Top "Azure-worker-roles" questions

For questions relating to the Microsoft Azure Worker Role.

In Windows Azure: What are web role, worker role and VM role?

The application I work on contains a web role: it's a simple web application. I needed to host the application …

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FTP to Azure Blob Storage

I had to setup secure FTP to Azure Blob Storage using popular FTP clients (like FileZilla, for example). After doing …

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Visual Studio not finding my Azure subscriptions

I have a working Azure account with various services already running. I receive monthly bills for these. Now, I created …

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Worker Role vs Web Job

From what I understand both run small repeatable tasks in the cloud. What reasons and in what situations might I …

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Using QueueClient.OnMessage in an azure worker role

I have an Azure worker role that is responsible for checking 4 service bus queues. Currently, I just the looping method …

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How to upload a folder to Blob Storage?

I have a worker role that I use to pull data down from Blob Storage OnStart. Currently I'm testing this …

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What is the reason for "while(true) { Thread.Sleep }"?

I sometimes encounter code in the following form: while (true) { //do something Thread.Sleep(1000); } I was wondering if this is …

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Getting a Service to Run Inside of an Azure Worker Role

I have a windows service that I need to migrate to onto Azure as a Worker Role. Everything builds fine …

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The type initializer for 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment' threw an exception

I am trying to use Windows Azure Caching to store sessions in a MVC4 application. I build a application following …

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Copy file from remote server using SFTP straight to Azure blob storage

I've got a remote server with a bunch of static files (outside of Azure). I've created a worker role in …

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