New Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Announced

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Today at the BUILD conference they announced a lot new things, but for Windows Azure developers you’ll want to check out the announcements on the Windows Azure Team Blog.

A couple of big things to take note of in my opinion are:

  1. Better simulation of the cloud environment in the emulators.  It has been re-architected and updated.
  2. Release of the SDK 1.5 for Windows Azure AppFabric which includes a slew of updated features for the Service Bus that have been in the labs for a while.  Things like the distributed eventing and intra-app messaging.
  3. The management API got several new enhancements including rollback of in-progress updates and deployments.
  4. Geo-replication is now enabled for BLOB and Table storage!

There a lot more involved as well.  I’ll hopefully be getting to some blog posts around the new features soon.