Why do we develop application using Worker Roles ?

Question

Hi All, Why do we develop application using Worker Roles ? Means can't we use windows app/windos service instead of it? Thanks

Answer 1

Hi All,

       Why do we develop application using Worker Roles ? Means can't we use windows app/windos service instead of it?


Thanks

Answer 2

A worker role is the Windows Azure equivalent of a Windows Service.

Answer 3

As Neil says, he Worker role is equivalent to a Windows Service. It builds upon it by adding features such as Health Monitoring, unavailable to Windows Services, that informs the Azure Portal of the state of your application.

Regarding a Windows App - the Azure environments are web based and present no GUI to the web, so there is no ability to RDP onto the servers and thus interact with a Windows Application.

BWC;

Answer 4

You can't host a win-service in highly scalable environment such as Windows Azure. Because it is not a Windows Hosted solution. It is a cloud coputing solution.
And you cannot develop WinForms/WPF (actually any user-interaction based software) to be deployed in Hosted environment as Azure (for now :) ).
The worker role basically acts as a Windows Service. It is just best suited for the environment specifics.

Answer 5

Thanks all, for the clarificaiton....