Initialize Windows Azure Storage Emulator

We use windows azure storage emulator when we need to test and deploy our application which is use windows azure storage services locally in our computer. We can use SQL Server 2005 or 2008 to integrate with windows azure storage emulator. I tried to run my windows azure project at the first time on my computer but I got some error with windows azure storage emulator initialization when I run it. Visual Studio can't initialize windows azure storage emulator!



It happened because there is no initialization of Windows Azure storage emulator on our computer at the first time when we used. Initialization means creating new database in our SQL Server as storage emulator. To fix this problem, we can manually initialize Windows Azure storage emulator from Windows Azure SDK command prompt under Windows Azure SDK folder in windows start menu.



From Windows Azure SDK command prompt home directory, go to \bin\devstore directory. After that runDSInit /sqlInstance:<sqlServerInstanceName> or DSInit /sqlInstance:. for initialize default SQL Server instance in our machine.



It will open new windows which is shows Windows Azure storage emulator initialization process. If we still got some error in this process, we must check our SQL Server instance service whether it has start properly or not. We can also check our SQL Server connection or others.



If initialization of Windows Azure storage emulator is successful created, it will shows successful notification in windows dialog.



And we can run and deploy our Windows Azure application using Windows Azure emulator in our local machine. Thanks for reading.. :)

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