There is a new release for Windows Azure today with a refresh of the Windows Azure SDK (1.1, February 2010) and the Windows Azure Visual Studio Tools (1.1, February 2010). If you want code samples, as usual, go to Windows Azure Code Samples on Code Gallery.
UPDATE: So as not to mislead; If you are using Visual Studio 2010 only on your system the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC which is not yet released. But with Visual Studio 2008 you are safe.
The biggest news in there is that you can now begin to use the new Windows Azure Drive (aka. xDrive) which allows a Windows Azure application to mount and use a file stored in Windows Azure Blog Storage as a standard external hard drive. This enables drive intensive server applications to be portable to Windows Azure.
The release also includes OS Version Support which allows a Windows Azure application to choose the appropriate Guest OS to run on in the cloud.
Hurry up and download – you want the latest tools don’t ya? ;~)
Cheers,
M.
P.S. Thanks Per for pointing out this release for me today.