An alternative way to use Azure Table Storage?

I'd like to use for table storage an entity like this:

public class MyEntity
{
    public String Text { get; private set; }
    public Int32 SomeValue { get; private set; }

    public MyEntity(String text, Int32 someValue)
    {
        Text = text;
        SomeValue = someValue;
    }
}

But it's not possible, because the ATS needs

1. Parameterless constructor
2. All properties public and read/write.
3. Inherit from TableServiceEntity;

The first two, are two things I don't want to do. Why should I want that anybody could change some data that should be readonly? or create objects of this kind in a inconsistent way (what are .ctor's for then?), or even worst, alter the PartitionKey or the RowKey. Why are we still constrained by these deserialization requirements?

I don't like develop software in that way, how can I use table storage library in a way that I can serialize and deserialize myself the objects? I think that as long the objects inherits from TableServiceEntity it shouldn't be a problem.

So far I got to save an object, but I don't know how retrieve it:

            Message m = new Message("message XXXXXXXXXXXXX");

            CloudTableClient tableClient = account.CreateCloudTableClient();
            tableClient.CreateTableIfNotExist("Messages");
            TableServiceContext tcontext = new TableServiceContext(account.TableEndpoint.AbsoluteUri, account.Credentials);

            var list = tableClient.ListTables().ToArray();

            tcontext.AddObject("Messages", m);
            tcontext.SaveChanges();

Is there any way to avoid those deserialization requirements or get the raw object?

Cheers.

The constraints around that ADO.NET wrapper for the Table Storage are indeed somewhat painful. You can also adopt a Fat Entity approach as implemented in Lokad.Cloud. This will give you much more flexibility concerning the serialization of your entities.