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Development Page, Project Designer (Windows Azure Tools)

You can specify publishing, execution, debugging, and package validation settings from the Development page of the Project Designer.

Publish Settings

These settings apply when you publish your application to Windows Azure.

Prompt before deleting an existing deployment.: If this setting is set to true, you can cancel a deployment after you initiate it if that deployment would delete an application that you’ve already deployed.

These settings apply when you run or debug your application.

Display the Windows Azure debugging environment dialog: If this setting is set to true, a dialog box appears while the emulation environment is being set up to debug your application. This dialog box shows progress as the emulators and debuggers are being configured. You can cancel the operation from this dialog box and select a check box to hide the dialog box. If you hide it, you can still see status information in the status bar near the bottom of the Visual Studio window.

Service Configuration: From this control, you can specify configuration settings for Windows Azure applications. These values correspond to service configuration files (.cscfg files), and you can specify Local or Cloud by default. The Local service configuration is used when the application runs on the local computer with the emulators that simulate the Windows Azure environment. The Cloud service configuration is used when the application runs in the actual Windows Azure environment. If you define additional service configurations, they will appear in this control as options. For information about how to rename or define your own service configurations, see How to: Manage Service Configurations and Profiles.

Start Windows Azure Storage Emulator: From this control, you can specify whether to start the storage emulator when running this project. If you set this setting to false and your application requires storage services, you must start the storage emulator manually if it’s not already running. For more information, see Accessing the Windows Azure Storage Services. You can determine whether the storage emulator is running if you point to the Windows Azure icon in the Windows taskbar or by looking for the DSSQLService.exe process in the Windows Task Manager.

These settings apply when your package is validated.

Treat warnings as errors: From this control, you can specify whether you want to deploy your application even if one or more warnings occurred when your package was validated. These warnings have codes that start with WAT. This setting doesn’t relate to any other warnings, such as compiler warnings. For more information, see Troubleshooting Package Validation Warnings and Errors.