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

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

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

• 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

• Media

  Available in separate Media Services repository

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

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

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 http://www.nuget.org/.

Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage

• .NET Framework 3.5: At this time the majority of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET supports primarily the desktop .NET Framework 3.5 and above.
• .NET Framework 4.0: Storage Client Library for .NET supports the desktop .NET Framework 4.0 and above.
• Windows 8 for Windows Store app development: Storage Client Libraries are available for Windows Store applications.

• Windows Azure Subscription: To call Windows Azure services, you need to first create an account. Free trial subscriptions are available.
• 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.

This version depends on three libraries (collectively referred to as ODataLib), which are resolved through the ODataLib (version 5.2.0) 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

FiddlerCore is required by:

• Test\Unit\FaultInjection\HttpMangler
• Test\Unit\FaultInjection\XStoreMangler
• Test\Unit\DotNet40

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

Once installed:

• Copy FiddlerCore.dll \azure-sdk-for-net\microsoft-azure-api\Services\Storage\Test\Unit\FaultInjection\Dependencies\DotNet2
• Copy FiddlerCore4.dll to azure-sdk-for-net\microsoft-azure-api\Services\Storage\Test\Unit\FaultInjection\Dependencies\DotNet4

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).

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();

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

For feedback related specificically to these open source client libraries, please use the Issues section of the repository.

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

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