In preparing for my talk on Azure Table Storage (ATS) at VSLive next month in Las Vegas, I've been working on a couple of simple demonstration pieces. One thing I wanted was a quick and easy to use interface to ATS for queries.

Mike Amundsen has a nice Console Application that is a good starting point but I wanted something more like his S[S]DS Provisioning Client. So, I've been doing some mods to his code and the result can be found at my rudimentary Azure Lookup. It's definitely a work in progress but it's a start.

At the moment you need to fill in the Endpoint, Account and Shared Key values. I'm considering modifying it to build the Endpoint based on the account and possibly saving the data in a cookie but this will work for now. It supports most of the gets. Errors, while trapped, get thrown back in an ugly fashion.  And getting the code to be able to allow for adding and editing data.

I'll definitely be adding some more to this over the next week or two. And I'll be releasing the source sometime before VSLive. Oh, and it all runs in the cloud in an Azure Project. But it doesn't have to. The class I've been modifying will work as well on an XP box.