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Windows Azure – A Couple of Learnings

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Today I’ve been playing around with IE8 Accelerators and using Windows Azure as the hosting mechanism. As usual I bumped into a few obstacles so here’s a quick summary of progress so far:

  1. The Development Storage Integration expects you to have SQL Express installed. I haven’t.
  2. The Azure Development Fabric doesn’t work on the current Windows 7 Beta. I’m running Win7 as my OS.

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You can work around both of these issues of course but YMMV.

  1. Here’s how I got the Development Storage to use my SQL Server 2008 install
  2. For the Dev Fabric you have a few options.
    1. Use a different (non-Win7) machine
    2. Use a non-Win7 VM running in Virtual PC or Virtual Server on your Win7 host
    3. <ugly>Just suck it up, assume everything will be okay and do a manual publish, deploy cycle. This is less than optimal when it comes to debugging or indeed, simply iterating through a few different versions. It’s sloooow</ugly>

Guess what? I went with the ugly option.

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