Table items are not ordered properly after upgrading to Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 4.0.0

Question

I have a C # .NET web API project that works with Azure table storage. Some of the methods return lists of various table elements. Until I switched to Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 4.0.0, everything worked perfectly. Now only the base properties (PartitionKey, RowKey, Timestamp and ETag) are returned, and my own custom properties are ignored, i.e. Not serialized.

I note that there is an entry in the change log for Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 4.0.0, which seems to have something, do the following:

• Tables: TableEntity is serialized through the ISerializable interface.

In response to this, I tried to decorate the table entity class with [Serializable] and my custom properties with [DataMember]. Example:

[Serializable]
public class UserGroup : TableEntity
{
    public UserGroup(String PartitionKey, String RowKey)
        : base(PartitionKey, RowKey)
    {
        this.PartitionKey = PartitionKey;
        this.RowKey = RowKey;
    }

    public UserGroup()
    {
    }

    [DataMember]
    public String Name { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public String ShortName { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public String LicenseGuid { get; set; }
}

However, only the base properties and my custom properties (Name, ShortName and LicenseGuid) are returned and are not included in the JSON response from the Web API method.

Any ideas? (Now I will return to Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 3.2.1)

Answer 1

This issue is now fixed in our latest version, which you can get here - http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage