What is the difference between Worker Role and Worker Role with Service Bus Queue

Question

What is the difference between these two implementations, can someone tell which one is to use under what scenario?

Also pros and cons if there is any? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There isn't really any difference between the two. Worker role with Service Bus Queue is just a VS project template that adds the Service Bus dependencies and configures an empty message handling function and adds the code ready to set up your own connection string etc.
If you are planning on implementing a worker role that reads from a queue it will save you a little typing time. If you prefer you can create a basic Worker Role project and add queue handling logic to it, you will ultimately achieve the same thing.