How do you exclude a property from being persisted in Azure Table storage?

Question

If I have a class like this:

    public class Facet : TableServiceEntity
{
    public Guid ParentId { get; set; }      
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Uri{ get; set; }
    public Facet Parent { get; set; }
}

Parent is derived from the ParentId Guid, and that relationship is intended to be filled in by my repository. So how do I tell Azure to leave that field alone? Is there an Ignore attribute of some type, or do I have to create an inherited class that provides those relationships instead?

Answer 1

Using latest Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage SDK (v6.2.0 and up), the attribute name has changed to IgnorePropertyAttribute :

public class MyEntity : TableEntity
{
     public string MyProperty { get; set; }

     [IgnoreProperty]
     public string MyIgnoredProperty { get; set; }
}