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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;New for the May 2009 CTP: &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 
&lt;LI&gt;Update for Visual Studio 2008 
&lt;LI&gt;Improved integration with the Development Fabric and Storage services to improve the reliability of debug and run of Cloud Services from Visual Studio 
&lt;LI&gt;Enhanced robustness and stability&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Release notes/Known issues are available &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203058.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203058.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#006ff7&gt;here&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Visual Studio 2010 compatible samples are available &lt;A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=150869" mce_href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=150869"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#006ff7&gt;here&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Please see &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/05/28/may-ctp-of-the-windows-azure-tools-and-sdk-now-supports-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/05/28/may-ctp-of-the-windows-azure-tools-and-sdk-now-supports-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx"&gt;this post for more information&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9642298" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/windows+azure/default.aspx">windows azure</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/windows+azure+tools+for+microsoft+visual+studio/default.aspx">windows azure tools for microsoft visual studio</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/Azure/default.aspx">Azure</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/windows+azure+sdk/default.aspx">windows azure sdk</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/azure+services+platform/default.aspx">azure services platform</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/CTP/default.aspx">CTP</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/tags/may+ctp/default.aspx">may ctp</category></item><item><title>Just released - Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/archive/2009/03/18/just-released-windows-azure-tools-and-sdk-march-2009-ctp.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9488223</guid><dc:creator>cctblog</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/comments/9488223.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9488223</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Just in time for Mix '09 - &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/03/18/now-available-march-ctp-of-the-windows-azure-tools-and-sdk.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/03/18/now-available-march-ctp-of-the-windows-azure-tools-and-sdk.aspx"&gt;new Windows Azure Tools and SDK&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;New Features:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Combined installer that installs&amp;nbsp;both the Windows Azure Tools and the SDK&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Get notified of updates when they become available&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Ability to write and debug .Net Full Trust Web and Worker Roles.&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/03/18/calling-into-native-dlls-on-windows-azure.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2009/03/18/calling-into-native-dlls-on-windows-azure.aspx"&gt;Here's a walkthrough&lt;/A&gt;.of using that functionality to PInvoke to native code.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Support for FastCGI applications running on Windows Azure.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Support for the URL rewrite module &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Support for specifying the SQL Server instance to use for Development Storage&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
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