How can I create a CloudTableClient in .NET Core 2.2 app?

Question

This has been a mess for a big while with .NET Core 2!

I need A VERY simple thing - I need to use Table Storage in my .NET Core 2.2 app using Microsoft.Azure.CosmosDB.Table package. ok, let's do this, shall we?

First things first, let's create CloudTableClient :

using Microsoft.Azure.CosmosDB.Table;
using Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Common;

…

CloudTableClient tableClient = new CloudTableClient(
  new Uri("[WHAT TO PUT IN HERE in case of Azure and Emulator???]"),
  new Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Auth.StorageCredentials() // => **THIS DOES NOT EVEN COMPILE! Auth is not a part of the package **
);

NICE! Where do we go from here? Please don't point me to examples - they're not for .NET Core 2.2!

And let's not mix Microsoft.Azure.Storage and Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage packages!

When is this going to be fixed? How to create CloudTableClient and use the CloudTable?

Answer 1

This works perfectly fine:

var tableName = "TestTempTable";
var storageConnectionString = "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=....;AccountKey=....;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net";
var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(storageConnectionString);
var tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient(new TableClientConfiguration());
var table = tableClient.GetTableReference(tableName);
await table.CreateIfNotExistsAsync();

Answer 2

I have to conclude that there is no way of working with Azure Tables in .NET Core 2.x projects. Downgrading to some old packages or preview versions is not an option.