Worker Role problems (doesn't work without debugging)

Question

Hello,
I upgraded the OS Version up to 3 last week and everything worked OK. But yesterday worker role stopped working. Windows Azure manager showed that service started up OK. I tried to find problem in code and found out that Worker Role works just great during
the debug only. 
Here is ServiceDefinition.csdef code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceDefinition name="Workers" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition" schemaVersion="2013-03.2.0">
<WorkerRole name="EventsProcessor" vmsize="ExtraSmall">
<Startup>
<Task commandLine="startup\regeventsrc.cmd" executionContext="elevated" taskType="simple" /> <!-- Here is code: EVENTCREATE /L Application /T Information /ID 123 /SO "FSPLogging" /D "FSP Logging Enabled" -->
</Startup>
<Imports>
<Import moduleName="RemoteAccess" />
<Import moduleName="RemoteForwarder" />
</Imports>
<LocalResources>
<LocalStorage name="ZipContainer" cleanOnRoleRecycle="true" sizeInMB="12000" />
<LocalStorage name="CrashDumpsContainer" cleanOnRoleRecycle="false" sizeInMB="1024" />
</LocalResources>
</WorkerRole>
</ServiceDefinition>
Can someone please help? What should I check first?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Alex,
Thank you for advice. I copied the exact connection string from the Azure Management Portal and Worker Role started to work.
Old connection string was:
   connectionString="Data Source=xxx.database.windows.net;Pooling=false;Initial Catalog={dbName}; User ID={userName}; Password={password};"
The new one is:
   connectionString="Server=tcp:xxx.database.windows.net,1433;Database={dbName};User ID={userName}@xxx;Password={password};Trusted_Connection=False;Encrypt=True;Connection Timeout=30;"
Anyway sometimes (very rarely... once in a 2-3 hours) I get next error:
"System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL
Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed
to respond.) ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"
Probably do you have some ideas regarding this?
Thanks a lot
Alex