Using Autofac for Azure Table Storage with C# ASP.Net Core MVC 3.0

Azure Table Storage DI

Using Azure Table Storage is a very cost effective way to run a cloud hosted database in Microsoft Azure. The question is, how to we manage the DI.

Enter “Autofac”

We’ve of course all heard of Autofac, so I won’t explain the benefits of their framework.

Implementation Steps

• Create our data model.

• Create our CRUD repository and inject an Azure CloudTable into the constructor.

• Create our CRUD service layer and inject the repository into the constructor.

• Implement a module to configure Azure Table Storage using Autofac’s DI layer, in four steps -

1. Create an Azure Storage Account:

2. Configure our service layer and our Azure Cloud Table:

3. Configure our repository to use our Azure Cloud Table:

• Configure Startup.cs file to use the Azure Table Storage Autofac module we’ve built.

• Configure Program.cs file to use Autofac.

• Utilise our CRUD service at the controller level in ASP.Net MVC Core 3.0.

• View our Azure Table Storage NoSQL database to verify our implementation.

Enjoy!