I had been running my Azure Functions locally to debug the processes when this morning the func.exe kept failing each time I pressed F5 and would not allow me to debug my code. The Storage Emulator on my machine was started and I could access it through the Storage Explorer and my application Properties were correct but func.exe would not fire up.

After a bit of head scratching I decided to fire up the func.exe outside of Visual Studio and run it against my project and func gave me the answer straight away.

I had been playing around with my local.settings.json and the entry for AzureWebJobsStorage was empty. Because the func.exe shuts down straight away when running in Visual Studio I wasn’t able to see the error but I could when I ran it outside of the IDE.