Basic "How do I store data in a table?" tutorial

Question

I used Windows Azure storage back in the beta days but haven't yet used it since full release. I've looked around on MSDN and cannot find the canonical "This is how you store and retrieve data using the new storage APIs" tutorial. Please can someone point me at such a thing? I'm sure its there somewhere but darned if I can find it. All I want to do is pinch the code!

 

thanks

Jamie

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Answer 1

Hi Jamie,

Welcome (back) to Azure!!! May I suggest you take a look at Neil's blog on understanding storage client library: http://nmackenzie.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=summary&_c=BlogPart . Since you're only interested in checking out tables, you may want to check these blog posts in particular:

Tables: http://nmackenzie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B863FF075995D18A!525.entry

More Tables: http://nmackenzie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B863FF075995D18A!526.entry

Entities in Azure: http://nmackenzie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B863FF075995D18A!551.entry

Queries: http://nmackenzie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B863FF075995D18A!564.entry

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Gaurav Mantri

Cerebrata Software

http://www.cerebrata.com

 

 

Answer 2

Thanks Gaurav.Neil's still the guy to go to eh!! I'm very surprised there's nothing on MSDN tho.

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Answer 3

MSDN has documentation on the storage client library. I guess for working examples you would need to download hands on labs.

Thanks

Gaurav