The type initializer for 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment' threw an exception

Question

I am trying to use Windows Azure Caching to store sessions in a MVC4 application. I build a application following steps from Link but when i try to make object of DataCache

Answer 1

I experienced this when migrating from Azure SDK 2.3 to SDK 2.4.

I noticed the migration automatically fixed all references to the service runtime for my web and worker roles, i.e.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\.NET SDK\v2.3\ref\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll

changed to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\.NET SDK\v2.4\ref\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll

However any assemblies referenced from the web/worker roles that referenced this assembly didn't update so I had to do it manually.

In addition I had to update the web.config and app.config entries to reference 2.4.0.0