Comments on: Windows Azure: Why is my service not starting?

By: SLT-A65

SLT-A65 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:30:40 +0000

it will be the perfect blog page for anyone who wants to know about this subject. You know a lot its practically difficult to argue with you (not that I really would want…HaHa). You absolutely set a whole new spin on a topic thats been written about for years. Fantastic things, just excellent!

By: Guy Shahine

Guy Shahine — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:37:26 +0000

Unfotunately you cannot use multiple configuration files and publish within visual studio today. I recommend that you use the configuration file that’s associated to your service within your service for local deployment and testing. And maintain different configuration files for different environments (this would prevent you from publishing from Visual Studio). I know that it’s not too convenient and that every time you need to add or remove a config setting, you’d have to update multiple files, that’s true and I wish there was a better support out of the box.

By: CodeGrue

CodeGrue — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:30:43 +0000

Can you elaborate on how to have separate configuration files? When I add the -local, -staging, -production and build, I her the error “Only one service configuration file per Windows Azure application project”.

By: Guy Shahine

Guy Shahine — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:59:19 +0000

A nice post on troubleshooting deployments from the Windows Azure team is posted on the MSDN forum, found here: http://bit.ly/cc1yaw

By: Guy Shahine

Guy Shahine — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:53:14 +0000

Axel, Thanks for pointing that out. A well formed connection string should look like:

Setting name=”MyCloudStorageAccount” value=”DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystorage;AccountKey=[mystorage key]”

NOTE: You cannot use HTTP as your default endpoint protocol for pushing diagnostics.

If you’re using Visual Studio then the Windows Azure tools have a nice UI to populate the connection string.

For more detailed example, take a look at the Windows Azure Storage team blog post: http://bit.ly/alZuji

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:13:39 +0000

What about posting a screenshot of an actual populated .cscfg config file that actually works, instead of showing us the wizard-generated one that does not?

After 4 hours of investigations, I still don’t know how my configuration file is supposed to look, and how a well formed diagnostic and storage connection string should look…

Thanks

By: gshahine

gshahine — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02:23 +0000

My pleasure Steve

By: Steve Woods

Steve Woods — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:46:53 +0000

Guy,
thanks for solving *endless* frustration for me on this one. There are about 30 other posts on the topic that I went through prior to yours, and it turned out my mistake was using the wrong storage account name (used the storage service name not the account name). Thanks for clarifying, very helpful!
Steve

By: Bill Zack

Bill Zack — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:46:46 +0000

This could be the beginning of an Azure debugging FAQ.

By: Emmanuel Huna

Emmanuel Huna — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Nice posts, great tips.