
So to check the possible input parameters navigate to the path in Command Prompt and give DsInit /. The idea behind this error is, the DsInit utility needs some input parameters to process the request. Server was not found as shown in the screen below Just double click on the utility will open a wizard to prepare for the solution, but we can see an error in that process itself indicating that the database will not be created since

We can see an error now as “ Windows Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage” as shown inĪs the error itself mentioned to use the DsInit utility from the Azure SDK, navigate to the path as shown in the screen below and we can see the Utility as highlighted in the screen below. Once we made the changes hit F5 to build and execute our application to see the end result locally before deploying to the cloud. Now a new application will be opened and do some changes as per our requirement as shown in the screen below. In our sample we will select the normal web role(ASP.Net Web Role) and click on OK button as shown in the screen below To download the Azure SDK and install the same) and give a project name as shown in the screen belowĬlicking on the OK button will populate a window to select the role as shown in the screen below Select the Cloud tab (left side menu) and click on Azure Project (If by any chance if you see Enable Azure then you need Open Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Navigate to File –> New Project we can see the new template window as shown in the screen below. Let us see the step by step process on how to produce this issue and fix the same in Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment(though the fix is same across the environments as Today when i opened my new environment (Windows Server 2008 R2) and started my first application in that environment it stopped me whileīuilding with an error as “ Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage“Īfter checking some resources then finally got a solution on how to fix this issue. This error is specific to starting Azure Storage Emulator on packaging the Azure application to deploy it to the cloud.

In this article we are going to see a real time error fix on initializing Azure Storage Emulator: Unable to Start Development Storage Error.
