I'm running my website in an Azure VM, with a SQL Azure database. As far as I can tell, in Azure, you have to expect that the DB connection might not be super stable, and so far I've seen a "connection forceably closed" exception.

According to this article, there are some application blocks that do transient fault handling: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680899%28v=pandp.50%29.aspx

Since uCommerce uses NHibernate, I'm guessing that I would need to do something specific for that? Has anyone tried something like that?

I've found a NHibernate driver, that says it will handle it, but I'm not sure how that fits into a product where you do not handle the datalayer yourself: https://github.com/MRCollective/NHibernate.SqlAzure

Any tips and tricks appreciated :)

I've considered a dirty hack, being to catch all exceptions that contain "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host", and then redirect the user to the current url, effectively making a ghetto style retry mechanism. But that just seems wrong...