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How to set up a Service Fabric development environment

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You have to launch Visual Studio as an administrator. To do this every time automatically, pin Visual Studio to the taskbar, right-click the icon, then Visual Studio 2017PropertiesAdvanced… → and check Launch as administrator.

SDK & Tools

Service Fabric Local Cluster is useful for development. Service Fabric Tools are part of the Azure Development and Management workload in Visual Studio 2017. Tools for Visual Studio 2015 need to be installed separately.

Install the SDK for Visual Studio 2017

Install the SDK and tools for Visual Studio 2015

Local Cluster

To set up a local cluster, press Start and type Service Fabric Local Cluster Manager and press Enter. From the system tray, right-click the Service Fabric icon and navigate to Setup Local Cluster1 Node. Wait a few seconds until you see a notification Service Fabric Local Cluster Manager setup completed successfully.