Azure SDK July CTP - Multiple web and worker roles

Today, Microsoft released the the Windows Azure SDK July CTP update. Details of the release, along with the download link, are here. The SDK works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.

One of the great features in the July CTP is support for multiple web roles and worker roles within a single cloud service. This will offer more options for deploying your Azure project, as you can now choose whether to host each role in its own instance or combine them into a single instance.

Along with this feature is a reworked Cloud Service project creation wizard. Here's what the new Wizard looks like when creating a cloud service project:

There's no longer multiple cloud service projects to choose from. Now it's a single cloud service project.

Once you select the project template, you'll see the "role wizard" page:

At this point, you can drag web and worker roles into your project. Drag a bunch of roles over - nice! Also, you can edit role names before they're added to the project. Take a close look at the selected role on the right side below - see the edit tool?

Just click the edit tool and you can change the role name inline.

When you're all done adding your roles, your Visual Studio solution will look something like this:

You can add more web and worker roles later simply by right-clicking the Roles node and adding a new Web role or Worker role to the project.