

You find the settings page in the left menu, or by selecting Edit / Settings on the top menu. SettingsĪfter you’ve installed the Storage Explorer, it is worth going through some of its settings. Usually you can just leave the defaults and complete the installation. However, since they usually also are the only users of their computers, the recommended option would probably be the best option anyway.Īfter this selection, it is just the usual license agreement, installation path and what you want to call the shortcut that will be created in your start menu.

So from that perspective, either of these modes would be just fine. Most of the developers that I know have administrative access to their computers. If you want to install for all users, then you need to be an administrator on the computer. If the computer you are installing on is used by others with their own user account, they won’t be able to use the application. The first option is to install the Storage Explorer only for yourself. When you install the application on Windows, you can select between two different modes. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Azure Storage Explorer is a free tool that you can download from the Azure website. When storage database is ready you can run your application.Summary Installing Azure Storage Explorer If database was correctly created you should see dialog like this: You can find more information about sqlinstance and other switches from DSInit documentation. If you need some other instance then run the following command:įor default instance use “.” as instance name: If you have MSSQL instance called SQLEXPRESS then it is enough to just run DSInit.

For Windows Azure SDK 1.6 the location for DSInit utility is:Ĭ:\Program Files\Windows Azure Emulator\emulator\devstoreīy default DSInit expects that your database server is (local)\SQLEXPRESS but you can change it easily. You need to run DSInit utility to create database. Please configure the SQL Server instance for Storage Emulator using the ‘DSInit’ utility in the Windows Azure SDK.". Failed to start Storage Emulator: the SQL Server instance ‘localhost\SQLExpress’ could not be found. When running some of your Windows Azure applications when storage emulator is not configured you may get the following error: "Windows Azure Tools: Failed to initialize Windows Azure storage emulator.
