CHAPTER 8

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Windows Azure and ASP.NET

This chapter walks you through the steps of creating a Windows Azure application and deploying it in the cloud. By now, you know you can’t create WinForms applications in Windows Azure. However, you can create an ASP.NET application that runs locally in IIS and connects to SQL Database, or build an ASP.NET application that runs as a cloud project which can then run entirely in the cloud. This chapter will show you how to build a small web application in ASP.NET that can be deployed in the cloud, and implements the Direct Connection pattern discussed in Chapter 2.

An application published in the Microsoft cloud ...

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