Official release enhancements to Windows Azure Management Portal

Earlier today, we released some enhancements to the new Windows http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure Management portal." These new features include:

All of these improvements are now in the product and can be used immediately. Here are more information about them:

Service Bus management and monitoring

The new Windows Azure Management portal now supports service bus management and monitoring. Service Bus provides a rich messaging infrastructure that can be located between applications (or between the cloud and premise environments), allowing them to communicate in a loosely coupled manner for improved scale and resilience. With the new service bus experience, you can now create and manage service bus namespaces, queues, themes, propagation, and subscriptions. You can also get content-rich monitoring for service bus, queues, themes, and subscriptions.

To create a service bus namespace, you can now select the Service Bus tab in Windows Azure Portal, and then simply select the Create command:

Doing so will bring a new Create a Namespace dialog box that allows you to name and create a new service bus namespace:

Once created, you can obtain the security credentials associated with the namespace by using the access key (access key) command. This enables you to obtain the connection string associated with this service namespace. You can copy and paste these values into any application that requires these credentials: