Question

I would like to use the Azure Table Storage Service from an Azure Web Site (not a Cloud Service). There is guides on how to do this using Node.js but I like to use .NET MVC instead.

All the guides for .NET talks about storing the Azure Storage connection information in the ServiceConfiguration (as you do in a Cloud Service) but in an Azure Web site I do not have this (just a Web.config). If I am not mistaken it is also not possible to use the RoleEnvironment (used to read from the ServiceConfiguration) without running in the Azure emulator and I do not do this in an AzureWeb Site.

Is it possible to access the Table Storage from an Azure Web Site and if so how do I connect to it?

I have looked at this question and it does not look similar.

Answer 1

You can simply get the connection string from the web.config and parse it (note that you can also use the CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting method):

var connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["myStorageAccountConnectionString"];
var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);
var tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();

And in your web.config you will need to add the connection string like this:

  <appSettings>
    <add key="myStorageAccountConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=myaccount;AccountKey=fazfazefazefzeefazeefazfazefazef"/>
  </appSettings>