Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
To check that your website is running, you may first need to refresh your screen. Click the Site URL link located
on the right side of the screen, which is the area that lists the properties of the deployment. Clicking the link opens
another browser and runs your web application in the cloud (see Figure
8-21
).
Figure 8-21.
Running the web application in the cloud
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As mentioned previously, you're now paying for this Windows Azure service. To remove this service and stop
accruing charges, select the AzureExample cloud service, click on staging, and click on the delete button on the bottom menu.
Note
Summary
This chapter showed you how to create a simple ASP.NET application that connects to a SQL Database instance. 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 Database
instance. 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 Database is free within the same
region, but you pay for compute time in Windows Azure.
