Response to: MySQL Connection String Windows Azure

configure your connection string and other settings as a part of the azure web sites environment. You do this in the configure tab under the web site.

Here are two blog posts describing how to do (its for php, but it is pretty much the same for .net):

<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/10/23/getting-database-connection-information-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/10/23/getting-database-connection-information-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0</a>[<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/10/23/getting-database-connection-information-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]

and

<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/09/26/store-db-connection-info-in-windows-azure-web-sites-app-settings.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/09/26/store-db-connection-info-in-windows-azure-web-sites-app-settings.aspx</a>[<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/09/26/store-db-connection-info-in-windows-azure-web-sites-app-settings.aspx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]