The paths Format is not supported exception

Question

I just installed Windowsazure SDK 1.5 and respective tools for Visualstudio 2010. But when i run the compute emulator it gives me the following exception:

Encountered an unexpected error The given path's format is not supported. at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CanonicalizePath(String path, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[] str, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionA ccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean check ForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String[] pathList, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath) at System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(String path) at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.Utility.SDKPaths.get_CSRunStateDirectory() at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.DevelopmentFabric.DevFabric..ctor() at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.CloudServiceRun.DoActions.get_DF() at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.CloudServiceRun.DoActions.DevFabric(DFComma nds acts) at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.CloudServiceRun.DoActions.ParseArguments(St ring[] args, Boolean doActions) at Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.CloudServiceRun.DoActions.ExecuteActions(St ring[] args).

What is the fix for this weird exception?

Answer 1

I fixed it. The problem was I had an environment variable that has some invalid location and when trying to parse compute emulator is failed.