Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Testing the Application Locally

When you run an Azure application locally for the first time, the environment needs to be initialized. Fortunately Visual Studio and the Windows Azure SDK will do the work for you. The first thing you notice is that the tools generate a new database on your machine; this is required for storing blobs, tables, and queues. This step also reserves local ports for reaching the previously mentioned contents locally. You can see this when you press F5. The Windows Azure Simulation Environment is started, and a dialog shows the progress of the database generation and IPs initialization, as represented in Figure 40.6.

Figure 40.6 Completion of the Simulation Environment initialization.

This also creates a local developer ...