How to download a file to browser from Azure Blob Storage

Question

I\'m already successfully listing available files, but I needed to know how I could pass that file down to the browser for a user to download without necessarily saving it t

Answer 1

I have done a sample where you can upload and download blob file.

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Azure.Storage;
using Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace GetBackup
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            string Config_string = "";

            using (StreamReader SourceReader = File.OpenText(@"appsettings.json"))
            {
                Config_string = await SourceReader.ReadToEndAsync();
            }

            var config = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Config_string);

            if(config["Application_type"].ToString()== "Backup")
            {
                string Dir_path = config["Backup_Path"].ToString();
                string[] allfiles = Directory.GetFiles(Dir_path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);


                string storageConnectionString = config["AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING"].ToString();
                CloudStorageAccount storageAccount;
                if (CloudStorageAccount.TryParse(storageConnectionString, out storageAccount))
                {
                    CloudBlobClient cloudBlobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
                    CloudBlobContainer cloudBlobContainer = cloudBlobClient.GetContainerReference("rtddata");
                    //await cloudBlobContainer.CreateAsync();

                    string[] ExcludeFiles = config["Exception_File"].ToString().Split(',');

                    foreach (var file in allfiles)
                    {
                        FileInfo info = new FileInfo(file);
                        if (!ExcludeFiles.Contains(info.Name))
                        {
                            string folder = (Dir_path.Length < info.DirectoryName.Length) ? info.DirectoryName.Replace(Dir_path, "") : "";
                            folder = (folder.Length > 0) ? folder + "/" : "";
                            CloudBlockBlob cloudBlockBlob = cloudBlobContainer.GetBlockBlobReference(folder + info.Name);
                            await cloudBlockBlob.UploadFromFileAsync(info.FullName);
                        }

                    }

                }
            }
            
            else if (config["Application_type"].ToString() == "Restore")
            {
                string storageConnectionString = config["AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING"].ToString();
                CloudStorageAccount storageAccount;
               
                if (CloudStorageAccount.TryParse(storageConnectionString, out storageAccount))
                {
                    CloudBlobClient cloudBlobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
                    CloudBlobContainer cloudBlobContainer = cloudBlobClient.GetContainerReference("rtddata");
                    string Dir_path = config["Restore_Path"].ToString();

                    IEnumerable results = cloudBlobContainer.ListBlobs(null,true);  
                    foreach (IListBlobItem item in results)
                    {
                        string name = ((CloudBlockBlob)item).Name;
                        if (name.Contains('/'))
                        {
                            string[] subfolder = name.Split('/');
                            if (!Directory.Exists(Dir_path + subfolder[0]))
                            {
                                Directory.CreateDirectory(Dir_path + subfolder[0]);
                            }
                            
                        }  
                            CloudBlockBlob blockBlob = cloudBlobContainer.GetBlockBlobReference(name);
                            string path = (Dir_path + name);
                            blockBlob.DownloadToFile(path, FileMode.Create);
                    }
                    

                }
                    
            }

            
            
        }
    }
}