Debugging a Cloud Service locally with either Emulator or Emulator Express

As Cloud Services are more like a black-box runtime about which we don't (and shouldn't) need to know anything. However, we should know how they behave different from (or according to) a common IIS installed on a common Windows Server virtual machine.

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The very first versions of Cloud Services had strict restrictions on the interactions with OS, permitted by applications. They had to run in a mode called Microsoft Azure Partial Trust, which isolated an application from the underlying operating system, to prevent the defects and bugs in the code from causing failures in the entire OS. Today, there is no longer an option to isolate an application as a result of developers' ...

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