I was playing with the new Membership API (System.Web.Providers) for the upcoming Virtual TechDays While I was trying out a lot of options for using as DB store, one of the obvious choices was SQL Azure. With SQL Azure, I could offload the Database hosting capabilities to Azure and just focus on my application code. Of course, it comes at a cost and SQL Azure is a subscription based database available in different sizes and rates there of. One of the challenges I faced was, working with the Membership API's connectionstring called as "DefaultConnection". The Default Connection is something you would use simply for all connection strings once you upgrade the application to use the New Membership API. While configuring the connection string, I...(read more)
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