Installing Service Fabric Locally

This'll be a very brief post with a problem and quick solution for installing Service Fabric on your local development computer. I hit a snag during installation.

To run Service Fabric apps locally, you need to first download and install Service Fabric. Installation requires reading the instructions and running a PowerShell script; it's not quite as easy as running a setup.exe and watching it go.

Unfortunately, if you try installing to a path containing a space, such a C:\Program Files, the provided PowerShell script CreateServiceFabricCluster.ps1 fails:

PowerShell Script Path Error

The solution was to places quotes around the file path string. This had been done for another variable in the code, but was apparently overlooked for this one.

Original code (in CreateServiceFabricCluster.ps1, line 58):

$DCExtractOutput = cmd.exe /c "$DCAutoExtractorPath $DCExtractArguments && exit 0 || exit 1"

New code (note the tick-quote delimiter preceding the double-quote characters around $DCAutoExtractorPath):

$DCExtractOutput = cmd.exe /c "`"$DCAutoExtractorPath`" $DCExtractArguments && exit 0 || exit 1"

After the modification, the path containing spaces is quoted and is accepted for execution properly.