C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

Using the Azure Storage Client

We'll start by uploading a file into Azure Storage. The first step is to download the NuGet package for client access to Azure Storage:

Install-Package WindowsAzure.Storage

Then, we can create the method to upload the file:

public async Task UploadFile(string fullPath){    string fileName = Path.GetFileName(fullPath);    var blob = GetBlockBlobReference(fileName);    using (var fileStream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(fullPath))    {        await blob.UploadFromStreamAsync(fileStream);    }}

The preceding code is basically getting a reference to the file in Azure (even though it doesn't exist) and uploading the stream. We should probably have a look at the helper method, that is, GetBlockBlobReference:

private CloudBlockBlob GetBlockBlobReference(string ...