Azure Emulator won't start, web role unhealthy

Question

I've got problems running the Azure Emulator, the web role gets Unhealthy status.

The problems started today after a Windows Update installed several new updates. Yesterday all worked fine.

I've tried to create a new empty Cloud Service project in Visual Studio 2015 with Azure SDK 2.7. The emulator startup dialog loads to 3/4 of the progress bar and when I look into the Compute Emulator the Web role is stated as Unhealthy.

After a while Visual Studio hangs and I have to kill the process.

I've tried the following

• Updating Visual Studio
• Reinstalled Azure SDK 2.7
• Uninstalled all previous versions of the SDK
• Restarted the computer several times

No luck whatsoever. I'm running out of ideas and would appreciate some help.

Answer 1

Solved the problem by repairing the Visual Studio installation. Works fine now.