Resetting the Azure Development Storage

Question

In Azure Development Storage's UI, there's a Reset button which stops, wipes, and restarts the devstore. Is there a programmatic way of doing this, similar to how I can stop and start the storage using

DevStore.Shutdown();

Answer 1

While I haven't reset the devstore programmatically, I suppose you could shell out to DSInit.exe programmatically:

DSInit /ForceCreate

Answer 2

@david-makogon's response is correct for the version of the SDK used in 2011, however in later versions of Azure Storage Emulator dsinit had been replaced with WAStorageEmulator and then with AzureStorageEmulator . (Maybe there was something else in between, but it doesn't matter as long as you use the latest SDK at the time of writing of this answer.)

A good overview of what's used at the moment can be found in Use the Azure Storage Emulator for Development and Testing .

And regarding your question that would be:

1. Start Azure Storage Emulator to bring up the storage emulator command-line tool.
2. Run AzureStorageEmulator init /forceCreate