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Deleting an item from a Azure Storage Table

In case you are new to the Azure Storage Tables, we've reviewed the following items this week:

• Creating your first Azure Storage Table (opens new window)
• Adding an item to a Azure Storage Table (opens new window)
• Reading an item from a Azure Storage Table (opens new window)
• Updating an item from a Azure Storage Table (opens new window)
• Deleting an item from a Azure Storage Table (opens new window)]

Today, we'll be taking a look at deleting an item through C# code into an Azure Storage Table.

Getting Started

Open the C# Console application that we were working with last week (opens new window) and let's add a method to:

• Delete an item based off of the table, RowKey and PartitionKey that we pass in.

Delete an item

In our Program.cs file, we'll now add in a helper method that passes in a table, RowKey and PartitionKey to identify the message we want to delete.

static void DeleteMessage(TableClient table, string partitionKey, string rowKey)
{
    table.DeleteEntity(partitionKey, rowKey);
}

In this example, we retrieve the message and then delete the entity.

Putting it all together.

The Main method inside of the Program.cs file, we'll call our helper method.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var serviceClient = new TableServiceClient(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StorageConnection"]);

    TableClient table = serviceClient.GetTableClient("thankfulfor");
    table.CreateIfNotExists();

    //added these lines
    DeleteMessage(table, "ThanksApp", "I am thankful for the time with my family");
    Console.ReadKey();
}