Windows Azure Chat

5 ExploringWindowsAzureStorage - Exercise 1. In this exercise, you use the Windows Azure Table Service API to create a simple application that stores and retrieves data in structured storage. It consists of a simple chat Web application that can save, retrieve and display messages stored in a Windows Azure table.

Windows Azure tables store data as collections of entities. Entities are similar to rows. An entity has a primary key and a set of properties. A property is a name/value pair, similar to a column.

To access Windows Azure Table Service, you use a REST API that is compatible with WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services Framework). This exercise uses the WCF Data Services Client Library (formerly .NET Client Library) to read and write data to table service.

• Your name
• Message