title: Windows Azure and Metro-style apps in Windows 8
body: <p>I have atleast 5 billion ideas for a new App in Windows 8. However, most of them rely on a remote database connection.</p>
  
  <p>Which is currently not possible in Metro apps. But I don't want just a work-around. Or an script that accesses an API which will access the DB and return results. So then I went to the MS forums and found a post somewhere (which I can't seem to find now) stating that I can just use Windows Azure SQL database and can connect to that one from within Windows Metro.</p>
  
  <p>But I don't see any resources or documentation to back that up and I'm completely lost as to what to do.</p>
  
  <p>Most apps these days, to offer any sort of personalized user experience need to communicate with the outside world and it's just impossible to do in Metro apps from what I can see.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know if you can connect to a Windows Azure SQL DB from within a Metro style app? Any resources/Docs/Links/Samples you know of?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>