Question

I have an application that sends automatic mails via a worker role.
When I debug my application in Visual Studio my task that I set OnStart() in the WorkerRole.cs works perfectly, I receive a mail every 5 minutes (for test purposes).
My Code in WorkerRole.cs:

   public override bool OnStart()

    {
        ScheduledTaskTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(ScheduledTaskTimer_Elapsed);
        // ScheduledTaskTimer.Interval = 86400000;
        ScheduledTaskTimer.Interval = 180000;

        ScheduledTaskTimer.Enabled = true;
        return base.OnStart(); }

But when I deploy to Windows Azure, my worker role does not seem to work.
I never receive any mail.. I don’t know how to check if the worker role is actually running..

Answer 1

Please Study my comments in the question below:

Webrole is not starting and always busy

For a worker role you dont need to follow step 2) above if you don’t have a web server running, still you can all other steps to troubleshoot this issue.