The Windows Azure Storage Service REST API provides the definitive way to access the Windows Azure Storage Service. It provides platform independence for the storage service allowing it to be accessed from any platform capable of using a RESTful interface.
Microsoft also provides the Windows Azure Storage Client Library that simplifies access to the storage service from a managed .NET environment. The high-level classes in this library are in the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient namespace. These classes hide from the complexity of dealing with the raw HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes used with the Storage Service REST API. However, this simplicity comes at the cost of hiding some features of the storage service.
The Storage Client library also provides a set of lower-level managed classes in the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Protocol namespace that expose the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse...