Azure storage emulator - blob creation gives 403 Forbidden message

Question

I am attempting to use the Azure Storage Emulator to work with blob storage. I just cannot seem to get it to work and have wasted an entire day trying without success. I kee

Answer 1

I figured it out!! Or more appropriately I found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17500876/1400153

In the code I posted above, I changed the lines

// Retrieve storage account from connection string
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["EmulatorStorageConnectionString"]);

to

var connectionString = "UseDevelopmentStorage=true";
var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);

That is literally the only change I made to the code.

In addition, I right clicked the emulator icon in the windows taskbar > Show storage emulator UI, and I clicked the Reset button. Not sure if this helped, I'm just documenting the two things I did for the next guy who gets stuck on this.

And now it works...

Quite frankly I am a little annoyed that the original code did not work. After all, the MSDN article by Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh403989.aspx) clearly states we should use:

Account name: devstoreaccount1 Account key: Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==

So why the heck did that not work? That article was updated July 2012 so it is not exactly outdated. So many hours wasted... but at least I can go to sleep now knowing that I finally got something working :)