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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development Straight talking advice on how to design and build enterprise applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680981
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. The Nickel Tour of Azure 3. Setting Up for Development 4. Designing our Sample Application 5. Introduction to SQL Azure 6. Azure Blob Storage 7. Azure Table Storage 8. Queue Storage 9. Web Role 10. Web Services and Azure 11. Worker Roles 12. Local Application for Updates 13. Azure AppFabric 14. Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics 15. Deploying to Windows Azure Index

Worker role internals


Building worker roles is fairly simple they are just class libraries that inherit from the Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime.RoleEntryPoint class. Worker roles are automatically started when their host instance is started. During startup, code in the OnStart() method is executed. The OnStart() method returns a Boolean value. If OnStart() returns true, the role is started and the Run() method is called, whereas if OnStart() returns false, the role is stopped.

Our worker tasks should be coded in the Run() method, and we should not return from the Run() method. If we do, Azure will restart the worker role. Instead, and despite our best instincts, the code in the Run() method should be enclosed inside an infinite loop. The way to stop a worker role is to stop the host instance. For this reason, worker roles that need to function independently should all be separated into individual instances.

When our worker role instance is being shut down by Azure, the OnStop...

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