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, [...]

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 [...]