Additional Tools

With the growing diffusion of Windows Azure, lots of tools are coming out. Particularly there is the need for tools for managing the Storage Account, especially when you need to manage files in the blog storage both locally and online. Two tools are free: The first one is an add-on from Microsoft for the Windows Management Console, enabling managing files in the blob storage and queues located in this space on the MSDN Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuremmc. The last section in this chapter shows an example of using this tool for managing files and using them. The second tool was developed by me and published onto CodePlex, named WPF Client for the Windows Azure Blog Storage, an open source WPF application written in Visual Basic located here: http://azureblobclient.codeplex.com/.