With Windows Azure Tools, why do I receive Invalid access to memory location?

Question

I have the following installed:

• Visual Studio 2010
• Windows Azure Tools, v1.5
• Windows Azure SDK, v1.5

When I attempt to debug a \"W

Answer 1

I too have seen this error when attempting to debug. It appears to be when Visual Studio has problems starting the Compute and / or Storage Emulators. Starting them manually before running the application seems to do the trick.

I cannot begin to knowledgeably speculate on what causes this error, however since a lack of understanding has rarely stopped me before: my working hypothesis is that it may well be memory related since this error only seems to appear if Visual Studio (2010) has been running for a while (ie once VS's memory usage has had time to creep up).