In Windows Azure you need to catch certain exceptions that indicate that there is a transient failure and you should try again shortly (with a exponential back-off) when your application is using SQL Azure. The following link provides a detailed description:

http://windowsazurecat.com/2010/10/best-practices-for-handling-transient-conditions-in-sql-azure-client-applications/

Entity Framework 6 is apparently going to be able to automatically handle this, so the developer won't need to wrap all their database calls with code that handles these transient conditions. As a developer working on a app that will be deployed on Azure, I would really appreciate this feature in LinqConnect.