Question

I have the following class:

public class Menu : TableServiceEntity
{

    public string Order { get; set; }
    public string Text { get; set; }
    public int    Length { get; set; }
}

I would like to retrieve only the PartitionKey, RowKey, Order and Length data from my TableStorage.

Is there some way that I can just retrieve this data or do I still need to retrieve everything. The reason I ask is because the Text field contains some large amounts of data and I would like to minimize what is retrieved to just what I need.

Please note this is not SQL Azure storage. Thanks

Answer 1

From the 2011-08-18 version you can use the query projection (LINQ Select).

var context = cloudTableClient.GetDataServiceContext();
context.CreateQuery<Menu>().Select(...);

Check this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd135725.aspx