Microsoft released several new features for Windows Azure through Windows Azure Tools and SDK, that add support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2, and extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to enable creation, configuration, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. Updated and additional code samples are available online.

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Microsoft runs occasional Deep Dive events, with a small numbers of customers and partners, to help accelerate their progress building real world solutions on Azure, and providing feedback to product team. This video looks behind scenes at one of these Deep Dives, meets Microsoft folk mentoring sessions, and customers and partners building their solutions.