In order to deploy the default ASP.Net MVC 3 web role that comes with version 1.4 (and later) of the Windows Azure SDK, it is necessary to make some changes linked to the SQL connection strings, which point by default to the local SQLEXPRESS instance. This article from Wade Wegner explains how to make them work once deployed to the cloud.
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