Pre-login handshake woes with connecting directly to SQL Azure

Question

We are currently experiencing a rather troublesome problem in our development environment with the following message...

A connection was successfully establi         


        

Answer 1

What does your connection string look like? Not sure if you've tried this yet but I remember having a problem similar when using a remote SQL connection to SQL Azure and found that I had to set:

Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True

and remove any Connect Timeout from the string entirely.