Why I need to upgrade from Azure 1.3 to 1.8

it is same as asking why should i use windows when DOS can still be i

Hi,

Good analogy, vishalishere. You can compare what's new from this page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff683673.aspx

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going forward you will not be able to deploy new cloud services using older SDK versions, or at least you'll not be able to get support for:

WINDOWS AZURE SDK POLICY

Windows Azure Cloud Services will support no fewer than the latest two SDK versions for deploying new Cloud Services.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/azure-cloud-lifecycle-faq

Good Analogy Vishal ,Surely there are lot of additional features avialbale in SDK 1.8, most of them are development tools. Could you please explain what are the inside advanatges for SDK 1.8 rather than SDK 1.3?

Hi,

First I should say the new version of sdk is 2.0, not 1.8. So if you want to upgrade sdk, please update to 2.0 directly. It is hard to say what is new or different feature or advantage between 1.3 and 1.8 (2.0). You know many versions between them. Between each version we don't change a lot. We may fix some bugs and issues in the new version and update some new library (the biggest change is the storage library). Also we provide more support on some preview services in sdk. You can know about them in my above link from each version changes.

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