Upgrade to Azure 1.7 now connecting to different dev storage

Question

I have just upgraded to the Azure 1.7 sdk and have now lost the contents of my devstorage.

I can still see it in the local instance of sqlexpress (as DevelopmentStorage20110606), but when I use UseDevelopmentStorage=true, it longer connects to this.

Where has the new development storage db gone? I need to import my data from the previous version, as we use local storage for testing on the build server and have test data setup on it, or is there an upgrade script to be able to port this data accross.

Thanks

Answer 1

SDK 1.7 now uses IIS Express (compute) and SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB (storage). You should be able to point your emulator to your existing database by running dsinit.

Michael Collier talks about the 1.6 vs. 1.7 differences in his post, here.

More information about LocalDB is here.

DSInit documentation is here.