Remote debugging Windows azure cloud service - Worker Role Very recently I was working on design and development of a worker role component of cloud service. Locally debugging worker role is pretty easy. You just need to know that you need to set Cloud project as a start-up project and ready to go. Problem is when you deploy worker role to azure and trying to troubleshoot an unknown issue. Thankfully we have remote debugging enable for cloud services – both web and worker roles. This is really handy tool to remotely debug without having to putting a lot of tracing and digging into it. However, remote debugging in worker role/web role requires few steps to be followed: Make sure you are debugging from same machine where you published Make sure to turn on Remote debugger on while you publish (This should be turned off for Production publish profiles) Make sure to Select Debug mode With all the above settings after you publish, you should be able to Attach D
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