Azure Web Jobs

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• #10: If you compare the amount of code in the GenerateThumbnails method in this sample application with the worker role code in the Cloud Service version of the application, you can see how much work the WebJobs SDK is doing for you. The advantage is greater than it appears, because the Cloud Service sample application code doesn't do all of the things (such as poison message handling) that you would do in a production application, and which the WebJobs SDK does for you. In the Cloud Service version of the application, the record ID is the only information in the queue message, and the background process gets the image URL from the database. In the WebJobs SDK version of the application, the queue message includes the image URL so that it can be provided to the Blobattributes. If the queue message didn't have the blob URL, you could use the Blob attribute in the body of the method instead of in the method signature.