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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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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

Ground-to-Cloud access


In this case, a client on site will be retrieving data from SQL Azure. The application for this scenario will be using Visual Studio 2008 SP1. However, Visual Studio 2008 does not allow creating a connection to SQL Azure in its IDE. What is described here is a workaround, which is not necessary if you are using Visual Studio 2010 Express. The workaround consists of creating an ASP.NET web application, which retrieves data (or manipulates data) from an on-site SQL Server 2008 R2 and after making sure it works, the connection string is now set to point to the SQL Azure. It is necessary to have the table schema on SQL Azure the same as that of the table in the on-site server.

Using Linq to retrieve data from SQL Azure

Linq to SQL, a component of Visual Studio was designed to provide a run-time infrastructure for managing relational data as objects without losing the ability to query efficiently. Linq to SQL is an object-relational model that you can leverage in Visual...

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