Microsoft has released Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 today.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 RC to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK. (For VS 2010 Beta 2 please use the November...

Here is your gift from Microsoft for the holidays: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines with Sample Data. Brian Keller writes

Just in time for the holidays, we have posted a brand new virtual machine (VM) which is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and sample data that you can use to help learn the product, perform demonstrations, etc. This VM included everything you need to learn and demonstrate the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (with the excep...

Time for a short post. A couple of weeks ago I made A windows server 2003 VM for VMWare on my VMWare Workstation 6.5. Nothing very difficult, jst download the image from MSDN mount the image in something lik Virutal clonedrive and start installing. Everything worked just fine, installing was a breeze.

But it kept crashing on me. SOmetimes it would run for a day sometimes for a few hours other times for a couple of days. Very weird. Nothing in the log files, nothing on goolge that made sense. And it crashed really hard too. Reboot kinda of hard. No I won't let you kill the process k...