This page documents building a Visual Studio project that uses an Azure Data Table. I will create several YouTube videos to describe the process.

Creating the Project

• Create an MVC project under "Projects" in Visual Studio.
• Add a GitHub repository to the project.
• Manage Nuget Packages... and install Azure.Core, Azure.Data.Tables, and Azure.Identity.
• Create a Model to represent the data stored in the table, for example, BlogModel. Every entry in the table is a blog entry. List all the properties of a Blog.
• Add comments to each property of BlogModel making it clear what the property stores. This is the same as descriptions in SharePoint.
• Create a class to handle the data connections, for example, BlogModels. In a larger application, the data layer would be in it's own folder, or even a separate project. For a small website, a single class to represent the data layer is sufficient.
• For each function (Create, Details, Delete, Edit, etc.) create a method in BlogModels that talks to the Data Table. 
• Each method of BlogModels must be static.
• Create a method that instantiates the Data Table as a TableEntity. This means your connection info can be exclusively in one method.
• The Populate method is where you assign properties from model to TableEntity.
• Add each function (Create, Details, Delete, Edit, etc.) to HomeController.cs.
• Right-click each function and click Add View to create the view.
• We won't get into CSS.
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• Under Options | Azure Service Authentication, choose an account. This allows you to use Microsoft Identity while in local development.

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