Web worker on cloud service - some questions

Hi all;
Ok, I'm trying to get a web worker implemented (following this) working off of a message queue and have a couple of questions:
So I get a message, perform my operation on it (in my case an update to Sql Azure), and then delete the message. What if Azure shuts me down after I complete the update but before the message is deleted. Then when I start up again, won't I be processing
that message again?
If I mark the message as processing, and then Azure shuts me down just before I call update, then won't I lose that operation?
It says sleep for 1 minute if there's no messages. Is there a way to instead block on an event and trigger that event when I add another message?
thanks - dave
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Hello,
First, azure cloud service has a high availability and it rarely shut down. If the worker role app shuts down, also you unnecessary worry about the azure storage queue service. As this
article mentioned, "Your code de-queues a message from a queue in two steps. When you call
GetMessage, you get the next message in a queue. A message returned from
GetMessage becomes invisible to any other code reading messages from this queue. By default, this message stays invisible for 30 seconds. To finish removing the message from the queue, you must also call
DeleteMessage. This two-step process of removing a message assures that
if your code fails to process a message due to hardware or software failure, another instance of your code can get the same message and try again. Your code calls
DeleteMessage right after the message has been processed." So we should call the DeleteMessage method after completed your operating.
As for your third question, not really there is a trigger for worker role app. We should use a long running process to read messages from storage queue.
while (true)
try
//your code to read queue messages
//you can make the thread sleep some times
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000 * 60);
catch (Exception ex)
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000 * 60);
Best Regards,
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