Like Day 1, there were a number of big announcements from Microsoft during the Day 2 keynote at the Build conference. The most exciting parts were the new features of Windows Azure (now “Microsoft Azure”), as that team continues to push out new features at an impressive rate.
My notes from the Day 2 Keynote are below. Just like yesterday, these are just my raw notes and it’s possible I missed or misheard or mistyped something. So back off, ok? ;)
Azure
Create, Delete, Manage Azure VMs from within Visual Studio
Enable Remote .NET Debugging on VM
Use Puppet to manage Azure VMs
Intelligent Routing with Traffic Manager
Route user to closest data center
Manage failover
Provision Azure from Visual Studio
Powershell editor in Visual Studio
Azure deployment scripts
Browser Link
2-way communication between VS and any web browser
Web Jobs
Run Background tasks
Web Jobs SDK
Free SSL certificate with every web site instance
Publish code from VS to Azure Mobile Services
Single Sign on with Active Directory
Enable Java on Azure
SQL Azure
Max SQL Database size 500GB (was 150GB max)
Automatic backups
Self-service restore
roll back db to point in time
Built-in feature. On by default
Active geo replication
Primary DB in read-write mode
Secondary in Read-only mode
In case of catastrophe, you can initiate failover
.NET and C#
Visual Studio suggests refactoring
Roslyn project is now Open Source
Xamarin can use Roslyn Compiler
New Azure Portal
Service Health
Snapshot of global health of data centers
Drill down via "blades" - flyout panels
Visual Studio online integrated into Azure portal
Team project
Automated builds
Source control
Edit code in browser (syntax highlighting)
Check in changed code
Azure Resource Manager