In preparation for a two week series on Microsoft Azure and my talk at VSLive Las Vegas, I'm releasing my Azure REST-ful Interface. Point your SVN to http://reluctantdba.beanstalkapp.com/demonstrations/browse/trunk/AzureCommands and get the current version. It has both the class (Finsel.AzureCommands) and a sample WinForm app that test out all of the functionality.

While I'll be fully documenting it this weekend, just a couple of quick notes here. Most of the class returns an azureResults object. This object contains:

 Microsoft's latest Cloud Computing offering is called Azure. (You can sign up for an account here if you want to follow along.) Azure is made up of two different parts: Azure Hosted Services and Azure Storage Accounts. Over the course of these blog posts, we'll be covering both and how to access them using a library that can be used with VS2005 from XP, but we're going to start with a quick overview of Azure Storage Accounts today.  The next part will cover the basics of authentication and how it differs between Azure Storage bits. Parts 3-5 of this series will cover using a REST-ful library to access each of these in turn. Part 6 will introduce Azure Hosted Services and Parts 7 and 8 will go into those in more depth.  But first, an Azure Storage Accounts is made up of three components: Azure Table Storage (ATS), Azure Blob Storage (ABS) and Azure Queue Storage (AQS).

Azure Table Storage (ATS) Azure Table Storage (ATS) is a slightly misnamed tool. It's really 

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