Exception of type 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.StorageClientException' was thrown.

Question

Exception of type 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.StorageClientException' was thrown.

Sometimes even if we have the fabric running and the role manager is up, we get an exception of this sort.

The code breaks at the line emailAddressClient.CreateTableIfNotExist("EmailAddress");

 public EmailAddressDataContext(CloudStorageAccount account) :
            base(account.TableEndpoint.AbsoluteUri, account.Credentials)
        {
            this.storageAccount = account;

            CloudTableClient emailAddressClient =
                new CloudTableClient(storageAccount.TableEndpoint.AbsoluteUri, storageAccount.Credentials);
            emailAddressClient.CreateTableIfNotExist("EmailAddress");
        }

Answer 1

Easy fix is to change "EmailAddress" to "Emailaddress". For some reasons it would not allow CamelCasing. So please make sure, you just have one capital letter in the name of the table that too at the beginning. Since the table names are case insensitive, you can also name it as 'emailaddress'

Answer 2

I give Windows Azure tables camel-cased names all the time without issues.

I wonder if by chance you already used this table name and recently deleted it? For a time after deletion (when the table is still being deleted asynchronously), you won't be able to recreate it. I believe 409 Conflict is the error code to expect in that case.