ASP.net Webform 4.5 (NOT MVC4) application with SQL database - Azure deployment guidelines

Question

Hello, looking for any link or documentation on how to deoploy ASP.NET Webform application and backend SQL Server 2008 database on Azure platform.  

Do we need to build anything specific for Session management on Azure? Any help would appriciated.

Answer 1

Hi,

You need to migrate the SQL Server database to SQL Azure:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee730904.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/08/04/10046103.aspx

For any SQL Azure database issue, please open case in this forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/threads

Thanks,

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Answer 2

Do we need to build anything specific for Session management on Azure? Any help would appriciated.

Hi karmyogi,

You don't need to build anything specific for Session State Management on Windows Azure. You can make use of Windows Azure Cache (co-located). All you need to do is enable it on your WebRole and configure it. You can find all the information on how to set up Session State and Output Cache here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/cache/

Also make sure that you make use of Windows Azure Blob Storage, if you need to store files that are uploaded from your WebApp (for example). Don't make use of the instance's disk space, those are not persistent.

Hope this helps!

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Best Regards,
Carlos Sardo