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The three finger salute for remote desktop is: Ctrl+Alt+End.

Just posting for my own reference. Shout out to My Digital Life for the answer.

This error message occurs in Windows Azure when the storage account is accessed from a Role that isn’t configured to read the published configuration settings. To fix this problem, add the following to the OnStart() method of the Worker Role (WorkerRole.cs) or Web Role (WebRole.cs) file:

// read storage account configuration settings
CloudStorageAccount.SetConfigurationSettingPublisher((configName, configSetter) =>
{
    configSetter(RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(configName));
});

Today I got this error simply adding a master page to a solution, which included a line for ‘using System.Linq’:

“Type or Namespace ‘Linq’ does not exist in the namespace ‘System’.”

The thing is, Linq exists in System.Core, not System. So why the bogus error? Seems like they wrongly put the Linq code into the System namespace. And just how would one know where to find Linq if one didn’t remember it’s in System.Core? You would be reduced to searching Google (which is probably how you got here after all!).