So tonight I wanted to take a first look on Azure.
I installed all of the stuff needed :

• IIS7  (under Vista Ultimate 32bit on my machine)
• WindowsAzureSDK-x86.msi
• VSCloudService.msi
• SDK.msi (Microsoft SQL Server Data Services SDK)

So I fired up VS2008 and started a new Web Cloud Service:

To check if all worked out, I pressed F5.. And first saw this:

So OK, let’s restart VS2008 under Administrator rights (“Run as Administrator”) and I pressed F5 again.. I then first saw this:

And after pressing YES I saw this error appear:

What the heck?! It’s using my Username (which is “Robert Jan” as a parameter to initialize the development storage. Fine of course, but please Microsoft, USE QUOTES when doing this! Because now, it stating that “Jan” is an unknown option…

So why not try to initialize this storage ourselves and we’ll use DSInit with the quoted username (and prefixed with the domain name or local machine name):

And the result:
 

So now, I can play along :)