Intro

This page has information on C# code for accessing Azure Storage Accounts.

A lot of the examples here come from Microsoft's "Store application data with Azure Blob storage" training course. 

Code is available here:

git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mslearn-store-data-in-azure.git

Step-By-Step Guide

• Add a reference to the application's project to use Azure's Storage SDK and download that NuGet package.

dotnet add package WindowsAzure.Storage
dotnet restore

• To use the classes in that package, you must include them in your C# program.

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;

• Instantiate the storage account and parse the connection string (which contains the access keys to the storage account).

public Task Initialize(){
    CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(storageConfig.ConnectionString);
    CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
    CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(storageConfig.FileContainerName);
    return container.CreateIfNotExistsAsync();
}

Related Articles

• Microsoft's "Store application data with Azure Blob storage"