title: Windows Azure Tables - Row Count?
body: <p>We have a few tables that sit in Azure Storage Tables (NOT Azure SQL Tables), and I cant find an easy way to give me a count of the number of rows in a table.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried calling .CreateQuery.Count(), but that simply returns:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?&gt;
  &lt;error xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"&gt;
    &lt;code&gt;InvalidInput&lt;/code&gt;
    &lt;message xml:lang="en-US"&gt;One of the request inputs is not valid.
  RequestId:c74f8b4c-4277-42f6-bb5d-0db187358e43
  Time:2011-12-21T10:34:12.5379616Z&lt;/message&gt;
  &lt;/error&gt;
  </code></pre>