How to track progress of async file upload to azure storage

Question

Is there way to track the file upload progress to an Azure storage container? I am trying to make a console application for uploading data to Azure using C#.

My c

Answer 1

Gaurav's solution works well and is very similar to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2011/05/30/asynchronous-parallel-block-blob-transfers-with-progress-change-notification.aspx. The challenge with this code is that you are doing a lot of complex work with very little error handling. I am not saying there is anything wrong with Gaurav's code - it looks solid - but especially with network related communication code there are lots of variables and lots of issues that you have to account for.

For this reason I modified my original blog to use the upload code from the storage client library (under the assumption that the code coming from the Azure Storage team was more robust than anything I could write) and track progress using a ProgressStream class. You can see the updated code at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2013/03/06/asynchronous-parallel-block-blob-transfers-with-progress-change-notification-2-0.aspx.