Sample app to test Azure Web Farm background worker

gistfile1.cs

using System;
using System.Threading;
using AzureToolkit;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    public class ConsoleResult : TableServiceEntity
    {
        public ConsoleResult(string filePath, string machineName, int consoleVersion, int count, bool continueRunning, bool runForever)
        {
            PartitionKey = machineName + ";" + filePath;
            RowKey = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("o");
            ConsoleVersion = consoleVersion;
            Count = count;
            ContinueRunning = continueRunning;
            RunForever = runForever;
        }

        public int ConsoleVersion { get; set; }
        public int Count { get; set; }
        public bool ContinueRunning { get; set; }
        public bool RunForever { get; set; }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static int Main()
        {
            const string connectionString = "AccountName=ZZZ;AccountKey=ZZZ;DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https";
            var filePath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase.Replace("file:///", "").Replace("/", "_").Replace("\\", "_").Replace(" ", "_").Replace(":", "_");
            var storageFactory = new AzureStorageFactory(CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString));
            var table = storageFactory.GetTable<ConsoleResult>(typeof(ConsoleResult).Name);
            table.Initialize();
            var random = new Random();
            var count = 1;
            while (count <= 5)
            {
                var continueRunning = random.Next(0, 1000) < 750;
                var runForever = random.Next(0, 1000) > 900;
                table.Add(new ConsoleResult(filePath, Environment.MachineName, 1 /* Increment this every deploy to see the app updating */, count, continueRunning, runForever));
                if (!continueRunning)
                    return 1;
                if (runForever)
                    while (true) { Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); }
                count++;
            }

            return 0;
        }
    }
}

@MattDavies - this has been incredibly useful. I've done some really solid testing on this now and I'm pretty happy it's working great!