What are the steps for migrating from an ASP.NET website to Windows Azure?

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If you are interested in deploying an ASP.Net Web app to Windows Azure, with Report Viewer control for SSRS reports, you can find instructions at Use ReportViewer in a web site Hosted in Windows Azure. You should ask yourself if / why you want to migrate. Azure gives you incredible scalability if developed for- otherwise just use a different cloud service. Azure development is very helpful to create a new Windows Azure project by using perfect coding system.

Migrating from an ASP.NET Website to Windows Azure

1.    You need to follow these steps:

•    Convert your project to 2010
•    Convert ASP.NET website to Web Application.
•    Then on the solution file, you need to click Add project
•    After that choose cloud project (and do not choose any role)
•    Then Right click the cloud project
•    Then choose add role from solution
•    Add WebRole.cs to web application project
•    Run and test
•    If everything works then you are in the cloud then.

2.    The very first step is to create a new Windows Azure project. The project should be into which code from your existing web application will be migrated.

3.    After the code, you need to make the new project to work in the cloud rather than on a ‘local’ web server. In particular, you can move configuration settings from web.config to the Azure RoleEnvironment. After that set the number of instances of the site to be running in the cloud. Then, Address options for handling session state in the cloud.

4.    Then deploy your newly cloud-enabled application to the cloud.

5.   This could be easy and straight forward steps to follow until you hit issues or problems.

•    If your website needs access to the local file store
•    NO LONGER VALID
•    There are few differences between SQLAzure and SQL2008

You must necessarily follow the above steps to migrate from ASP.NET to Windows Azure in an easy way. All you need is to create a new Windows Azure project and then continue development on it. The project must be efficiently handled within proper coding system and under expert developer unit.

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