Add or replace entity in Azure Table Storage

Question

I\'m working with Windows Azure Table Storage and have a simple requirement: add a new row, overwriting any existing row with that PartitionKey/RowKey. However, saving the c

Answer 1

in my case it was not allowed to remove it first, thus I do it like this, this will result in one transaction to server which will first remove existing object and than add new one, removing need to copy property values

       var existing = from e in _ServiceContext.AgentTable
                       where e.PartitionKey == item.PartitionKey
                             && e.RowKey == item.RowKey
                       select e;

        _ServiceContext.IgnoreResourceNotFoundException = true;
        var existingObject = existing.FirstOrDefault();

        if (existingObject != null)
        {
            _ServiceContext.DeleteObject(existingObject);
        }

        _ServiceContext.AddObject(AgentConfigTableServiceContext.AgetnConfigTableName, item);

        _ServiceContext.SaveChangesWithRetries();
        _ServiceContext.IgnoreResourceNotFoundException = false;