---
title: "Visual Studio 2008 error creating Azure Web cloud service"
published_at: "2009-07-17T20:00:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-11-22T05:20:18+00:00"
url: "https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/visual-studio-2008-error-creating-azure-web-cloud-service"
excerpt: "I came across this error when trying to create a new web cloud service using Visual Studio 2008 after installing the latest Azure SDK “Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined” A solution was available in..."
taxonomy_category:
  - "Azure"
taxonomy_post_tag:
  - "Azure"
  - "Cloud Service"
  - "VS 2008"
---

# Visual Studio 2008 error creating Azure Web cloud service

[Stephen Jebaraj](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/author/stephenj)

![Image](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/azure_cloud_service_5ea96005.png)

I came across this error when trying to create a new web cloud service using Visual Studio 2008 after installing the latest Azure SDK

“Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined”

![cloudError](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cloud-error.png "cloudError")

A solution was available in this MSDN forum thread


I had to create a “Startup” folder on my machine as suggested

C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

This not only fixed this problem but also fixed another problem that I had with VS2008. A month back VS2008 started showing this security warning even when creating new projects:

“This project has been customized and could present a security risk by executing custom build steps..”

![vs2008warning](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/vs-2008-warning.png "vs2008warning")