Applied for the Windows Azure Live services CTP and received your token, but can't find the download? You're not alone. Following the download links for me, even after I received and entered my token, took me in a circular loop. That is, it took me into a loop until I actually started to create a Live-enabled cloud app. Dariusz Parys blogs about this issue, and how to actually get the download links to work in this blog post. Thanks, Dariusz ......
I ran across this issue while automating a particularly complex build. It turns out the C++ project was being built twice during the automated build. Ensuring the build only ran the C++ project once fixed up my problem.
Hope this helps anyone struggling with this combination of issues.
For anyone who still hasn't seen the announcement, the January 2009 CTP for the Windows Azure tools were released. See the official blog post here. Go grab the latest bits and start leaning Azure today.
As a followup to my post about serialization funkiness between WCF and Peoplesoft, I wanted to post what svcutil.exe command I used to mimic the built-in behavior of the "Add Service Reference" behavior in Visual Studio 2008. Contrary to Visual Studio 2005, the Add service reference command in Visual Studio 2008 does not use svcutil.exe, but rather it's own built-in functionality. Using a comparison reference between the two and my own analysis of the results, I came up with the following command ......