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

Insert/Merge or Update was added to the API in September 2011. Here is an example using the Storage API 2.0 which is easier to understand then the way it is done in the 1.7 api and earlier.

public void InsertOrReplace(ITableEntity entity)
    {
        retryPolicy.ExecuteAction(
            () =>
            {
                try
                {
                    TableOperation operation = TableOperation.InsertOrReplace(entity);
                    cloudTable.Execute(operation);
                }
                catch (StorageException e)
                {
                    string message = "InsertOrReplace entity failed.";

                    if (e.RequestInformation.HttpStatusCode == 404)
                    {
                        message += " Make sure the table is created.";
                    }

                    // do something with message
                }
            });
    }