解決Azure “Failed to start Storage Emulator: the SQL Server instance `.\’ could not be found.”

由於Windows 8不支援SQL Server 2008R2.(嚴格來說是通過.NET程式在串連SQL Server 2008R2資料庫是有錯誤)

那我不得不安裝SQL Server 2012.

當安裝完畢以後，Azure Storage Emulator啟動不了，提示以下錯誤。

The storage emulator had an unexpected error: Unable to start Development Storage..Error details: Failed to start Storage Emulator: the SQL Server instance `.\' could not be found.   Please configure the SQL Server instance for Storage Emulator using the `DSInit' utility in the Windows Azure SDK.

 

因為以前使用SQL Server 2008時，使用的instance是'.\’。而我新安裝的SQL Server 2012的instance是SQLExpress。可以通過下面的命令來解決問題。

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\Emulator\devstore>dsinit /sqlinstance:sqlexpress

 

 

下面是整個操作過程。