azure-storage-blobs

I'm trying to implement a fully asynchronous blob download with .NET 4.5 async & await. Let's assume the entire blob can fit in memory at once, and we want to hold it in a string . Code: public async Task<string> DownloadTextAsync(ICloudBlob blob) { using (Stream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) { IAsyncResult asyncResult = blob.BeginDownloadToStream(memoryStream, null, null); await Task.Factory.FromAsync(asyncResult, (r) => { blob.EndDownloadToStream(r); }); memoryStream.Position = 0; using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(memoryStream)) { // is this good enough? return

I store data in Azure Storage tables and blob storage. I would like to automatically backup my data to protect against accidental data corruption by users or by a software issue. There isn't a good solution for this from Microsoft and, while there are paid solutions for automatic backups, it seems like there should be a straight-forward way to backup and restore this data. After doing a lot of research on the best way to automatically backup data, I found that the easiest way to do this is to schedule a job in the Windows Task Scheduler on an Azure virtual machine that uses AZCopy. AZCopy does

UPD: Here is my implemented solution to this problem I'm trying to upload to Azure blob storage via Azure.Storage library (not REST API) and authenticating via Shared Access Key. I have seen this blog post , but the API has changed since the post and now I can't get the same result. Here is what I have: var blobClient = new CloudBlobClient(new Uri(blobWithSas.BaseUri), new StorageCredentials(blobWithSas.Sas)); // here I receive 404 error var blob = blobClient.GetBlobReferenceFromServer(new Uri(blobWithSas.AbsoluteUri)); using (var stream = new FileStream(fullFilePath, FileMode.Open)) { blob

I created an Azure Storage account. I have a 400 megabytes .zip file that I want to put into blob storage for later use. How can I do that without writing code? Is there some interface for that? Free tools: Visual Studio 2010 -- install Azure tools and you can find the blobs in the Server Explorer Cloud Berry Lab's CloudBerry Explorer for Azure Blob Storage ClumpsyLeaf CloudXplorer Azure Storage Explorer from CodePlex (try version 4 beta) There was an old program called Azure Blob Explorer or something that no longer works with the new Azure SDK. Out of these, I personally like CloudBerry

How to set permission to not create container, while generating Account SAS token? Here is my settings. // Create a new access policy for the account. SharedAccessAccountPolicy policy = new SharedAccessAccountPolicy() { Permissions = SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Read | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Write, Services = SharedAccessAccountServices.Blob | SharedAccessAccountServices.Table, ResourceTypes = SharedAccessAccountResourceTypes.Service | SharedAccessAccountResourceTypes.Container | SharedAccessAccountResourceTypes.Object, SharedAccessExpiryTime = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(2),