Mete Atamel

If you’re a .NET developer, you’re used to managing cloud resources right inside Visual Studio. With the recent release of our Cloud Tools for Visual Studio, you can also manage your Google Cloud Platform resources from Visual Studio.

Cloud Tools is a Visual Studio extension. It has a quickstart page with detailed information on how to install the extension, how to add your credentials and how to browse and manage your cloud resources. In this post, I want to highlight some of the main features and refer to individual how-to pages for details.

Last week, we introduced new tools and client libraries for .NET developers to integrate with Google Cloud Platform, including Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET, a set of new client libraries that provide an idiomatic way for .NET developers to interact with GCP services. In this post, we’ll explain what it takes to install the new client libraries for .NET in your project.

Google Cloud Dataflow provides a unified programming model for batch and stream data processing along with a managed service to execute parallel data processing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform.

Once a Dataflow pipeline is created, it can be tested locally using DirectPipelineRunner, and if everything looks good, it can be manually executed as a job in Dataflow Service by triggering DataflowPipelineRunner or BlockingDataflowPipelineRunner with Apache Maven or Dataflow Eclipse Plugin. You can monitor the progress of your submitted job with Dataflow Monitoring Interface from Cloud Platform Console or Dataflow Command-line Interface from gcloud.