Blob Storage

There are two mechanisms for accessing Blob storage – the REST-ful Blob Storage API and a .NET client library called the StorageClient Library. Documentation for the REST-ful API can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd135733.aspx, whereas the StorageClient Library documentation can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee741723.aspx.

Representational State Transfer

What is REST? REST stands for Representational State Transfer, and even if the term is not familiar, the concepts probably are. REST architecture forms the basis for the World Wide Web. In REST, a client sends a document to a server, called as request, and the server replies with another document, called as response. Both the request and the response documents are "representations" of either the current or intended "state". The state in this context is the sum total of the information on the server. A request to list all the posts in a forum receives a response describing the current...