Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory V2 Visual Tools in Public Preview

After releasing Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) in public preview in September, Microsoft has recently followed up with the announcement of a public preview of new visual tooling for the fully managed cloud-based data integration and ETL service. However, for the September release of the service Visual tooling was not available, making it a manual process to create ADF v2 components and pipelines. The recent release of the visual tooling brings the service more in line with the previous version. The tooling is web-based and is launched in the Azure portal from within the deployed Azure Data Factory. To support copy activities and offloading of computing tasks, there is an additional type of Integration Runtime component that is either Azure-based or Self-Hosted.