Question

I’ve been trying to create an ASP.net – MVC app that uses entity framework to connect to an Azure database.

I used a database first method to try and create the Model, I was able to connect to my azure database and successfully create the model.

Everything was working perfectly and I was able to retrieve my values from my azure database then I tried to publish the website to an Azure website. The website works fine and I have the website registered as able to use the azure database. When I click on the button that hits the controller to access the database I then get “Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request.”

When I looked into this a bit more I seen that when I created my Entity Data model using the wizard it created a connection string to a local db for my entity connection settings. I’m guessing this is saving some entity framework settings but my problem is obviously when I publish the website to Azure it can’t access this local db.

Any suggestions on how to either get this DB onto Azure or avoid using this extra database?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is the best tool to migrate your local database to Azure. Before publishing your site change the web.config to point to the Azure database. It will solve your problem.