How to connect azure development storage in f#?

Question

At the moment I'm struggling to connect and do operation in f# against the local azure table storage (developmentstorage).

The only method I could find to connect with the storage Auth.StorageCredentials(accountName, accountKey) doesn't seem to accept the developmentstorage=true string I'm using in the C# parse method.

I tried to use the corresponding account name and key (devstoreaccount1, Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==) but didn't worked.

Any idea on how to solve the issue?

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Gaurav Mantri Gaurav Mantri · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07T02:34:24

You can use CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount to get a reference to a CloudStorageAccount object which points to development storage account.

open Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage
open Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Auth

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 
    let cloudStorageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount;
    let cloudTableClient = cloudStorageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();
    let tableName = "dummy";
    let table = cloudTableClient.GetTableReference(tableName);
    let tableCreated = table.CreateIfNotExists();

How to connect azure development storage in f#?

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