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 had this exception today while testing my worker role locally. Turns out that you can get this exception message pop-up from the Azure Storage Emulator when you specify a local "data"-folder that's too large for your machine.

In my case I had a ConfigurationSetting "DataDirSizeMB" set to "256000" (256GB!) in ServiceConfiguration.Local.cscfg, when my machine only had a 111GB HD... After I changed the setting to just "100" (100MB) everything worked locally :D

Be sure to check all settings so that the Local.cscfg is configured for local-use, and the Cloud.cscfg for Azure-use.