In my preceding post I talked about the Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team ("CAT")'s framework for handling transient connections in SQL Azure client connections. This framework has 3 components to it: a classification scheme for connection exceptions that tells you which ones are worth trying...

This is a collection of resources I have encountered while researching the problem of intermittent connections in Windows Azure. I will be writing about how these affect not just Entity Framework, but Windows Azure more generally. "Transient connections" is a polite way of saying "dropped connections...