The remote procedure call failed (0x800706be)–Windows Azure SDK installation broke SQL Server Config Manager?!?
So I’ve been working on a project which is a large production web application built in ASP.NET MVC. This is an enterprise level app which means it’s big, it’s complex, and it’s got a lot (i.e. thousands) of unit tests. When you run all unit tests in solution in Visual Studio, and you’ve got, say, 6000 tests, the memory usage goes way up for devenv.exe, QTAgent32.exe (if you’re using 32 bit version of that; same goes for the 64 bit version, I’ve noticed); and, if you’re doing integration tests and your tests are hitting the database, then, the memory usage goes way up for SQL Server. And, it doesn’t seem to let go of that memory (for any of those applications) when the tests are done. (I’ve also noticed this type of behavior when I run certain database build scripts). Well, I sometimes use the SQL Server Configuration Manager to, primarily, restart SQL Server, for example when I’ve just run a load of unit tests in Visual Studio. (Yes you can also re-start the...