Silverlight - Azure projects and generating proxy

1. Keep 'useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress' section in your WCF role's web.config

2. Run one instance of VS 2010 with all the roles and start debugging.

3. While that application instance is running, open another instance of VS 2010 and goto your silverlight project, right click on reference to update the proxy references.

This has worked out very great for me. I thought I will share this to other people who are also working on similar projects.

Installing SharePoint 2010 RTM on windows 7

1. Make a folder called 'SharePointFiles' on your C: drive (C:\SharePointFiles)

2. Copy the contents of your media (CD or DVD) to this folder

3. Open the file C:\SharePointFiles\Files\Setup\Config.config (It is an xml file)

4. Add the following line

Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"

5. Save this file.

6. Run setup.exe

VS 2010 and Azure local storage utility DSInit

Looks like, by default it is configured to use SQL Server Express. You have to use DSInit utility to let it use your SQL Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise edition.

You will see the following run time error if SQL Server Express is not installed.

Windows Azure Tools: Failed to initialize the Development Storage service. Unable to start Development Storage. Failed to start Development Storage: the SQL Server instance ‘localhost\SQLExpress’ could not be found. Please configure the SQL Server instance for Development Storage using the ‘DSInit’ utility in the Windows Azure SDK.