What is the difference between the Microsoft.Azure.Storage and WindowsAzure.Storage Nuget packages?

Question

I\'ve always found this very confusing. There is a WindowsAzure.Storage Nuget package authored by Microsoft which allows you to work with, for example, blob storage (creati

Answer 1

There are now three levels:

1. WindowsAzure.Storage - up to v9.3.3 - don't use this anymore.
2. Microsoft.Azure.Storage - v9.4.0 to v11.1.7 - older
3. Azure.Storage - v12.x - use this library.

All the Azure libraries are being consolidated into the Azure namespace, so the newer libraries all start with Azure (not Microsoft.Azure or WindowsAzure) and you should use those when available.