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Yesterday I released an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone. There are a few important updates in this release, so I encourage you to go and download the new tools. We have a number of significant updates: Upgraded Windows Azure projects to Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...

I am tremendously pleased to share that today we have released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android! We announced our intentions to build a toolkit for Android back in May, and it had always been our intention to release this summer (we only missed by a week or so). In addition to this release of [...

The v1.2 release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS includes support for Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS).  The enables iOS developers to create applications that can use and rely on federated identity providers such as Windows Live, Google Accounts, and Facebook Connect.  This...

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. The toolkit works in two ways – the toolkit can be used to access Windows Azure storage directly, or alternatively, can go through a proxy service known as the Cloud Ready...

Today we released an update to our Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS that provides some significant enhancements – in particular, we now provide support for using the Windows Azure Access Control Server (ACS) from an iOS application.  You can get all the bits here: (updated) watoolkitios-lib (updated...

Last night we released an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. This release is a minor update that includes the refactoring of code for better conformance to standards, some bug updates, and a few additions to the sample application.  You can take a look at the updates in each of the three...

At this point I’m sure you’ve heard that the Windows Phone Developer Tools for "Mango" released today (also called the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta).  To learn about these tools I suggest you review the following: Download & release notes: Windows Phone Developer Tools for...

One of the most common requests I’ve received for the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 has been a tutorial for deploying the services to Windows Azure.  It’s taken longer than it should have—my humblest apologies—but I’ve finally put one together.  You’ll need to follow the following...

Today’s release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (v1.2.1) has two important updates: Support for Visual Basic Bug fixes You can download the latest drop here: http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/releases/view/61952 Visual Basic When we released on Monday we did not include updated project...

Here it is – the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2! As I mentioned last week when I spoke about Updates Coming Soon to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, we have some really important and valuable additions to the toolkit. Support and tooling for the Access Control Service 2...

I’ve been really pleased with our delivery cadence for the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.  We first launched (v1.0) on March 23, 2011 – this launch included VS project templates, class libraries for storage and membership services, a sample application, and documentation.  We had...

At MIX11 we released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.1.0, which included out-of-the-box support for the Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) for Windows Phone. The MPNS provides an efficient way for an application to register itself for updates that are pushed directly to the phone...

I am extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS! This first release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications.  As with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows...

I have just published a short screencast that demonstrates how to get started with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.  This toolkit is designed to make it easy to build phone applications that use cloud services running in Windows Azure. In this screencast you will learn: Where to download...

I am tremendously excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.  This toolkit is designed to make it easier for your to build phone application that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure.  Our team has been diligently working on this toolkit for...