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SetUp Fixture for NUnit starting the emulator before tests
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace AzureTableStorage.Tests
{
// Start/stop azure storage emulator from code:
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7547567/how-to-start-azure-storage-emulator-from-within-a-program
// Credits to David Peden http://stackoverflow.com/users/607701/david-peden for sharing this!
public static class AzureStorageEmulatorManager
{
private const string _windowsAzureStorageEmulatorPath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator\WAStorageEmulator.exe";
private const string _win7ProcessName = "WAStorageEmulator";
private const string _win8ProcessName = "WASTOR~1";
private static readonly ProcessStartInfo startStorageEmulator = new ProcessStartInfo
{
FileName = _windowsAzureStorageEmulatorPath,
Arguments = "start",
};
private static readonly ProcessStartInfo stopStorageEmulator = new ProcessStartInfo
{
FileName = _windowsAzureStorageEmulatorPath,
Arguments = "stop",
};
private static Process GetProcess()
{
return Process.GetProcessesByName(_win7ProcessName).FirstOrDefault() ?? Process.GetProcessesByName(_win8ProcessName).FirstOrDefault();
}
public static bool IsProcessStarted()
{
return GetProcess() != null;
}
public static void StartStorageEmulator()
{
if (!IsProcessStarted())
{
using (Process process = Process.Start(startStorageEmulator))
{
process.WaitForExit();
}
}
}
public static void StopStorageEmulator()
{
using (Process process = Process.Start(stopStorageEmulator))
{
process.WaitForExit();
}
}
}
}
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace AzureTableStorage.Tests
{
[SetUpFixture]
public class StartStopAzureEmulator
{
private bool _wasUp;
[SetUp]
public void StartAzureBeforeAllTestsIfNotUp()
{
if (!AzureStorageEmulatorManager.IsProcessStarted())
{
AzureStorageEmulatorManager.StartStorageEmulator();
_wasUp = false;
}
else
{
_wasUp = true;
}
}
[TearDown]
public void StopAzureAfterAllTestsIfWasDown()
{
if (!_wasUp)
{
AzureStorageEmulatorManager.StopStorageEmulator();
}
else
{
// Leave as it was before testing...
}
}
}
}
@bcaraway
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thank you for this!

@SeanFeldman
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Thank you. Windows 10 process name has changed to AzureStorageEmulator

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