// shows alternative ways of generating DataServiceContext objects internal static void RunSamples2() { StorageAccountInfo account = null; try { account = StorageAccountInfo.GetDefaultTableStorageAccountFromConfiguration(); TableStorage tableStorage = TableStorage.Create(account); tableStorage.RetryPolicy = RetryPolicies.RetryN(3, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); // the DataServiceContext object inherits its retry policy from tableStorage in this case TableStorageDataServiceContext svc = tableStorage.GetDataServiceContext(); Console.WriteLine("Table creation, delete and list samples..."); string sampleTableName = SampleDataServiceContext.SampleTableName; tableStorage.TryCreateTable(sampleTableName); DeleteAllEntriesFromSampleTable(svc, sampleTableName); Console.WriteLine("List all tables in the account."); IEnumerable <string> tables2 = tableStorage.ListTables(); foreach (string n1 in tables2) { Console.WriteLine(n1); } Console.WriteLine("Inserting entities into the table..."); SampleEntity t = new SampleEntity("samplepartitionkey", "samplerowkey"); svc.AddObject(sampleTableName, t); svc.SaveChangesWithRetries(); //Detach the existing entity so that we can demonstrate the server side //error when you try to insert an same object with the same keys svc.Detach(t); // Insert an entity with the same keys Console.WriteLine("Try to insert the same entity into the table and show how to deal with error conditions."); t = new SampleEntity("samplepartitionkey", "samplerowkey"); svc.AddObject(sampleTableName, t); try { svc.SaveChangesWithRetries(); // getting here is an error because inserting the same row twice raises an exception Console.WriteLine("Should not get here. Succeeded inserting two entities with the same keys"); } catch (Exception e) { HttpStatusCode status; StorageExtendedErrorInformation errorInfo; if (TableStorageHelpers.EvaluateException(e, out status, out errorInfo) && status == HttpStatusCode.Conflict) { // the row has already been inserted before, this is expected here if (errorInfo != null) { Console.WriteLine("Attempting to insert row with same keys resulted in error {0} : {1}", errorInfo.ErrorCode, errorInfo.ErrorMessage); } } else { throw; } } svc.Detach(t); Console.WriteLine("Insert a large item into the table."); t = new SampleEntity("samplepartitionkey", "samplerowkey1"); t.B = new String('a', 1000); svc.AddObject(sampleTableName, t); svc.SaveChangesWithRetries(); Console.WriteLine("Create a normal DataServiceContext object (not TableStorageDataServiceContext) and attach it to a TableStorage object."); DataServiceContext svc2 = new DataServiceContext( TableStorage.GetServiceBaseUri(account.BaseUri, account.UsePathStyleUris, account.AccountName)); tableStorage.Attach(svc2); var qResult = from c in svc2.CreateQuery <SampleEntity>(sampleTableName) where c.RowKey == "samplerowkey1" select c; foreach (SampleEntity cust in qResult) { if (cust.B != t.B) { Console.WriteLine("Sample failed. Did not read the entity property just written"); } } Console.WriteLine("Insert many rows in a table and show the API for dealing with query result pagination."); int num = 2100; Console.WriteLine("Inserting {0} rows.", num.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture)); for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) { t = new SampleEntity("samplestring", i.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); svc.AddObject(sampleTableName, t); svc.SaveChangesWithRetries(); if ((i + 1) % 50 == 0) { Console.WriteLine("Inserted row {0}.", (i + 1).ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture)); } } Console.WriteLine("Executing query that will return many results. This can take a while..."); var qResult2 = from c in svc.CreateQuery <SampleEntity>(sampleTableName) where c.PartitionKey == "samplestring" select c; TableStorageDataServiceQuery <SampleEntity> tableStorageQuery = new TableStorageDataServiceQuery <SampleEntity>(qResult2 as DataServiceQuery <SampleEntity>); IEnumerable <SampleEntity> res = tableStorageQuery.ExecuteAllWithRetries(); Console.WriteLine("Retrieved query results:"); foreach (SampleEntity entity in res) { Console.WriteLine("Partition key: {0}, row key: {1}.", entity.PartitionKey, entity.RowKey); } Console.WriteLine("Delete all entries in the sample table."); DeleteAllEntriesFromSampleTable(tableStorage.GetDataServiceContext(), sampleTableName); tableStorage.DeleteTable(sampleTableName); Console.WriteLine("Table samples finished!"); } catch (DataServiceRequestException dsre) { Console.WriteLine("DataServiceRequestException: " + GetExceptionMessage(dsre)); ShowTableStorageErrorMessage(account.BaseUri.ToString()); } catch (InvalidOperationException ioe) { Console.WriteLine("Storage service error: " + GetExceptionMessage(ioe)); ShowTableStorageErrorMessage(account.BaseUri.ToString()); } }