Working with queues
The client class for working with queues via .NET code is Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.CloudQueue
. The methods listed here are methods of this class, unless specified otherwise. The documentation for this library can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.storageclient.cloudqueue.aspx.
Documentation for the REST library for Queue Storage can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179363.aspx. The base URI for accessing queues via the REST API is http://<account>.queue.core.windows.net
. To perform an operation on a specific queue, the URI is http://<account>.queue.core.windows.net/<queue>
and the different HTTP verbs (PUT
, GET
, DELETE
) are used to determine the action.
When using the REST API, every operation has an optional timeout
parameter that sets the processing timeout of the operation. If the operation does not complete by the timeout, it will fail. The default value is 30 seconds, which...