Windows Azure SDK for .NET

The Windows Azure SDK for .NET allows you to build Windows Azure applications that take advantage of scalable cloud computing resources.

This repository contains the open source subset of the .NET Storage SDK. For documentation of the complete SDK, please see the Windows Azure .NET Developer Center.

Features

• Tables
  • Create/Delete Tables
  • Query/Create/Read/Update/Delete Entities
• Blobs
  • Create/Read/Update/Delete Blobs
• Queues
  • Create/Delete Queues
  • Insert/Peek Queue Messages
  • Advanced Queue Operations

Getting started

The complete Windows Azure SDK can be downloaded from the Windows Azure Downloads Page and ships with support for building deployment packages, integrating with tooling, rich command line tooling, and more.

For the best development experience, developers should use the official Microsoft NuGet packages for libraries. NuGet packages are regularly updated with new functionality and hotfixes.

Target Frameworks

• .NET Framework 4.0: As of October 2013, the Windows Azure SDK for .NET (v2.2) supports primarily the desktop .NET Framework 4 release and above. For earlier .NET versions, SDK v2.1 is still supported.
• Windows 8 for Windows Store app development: Storage Client Libraries are available for Windows Store applications.

Requirements

• Windows Azure Subscription: To call Windows Azure services, you need to first create an account. Sign up for a free trial or use your MSDN subscriber benefits.
• Hosting: To host your .NET code in Windows Azure, you additionally need to download the full Windows Azure SDK for .NET - which includes packaging, emulation, and deployment tools, or use Windows Azure Web Sites to deploy ASP.NET web applications.

Need Help?

Be sure to check out the Windows Azure Developer Forums on MSDN if you have trouble with the provided code or use StackOverflow.

Collaborate & Contribute

We gladly accept community contributions.

• Issues: Please report bugs using the Issues section of GitHub
• Forums: Interact with the development teams on StackOverflow or the Windows Azure Forums
• Source Code Contributions: Please follow the contribution guidelines for Windows Azure open source that details information on onboarding as a contributor

For general suggestions about Windows Azure please use our UserVoice forum.

Storage Client Library for .NET 4, Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8 (3.0.0.0)

The Storage Client Library ships with the Windows Azure SDK for .NET and also on NuGet. You'll find the latest version and hotfixes on NuGet via the WindowsAzure.Storage package.

Please note that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 libraries are CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases.

Download & Install

Via Git

To get the source code of the SDK via git just type:

git clone git://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-storage-net.git
cd azure-storage-net

Via NuGet

To get the binaries of this library as distributed by Microsoft, ready for use within your project you can also have them installed by the .NET package manager NuGet.

Desktop

Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage

Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage-Preview -Pre Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage.Table-Preview -Pre

Dependencies

OData

This version depends on three libraries (collectively referred to as ODataLib), which are resolved through the ODataLib (version 5.6.0) packages available through NuGet and not the WCF Data Services installer which currently contains 5.0.0 versions.

The ODataLib libraries can be downloaded directly or referenced by your code project through NuGet.

The specific ODataLib packages are:

• Microsoft.Data.OData
• Microsoft.Data.Edm
• System.Spatial

Test Dependencies

FiddlerCore is required by:

• Test\FaultInjection\HttpMangler
• Test\FaultInjection\AzureStoreMangler
• Test\WindowsDesktop

This dependency is not included and must be downloaded from http://www.fiddler2.com/Fiddler/Core/.

Once installed:

• Copy FiddlerCore.dll \azure-storage-net\Test\FaultInjection\Dependencies\DotNet2
• Copy FiddlerCore4.dll to azure-storage-net\Test\FaultInjection\Dependencies\DotNet4

Code Samples

Note: How-Tos focused around accomplishing specific tasks are available on the [http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/](Windows Azure .NET Developer Center).

Creating a Table

First, include the classes you need (in this case we'll include the Storage and Table and further demonstrate creating a table):

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table;

To perform an operation on any Windows Azure resource you will first instantiate a client which allows performing actions on it. The resource is known as an entity. To do so for Table you also have to authenticate your request:

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
    CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));
var tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();

Now, to create a table entity using the client:

CloudTable peopleTable = tableClient.GetTableReference("people");
peopleTable.Create();

Learn More

• Windows Azure .NET Developer Center
• Windows Azure SDK Reference for .NET - MSDN