Currently, the one sentence description contains too little information.
excerpted from the following website
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh690947.aspx
The Windows Azure Service Runtime library provides functionality that allows your application to interact with the Windows Azure environment. It also allows your application to determine information about the roles, role instances, and role environment. Examples of where you would use the Service Runtime include:
Determining configuration settings, local resources, and role-related information.
Responding to role environment changes, for example a change to a configuration setting.
Requesting a recycle of a role instance.
The RoleEnvironment, RoleInstance, and Role classes are the main classes in the Service Runtime
Currently, the one sentence description contains too little information.
excerpted from the following website
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh690947.aspx
The Windows Azure Service Runtime library provides functionality that allows your application to interact with the Windows Azure environment. It also allows your application to determine information about the roles, role instances, and role environment. Examples of where you would use the Service Runtime include:
Determining configuration settings, local resources, and role-related information.
Responding to role environment changes, for example a change to a configuration setting.
Requesting a recycle of a role instance.
The RoleEnvironment, RoleInstance, and Role classes are the main classes in the Service Runtime