Connection String error while using ADOMD.NET to connect to Azure Analysis

Question

I am trying to retrieve data from Azure Analysis Services using ADOMD.NET from a deployed model in cloud. The code snippet is as below, but i am getting an error that the Co

Answer 1

Turns out that this issue is due to the RTM version of AdomdClient not actually supporting the RTM version of Azure Analysis Services. As a result, the following Nuget Package is required:

https://github.com/ogaudefroy/Unofficial.Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient

Once you remove / uninstall the version 12 ( the RTM version ) of Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.12.0.2000.8 and install the above AdomdClient everything works just fine. In short, the v12 version doesn't have the code built in to parse asazure:// Data Sources

Highly annoying with no documentation on Microsoft's site nor support relating to the problem. However this will address your question.