Trick in Windows Azure deployment
If you see web roles or worker roles are going back and forth between initializing-busy-stopping, the first thing you should check is the copy local attribute of the assemblies. All assemblies that aren’t part of .NET framework have to be set as Copy Local=True so that they would be included in your deployment package. Otherwise they aren’t deployed to Azure ending up the problem above
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Trick in Windows Azure deployment
