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

There are some good answers here already that tell you exactly how to do what you need. Allow me to propose an alternative if you don't mind.

Personally, to solve problems such as yours, I turn to Azure Blob Storage. Blob storage is an extremely cheap and fast method of storing binary files (in a folder type structure) completely separate from the VM your cloud service is currently running on.

This will allow you some additional freedom when migrating or developing against your existing application since you don't have to migrate your uploads along with each deployment. Blob storage files are also triple-replicated across multiple Azure datacenters at no additional cost to you and are much more fault tolerant than your deployment VM.

Moving to Blob Storage will also allow you to access your files when your site is offline or your VM is down.

You are no longer operating in the realm of shared computing where all resources must exist on the same machine. Azure was built for scalability and separation of resources. Blob storage was designed specifically for what you are trying to do here.