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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development Moving business applications and data to the cloud can be a smooth operation when you use this practical guide. Learn to make the most of SQL Azure and acquire the knowledge to build enterprise-ready applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680806
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Azure Services 3. Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008 4. SQL Azure Tools 5. Populating SQL Azure Databases 6. SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure 7. Working with Windows Azure Hosting 8. Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases 9. Synchronizing SQL Azure 10. Recent Developments

Cloud-to-Cloud access


In this scenario, we consider the simplest case of an ASP.NET application hosted in the Cloud retrieving data from SQL Azure. This scenario is likely in cases where the Internet client may want to access the SQL Azure database through a hosted application on Windows Azure.

We saw in the previous case that using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 we need to swap the connection string to connect to SQL Azure, as the platform does not allow direct connection to SQL Azure. However, if we use Visual Studio 2010 Express (which is a free version) we avoid this workaround of swapping the connection string. In working through this scenario, we will use Visual Web Developer Express 2010. You may download a copy of this from the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2010-Visual-Web-Developer.

Using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer available from the same link, it is very easy to install other related programs as well.

In order to create a Cloud Service we also need...

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