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Hi<br />
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I have built VB.net applications over the past few years that interact with cloud-based<br />
SQL tables that live on my hosting providers servers.<br />
Is it possible to create a SQL database in the Office 365 environment<br />
that my windows apps could talk to?
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Hi

I have built VB.net applications over the past few years that interact with cloud-based
SQL tables that live on my hosting providers servers.
Is it possible to create a SQL database in the Office 365 environment
that my windows apps could talk to?

VB.net: Cloud SQL database in Office 365

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

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Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,

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