Upload Picture to Windows Azure Web Site

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 app that i want to deploy to Windows Azure. A part of this app involves uploading a picture. When the picture is uploaded, I want to store the pictur

Answer 1

Here is my as easy as it comes description of how to set this up in azure. http://geekswithblogs.net/MagnusKarlsson/archive/2012/12/02/how-to-use-azure-storage-for-images.aspx

//Edit; heres the complete example from my blog(if the blog dies). yourViewName.cshtml

 @model List  
 @{
     ViewBag.Title = "Index";
 }

 
Index
 


     Filename:
     
     

     Filename:
     
     

     Filename:
     
     

     Filename:
     
     

     

 

 @foreach (var item in Model) {

     
  }

Your controller action

public ActionResult Upload(IEnumerable file)
         {
             BlobHandler bh = new BlobHandler("containername");
             bh.Upload(file);
             var blobUris=bh.GetBlobs();

             return RedirectToAction("Index",blobUris);
         }

Your model

 public class BlobHandler
     {
         // Retrieve storage account from connection string.
         CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
         CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));

         private string imageDirecoryUrl; 

         /// 

         /// Receives the users Id for where the pictures are and creates 
         /// a blob storage with that name if it does not exist.
         /// 
         /// 
         public BlobHandler(string imageDirecoryUrl)
         {
             this.imageDirecoryUrl = imageDirecoryUrl;
             // Create the blob client.
             CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

             // Retrieve a reference to a container. 
             CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(imageDirecoryUrl);

             // Create the container if it doesn't already exist.
             container.CreateIfNotExists();

             //Make available to everyone
             container.SetPermissions(
                 new BlobContainerPermissions
                 {
                     PublicAccess = BlobContainerPublicAccessType.Blob
                 });
         }

         public void Upload(IEnumerable file)
         {
             // Create the blob client.
             CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

             // Retrieve a reference to a container. 
             CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(imageDirecoryUrl);

             if (file != null)
             {
                 foreach (var f in file)
                 {
                     if (f != null)
                     {
                         CloudBlockBlob blockBlob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(f.FileName);
                         blockBlob.UploadFromStream(f.InputStream);
                     }
                 }
             }
         }

         public List GetBlobs()
         {
             // Create the blob client. 
             CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

             // Retrieve reference to a previously created container.
             CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(imageDirecoryUrl);

             List blobs = new List();

             // Loop over blobs within the container and output the URI to each of them
             foreach (var blobItem in container.ListBlobs())
                 blobs.Add(blobItem.Uri.ToString());

             return blobs;
         }
     }