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How to Remotely Access Windows Azure Dev. Fabric. One of the common topics on Windows Azure is how to access remotely a compute emulator, or the development fabric (dev fabric).

How to Remotely Access Windows Azure Dev. Fabric

This is not, of course, a solution for production, but it can come in handy when you're developing two systems on separate computers and you need to test their integration before deploying them to Windows Azure. The problem with the development fabric is that it binds to the looback device only, so it works only if accessed by the localhost address (127.0.0.1). The computer emulator shows that it bound to 127.0.0.1: Also netstat output shows it: