If you’re using Entity Framework with a legacy database then you may well have single character status flags in some of the columns such as “O” = Operational, “M” = Marketing. Ideally these would be numeric IDs that match to a separate status table which would allow the IDs to Read more…
In a similar vein to my post on storing complex properties of a TableEntity in Azure Table Storage it’s also possible to store Enum text values by using custom attributes to control serialization/deserialization. ReceiptRequestEntity.cs EntityEnumPropertyConverterAttribute.cs
If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. This works fine as long as long as the properties Read more…
Azure Table storage is a way of storing structured NoSQL data in the cloud, as such it’s more geared towards rapid read access rather than manipulation of data in the table. If you want to perform any operations such as updates or deletes on data in your table then the Read more…