Earlier I had written 2 posts – Taking your Northwind Database to SQL Azure and binding it to an ASP.NET GridView Part I and Part II . I thought, I will complete the series with a post on moving your ASP.NET Application as well to Windows Azure making it a truly cloud based application. Before we start, there are a bunch of things that you would need to do. First and foremost, you would need a Token for Windows Azure. You can request for a free token for Windows Azure from here after providing your Live ID and a few more details. I am not aware of the current time it takes for receiving a token but in the past it used to be 24 hours. Similarly, if you want to have SQL Azure Tokens, you can get it from here and then login to https://sql.azure…(read more)