What are the limitations for Azure Development Fabric?

Question

I read about this, and it seems that there are some differences between the dev design and the azure cloud fabric production window, but nowhere can I find a list of what is capable of dev fabric and what does not compare with cloud fabric.

For example, as shown here :

All Windows Azure environments in the cloud are the same; there is nothing special about testing or staging. However, there are differences between the local development structure and cloud fabric , so it’s important to test the application in the cloud.

(my emphasis)

I saw hints of these differences in several places, but again ... said nothing else.

Does anyone know any resources describing these differences?

Answer 1

Here's an MSDN article that describes the specific differences between a storage emulator and Azure storage.

And ... here's an article describing the specific differences between Compute emulators and instances of Windows Azure VM.

Link to the top-level article here .

Answer 2

David's answer is good, but I want to add that the key difference between the dev tag and the cloud is that the dev fabric works on your computer (with a bunch of GAC'd DLLs, different settings in IIS, etc.).