Azure Compute Emulator will not start

Question

I have recently upgraded to the new Azure SDK (September 2011 v 1.5).

Ever since I have not been able to start the compute emulator. Consequently I can't debug the services on my local machine.

I have seen a suggestion that the problem lies with the fact that my user account has a space in it, so I renamed my account but that didn't make any difference. It may be that the problem is that my user profile path has a space in it. Changing the account name has no effect no the profile path.

On the msdn forums it was suggested that I remove *:808 binding in IIS Manager for Default Website. See MSDN Forums

Anyone have any other ideas?

Answer 1

Another option:

So, given the "rename your user account/regedit doesn't work for you, you may want to look at this MSDN article, which suggests you can just set an environment variable and run the emulator without mucking with the registry... not sure if setting the environment variable globally would let you run automatically within VS.NET without manually starting up the emulator the first time, but it is certainly easier.