Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Preparing Your Application for Publishing

Recall that the application you created has a connection string to an Azure table storage area. This connection string was set to work in your development environment. You need to modify this to work with production.

You have a couple options for doing so. First, you could deploy the application to Azure and then use the Azure website to edit the XML configuration that contains the XML string. Alternatively, you can set the connection string inside Visual Studio, and then deploy the version that is ready for production (and does not require additional configuration). The following walks you through taking the latter approach:

1. Return to your Visual Studio project and open the Roles folder in the VS2010UnleashedFeedback ...