Azure CosmosDB Table API - table.CreateIfNotExists() call hanging

Question

I've downloaded and ran the Quickstart application successfully but I can't get things to work from my web application. (when I call table.CreateIfNotExists(), execution just hangs indefinitely). It's clearly a conflict with another library but I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact issue.

I've tried everything i can think of (including removing and re-installing the WindowsAzure.Storage-PremiumTable 0.1.0-preview library and installing) but to no avail. The suspect the conflict is related to the Microsoft.AspNet.OData library (for oData v4), which I also need in my project. It has some dependencies to Microsoft.Extensions.. (>= 1.0.0 && < 2.0.0) which I've read from another user online was the cause of a similar issue which was fixed by upgrading to v2.0). In any case, I can't upgrade these because of Microsoft.AspNet.OData's dependency.

Below is the output window when successful (from quickstart app or another application that has minimal additional libraries):

DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : TimerPool Created with minSupportedTimerDelayInSeconds = 60
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RntbdConnectionDispenser: requestTimeoutInSeconds: 60, openTimeoutInSeconds: 0, timerValueInSeconds: 60
DocDBTrace Error: 0 : DocumentClientException with status code: NotFound, message: Message: {"Errors":["Resource Not Found"]}
ActivityId: eed42269-739c-43cd-a964-e8addb2c0a29, Request URI: /apps/cbec8afc-ed09-4565-be2a-46723dded3c3/services/ad31a99f-f874-4862-9dd4-60af25fbc416/partitions/4fd158a1-3b2f-4d61-8ee1-9ee8767d13c1/replicas/131504437541513138s, and response headers: {
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"x-ms-last-state-change-utc": "Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:02:14.321 GMT",
"x-ms-schemaversion": "1.3",
"x-ms-xp-role": "2",
"x-ms-global-Committed-lsn": "39",
"x-ms-number-of-read-regions": "0",
"x-ms-request-charge": "2",
"x-ms-serviceversion": "version=1.17.52.1",
"x-ms-activity-id": "eed42269-739c-43cd-a964-e8addb2c0a29",
"x-ms-session-token": "0:40",
"Strict-Transport-Security": "max-age=31536000",
"x-ms-gatewayversion": "version=1.17.52.1",
"Date": "Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:44:45 GMT",
"Server": "Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0",
}

And here's the output window from my project when I call table.CreateIfNotExists(), i.e the issue:

DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : TimerPool Created with minSupportedTimerDelayInSeconds = 60
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RntbdConnectionDispenser: requestTimeoutInSeconds: 60, openTimeoutInSeconds: 0, timerValueInSeconds: 60
DocDBTrace Warning: 0 : Endpoint not reachable. Refresh cache and retry
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : MarkEndpointUnavailable() read EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ write EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RefreshLocationAsync() refreshing locations
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Warning: 0 : Endpoint not reachable. Refresh cache and retry
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : MarkEndpointUnavailable() read EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ write EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RefreshLocationAsync() refreshing locations
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Warning: 0 : Endpoint not reachable. Refresh cache and retry
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : MarkEndpointUnavailable() read EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ write EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RefreshLocationAsync() refreshing locations
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Warning: 0 : Endpoint not reachable. Refresh cache and retry
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : MarkEndpointUnavailable() read EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ write EP = https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : RefreshLocationAsync() refreshing locations
DocDBTrace Information: 0 : Set WriteEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/ ReadEndpoint https://trfk-cosmos1-neu-northeurope.documents.azure.com/

Answer 1

Converting to async should fix that issue.

await table.CreateIfNotExistsAsync();