Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Conclusion
This chapter showed you how to create a simple ASP.NET application that connects to a SQL Azure
database. This requires a few configuration steps, including the creation of a Windows Azure service in
the cloud and the installation of a Visual Studio extension called the Windows Azure Tools.
While this chapter focused primarily on deploying an ASP.NET application in the cloud, you can
very easily deploy ASP.NET projects on your enterprise IIS servers and configure the connection string to
connect to a SQL Azure database. This gives you multiple deployment options to consider, although you
must keep in mind that each deployment option has a different cost structure. Data transfer between
Windows Azure and SQL Azure is free within the same region, but you pay for compute time in Windows
Azure.
