Diving deeper into Windows Azure table storage

In this previous posts about Windows Azure Table Storage, I relied on the StorageClient project in the Azure SDK samples. This feels a bit strange, and raises the question: Am I expected to include references to sample projects and be using Microsoft.Samples.whatever namespaces in my future projects?

This raises a couple of questions about license, copyright, [...]

Authenticating against Azure Table Storage

When searching for articles/blogs/samples about using Azure Table Storage from .NET, it seems most of them (if not all) depend on the StorageClient sample in the Azure SDK. I read about authentication with SharedKey or SharedKeyLite, and I always found the magic of these authentication schemes were wrapped up into several layers of abstractions in [...]

How to use Windows Azure table storage

I found several great articles showing how to work with Windows Azure Table Storage:

Rob Bagby’s Azure Application Part 2: Access Azure Table Storage
Jim Nakashima’s Windows AzureWalkthrough: Table Storage
Video tutorials on Microsofts Azure developer portal

All these, however, assume that the table storage will be used from an Azure web or worker role. I wanted to see if the Windows [...]