14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released a new update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit, a collection of resources designed to provide insight into Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit April Update is a natural response to the evolution of additional developer tools that can be leveraged in the context of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform.
More specifically, the software giant kicked the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit up a notch to keep up the pace with the Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio 2010.
The company released Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM for Visual Studio 2010 recently, and started offering version 1.4 of the software development kit for Windows Azure last week.
The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit April Update now offers no less than three new hands-on labs as well as Windows Azure AppFabric portal demos. Check below for a complete list of changes.
Windows Azure SDK 1.4 went live in mid-April providing devs with a refresh designed to simplify the iterative development process associated with building Cloud services.
Microsoft highlighted “some of the specific changes with the April update of the training kit includes:
•[New] Authenticating Users in a Windows Phone 7 App via ACS, OData Services and Windows Azure lab
•[New] Windows Azure Traffic Manager lab
•[New] Introduction to SQL Azure Reporting Services lab
•[Updated] Connecting Apps with Windows Azure Connect lab updated for Connect refresh
•[Updated] Windows Azure CDN lab updated for CDN refresh
•[Updated] Introduction to the AppFabric ACS 2.0 lab updated to the production release of ACS 2.0
•[Updated] Use ACS to Federate with Multiple Business Identity Providers lab updated to the production release of ACS 2.0
•[Updated] Introduction to Service Bus lab updated to latest AppFabric portal experience
•[Updated] Eventing on the Service Bus lab updated to latest AppFabric portal experience
•[Updated] Service Remoting lab updated to latest AppFabric portal experience
•[Updated] Rafiki demo updated to latest AppFabric portal experience
•[Updated] Service Bus demos updated to latest AppFabric portal.”
Windows Azure Platform Training Kit April Update is available for download here.
Windows Azure SDK 1.4 is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM ISO and Installer are available for download here.