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Rosana Rufer
Rosana Rufer

Reputation: 599

I can't access a queue from local Azure Storage Emulator nor from VisualStudio, nor from Azure Storage Explorer

I need to send messages through an Azure Queue and I need to test it using the Windows Azure Emulator, which says to be correctly running. These are the steps I went through:

1- Running the Windows Azure Storage Emulator (I tried both 2.0.0 and 3.2.0 versions) Making sure the emulator is running:

2- Code:

        string azureStorageConnectionString = "UseDevelopmentStorage=true";
        string queueName = "queuetest";

        CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(storageConnectionString);
        CloudQueueClient queueClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
        _queue = queueClient.GetQueueReference(queueName);
        _queue.CreateIfNotExists();

3- I Got two different problems with each one of the WAS Emulator versions.

-Problem A: On the line _queue.CreateIfNotExists(); got a uri not found exception (404) because it couldn't find the queue, with the uri: 127.0.0.1:10001/devstoreaccount1/queuetest

-Problem B: When I upgraded the WAS Emulator the exception was gone (So upgrading was solution to problem A) but the Azure Storage Explorer wouldn't access the Developer Storage Account and gave the following message:

Windows Azure Developer Storage is not runnign.
The process DSService.exe is not detected

So, in summary, I fixed problem A but now I can't access DevStorage Account by using Azure Storage Explorer.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2865

Answers (1)

Rosana Rufer
Rosana Rufer

Reputation: 599

A mate gave me an astonishing solution. You need to create a VisualStudio project called DSService, place it anywhere in C: and containing the following code:

namespace DSService
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Now I can create, insert messages and access the DevStorage account queue using Azure Storage Explorer... :-0

Update:

As Gaurav Mantri said, you should use VisualStudio 2013 tools to see the content of your DevStorage account.

Upvotes: 2

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