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SietoHulst<br />20-04-2010<br />Migrating an ASP.Net application to the Microsoft Azure platform<br />

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The ASP.Net application<br />

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No. 3<br />The ASP.Net application– Starting point<br />Standard ASP.Net application<br />On er more web application projects<br />Data access and busseniss object projects<br />Ajax and javascript components<br />SQL Server 2005 or 2008 database<br />Several tables already filled with data<br />Primary keys and foreign keys<br />Other Constraints and indexes<br />

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Migration<br />

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Add a cloud project to the existing solution<br />Add the startup web project as web role to the cloud project<br />Migrate the database to the SQL Azure database<br />Change all the connectionstrings in the project<br />Deploy the cloud application using the Azure control panel<br />No. 5<br />Migration- Steps<br />

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Login mechanisme isn’t working<br />Logging<br />Can’t migrate the database to SQL Azure<br />Can’t see the database tables using SQL Server Management Studio<br />No. 6<br />Migration- Problems<br />

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Login mechanisme isn’t working<br />Check the mechanisms supported by Azure (f.e. Windows Live Services and Active directory) and change the current login mechanisme.<br />Logging<br />Azure supports almost all conventional logging methods. Choose one to fit your needs.<br />Can’t migrate the database to SQL Azure<br />SQL Azure supports less features then SQL Server 2005 and 2008. Use SQL Azure Migration Wizard (http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/) to migrate your database.<br />Can’t see the database tables using SQL Server Management Studio<br />There is no solution for this problem at the moment. You can use SQL Server Management Studio to execute scripts on the SQL Azure database.<br />No. 7<br />Migration- Solutions<br />

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Best practices & tools<br />

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Check if the current application has functionality that isn’t supported by Azure and solve this before converting the application.<br />Use SQL Azure Migration Wizard to migrate your current database to a SQL Azure database.<br />Incorporate logging in your application (if not already present).<br />If you wan’t to scale your Azure application determine wich parts should be scaled and seperate them from the current application.<br />Write a scaling algorithm to fit your needs.<br />No. 9<br />Best practices & tools<br />