t h e D a v i d A i k e n » Busy http://www.davidaiken.com Not Statistically Significant Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:04:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Remember to update your DiagnosticsConnectionString before deploying http://www.davidaiken.com/2010/05/28/remember-to-update-your-diagnosticsconnectionstring-before-deploying/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.davidaiken.com/2010/05/28/remember-to-update-your-diagnosticsconnectionstring-before-deploying/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 22:47:03 +0000 theDavidAiken http://www.davidaiken.com/2010/05/28/remember-to-update-your-diagnosticsconnectionstring-before-deploying/ In the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file, you have a DiagnosticsConnectionString which as a default is linked to local storage.

    <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" />

When you deploy your package it will never start correctly (stuck in Busy/Initializing), because you could will be trying to log to the local storage, which doesn’t exist in the cloud.

Fixing this is easy:

  1. Create a storage account if you don’t already have one.
  2. In Visual Studio, bring up the properties of your project, then click settings.
  3. Click on the … next to the DiagnosticsConnectionString.image
  4. Enter your storage details in the dialog.image
  5. Save then deploy.

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