The Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is designed to help .NET developers easily build on Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows. A screen capture taken from a YouTube demonstration shows the plug-in in action.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and cloud computing provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) has launched the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, enabling .NET developers to easily build on Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows.
The Visual Studio integrated development environment is used by 6 million .NET developers worldwide, and is designed to simplify the entire development process from design to deployment of rich applications for SharePoint and the Web.
According to its Wednesday announcement, the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides a unique set of tools for developers to deploy applications written with Visual Studio tools directly to Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure, which provides a highly scalable environment for developing, testing, and hosting applications. The toolkit provides users with a single cloud management portal, reducing deployment and provisioning time.
“Rackspace has again demonstrated it is a key player in the cloud by providing the entire MSDN community and all .NET developers a way to quickly develop, deploy and manage cloud applications written in a development environment familiar to them,” Microsoft developer division corporate vice president Scott Guthrie said in a statement. “This effort highlights the openness of Visual Studio and Microsoft’s unique position within the cloud computing ecosystem, as both a partner to other cloud providers and a cloud provider itself. The Rackspace Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010 toolkit is intended to help with developers looking for an easier way to deploy their applications, websites and blogs to the cloud.”
The toolkit for Visual Studio 2010 was developed by Microsoft-certified solutions provider Neudesic (www.neudesic.com) to eliminate the need for managing separate cloud and application environments by providing developers a full view of their environment.
In turn, the new plug-in provides a new level of abstraction not possible without integration. This reduces overall complexity and errors, and gives developers full visibility of their cloud server instances while they are developing or deploying an application.
Additional application programming interface features of the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010 include the ability to launch, reboot and fully control all servers, rebuild servers from images and create custom images, schedule application backups, upsize and scale server configurations as needed, and manage and share IP addresses.
Available through a single-download to Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows users, the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010 provides .NET developers with a variety of templates and plug-ins that effectively make the developer platform a one-stop-shop for total cloud deployment and management.
“We’re committed to making development for the Rackspace Cloud as easy and intuitive as possible, and nothing makes more sense than giving developers the ability to manage their cloud from within the Visual Studio platform they’re already so accustomed to,” said Pat Matthews, VP and GM of Cloud, Rackspace. “By partnering with Neudesic and Microsoft, we hope to help the vast MSDN community streamline and simplify its deployment and management of applications on the cloud. This new toolkit will eliminate the need to toggle back and forth between the development platform and a separate cloud management panel, and save developers precious time.”
Those interested in using the Rackspace Cloud Plug-In for Visual Studio 2010 have to establish a Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows account and then follow the steps to download the kit.
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