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I keep hearing how Windows Azure has "Web roles" and "Worker Roles", what is the reason for this? Am I meant to structure my code differently for these things?

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Hello David,

the best way to think of the web role is to think of it as IIS. The worker roles are more like windows services and are intended for long running or background operations.

HTH.

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Exactly: channel9.msdn.com/shows/Cloud+Cover/… – chgeuer Mar 11 at 12:21

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