Azure Storage Emulator error and does not start
Check if you are running BitTorrent/uTorrent or similar software using port 10000.
Check Steve Marx' blog post about the issue. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-storage-emulator-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-is-being-used-by-another-process
In case that post disappears, the command to check if any other software is using that port is:
C:\Users\smarx>netstat -p tcp -ano | findstr :10000 TCP 127.0.0.1:10000 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 3672
Summarizing and adding additional points to other answers to this question.
Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator\AzureStorageEmulator.exe file in a notepad or a notepad++ editor.Look at the services section.
<services> <service name="Blob" url="http://127.0.0.1:10000/"/> <service name="Queue" url="http://127.0.0.1:10001/"/> <service name="Table" url="http://127.0.0.1:10002/"/></services>Try to open URL for "Blob" in a web browser. In my case it is
http://127.0.0.1:10000/If you are unable to open the URL or if there is a error, this is the reason why you are not unable to start Azure Storage Emulator.
Try below steps to resolve the issue.
1) Check if the port 10000 is busy or used by any other process.
To know this you can type the below command in the command prompt
netstat -na | find "10000"Kill the process.
Now start the Azure Storage Emulator in -inprocess mode
In the Azure Storage Emulator's command prompt type
AzureStorageEmulator.exe start -inprocess
Ctrl+c and then
AzureStorageEmulator.exe start
If this did not resolve the issue try second step.
2) Run this
netsh http add iplisten 127.0.0.1and then in the Azure Storage Emulator's command prompt type
AzureStorageEmulator.exe start -inprocessCtrl+c and then
AzureStorageEmulator.exe start
I have same issue after Azure tools update (2.3 version). After hours of research I found strange solution - set 'Start Windows Azure storage emulator' to 'False' (in properties of Azure project).