Using Azure Table storage from Silverlight

In order to demonstrate the use of Azure Table storage from Silverlight, we will create a system that allows news articles to be published and also displayed to the user. The system will allow news articles to have a published date set for them, so that the articles can be created in the past, or scheduled for the future. When a user displays the latest news articles, it will only display the ones that have a published date preceding the current date or time. In this way, articles will be automatically published when the current date or time passes the published date, and is returned in the query.

Two entities will be created for this system: NewsArticle that contains full information about a news article, and NewsArticleHeader that only contains the title and the published date. As the content of a news article may be extremely long, returning a list of them may require a lot of data to be transmitted. NewsArticleHeader will allow us to return...