CloudDrive class in v1.6 of Azure Integration Components is utterly hosed

Question

You can't call any static methods or new up an instance without an exception.

I've tried running my service as LocalService, LocalSystem, and Administrator. It doesn't matter.

My VM role is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, if it makes a difference.

I'm going to test this with a console application (as Administrator) to see if the same thing happens.

Answer 1

Hi, What's the exception or error? I can not find any question in post.

Answer 2

I confirmed that the issue does not exist with version 1.4 integration components.

As it turns out, there's very little difference between the two versions anyway.

Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll is the only binary that changed between v1.4 and v1.6. The key binaries Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudDrive.dll and Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.dll did not change between versions.

Answer 3

Hi - can you provide the exception and what method you're trying to call?

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-Jeff

Answer 4

I don't recall exactly what the exception was, but I think it had to do with security/NTFS permissions. I've blown out and recreated the deployment so many times even after reinstalling v1.4 WAIC, I no longer have the exact error message handy.

Essentially, any call to a method on CloudDrive caused an exception.

Two similar issues have already been reported:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/7f69d51c-bdbf-426a-beaa-a4622c77d0e0

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/hr/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/efd8226d-ba2e-475c-9819-4e7fc10ac163

The last post in the 2nd link provides some insight, and I might try the workaround for 1.6 as noted in the post.

Answer 5

I don't recall exactly what the exception was, but I think it had to do with security/NTFS permissions. I've blown out and recreated the deployment so many times even after reinstalling v1.4 WAIC, I no longer have the exact error message handy.

Essentially, any call to a method on CloudDrive caused an exception.

Two similar issues have already been reported:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/7f69d51c-bdbf-426a-beaa-a4622c77d0e0

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/hr/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/efd8226d-ba2e-475c-9819-4e7fc10ac163

The last post in the 2nd link provides some insight, and I might try the workaround for 1.6 as noted in the post.

Workaround for v1.6 does not work. Please fix this before releasing v1.7. Even when using a differencing disk, each time we have to update the WAIC it's at least an hours worth of work.

Answer 6

Hi Atilekt,

Thank you for reporting this issue. As I posted in your other thread, this will be fixed in SDK 1.7.  In the mean time, you can follow the workaround here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh708321.aspx

Thanks
Andrew Edwards
Windows Azure Storage