to have the opportunity to be in attendance at the PDC to watch our bits in action in several of the sessions (including the first demo of the keynote today) but also to get a...

My last post was well over a year ago. Since then, after shipping VS 2008, I moved to a small new team working on some bits that will be announced and made available next week at the PDC. Good times indeed. Pretty sure that also means this blog will start...