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How To Upload and Download Files Programmatically To Azure Blob Storage Using

This document provides code examples for uploading and downloading files to Azure blob storage from a VB.NET application. It shows how to connect to Azure storage, list files and folders, create shared access signatures, get blob properties, read and write blobs, upload and delete blobs, rename blobs, and download blobs. The source code for the project is provided in a GitHub repository.

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How To Upload and Download Files Programmatically To Azure Blob Storage Using

This document provides code examples for uploading and downloading files to Azure blob storage from a VB.NET application. It shows how to connect to Azure storage, list files and folders, create shared access signatures, get blob properties, read and write blobs, upload and delete blobs, rename blobs, and download blobs. The source code for the project is provided in a GitHub repository.

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How to Upload and Download Files Pragmatically to Azure Blob Storage using VB.

Net

In this tutorial I’m going to show how to:

• Connect to Azure Storage


• List files/folders (CloudBlockBlob/CloudBlobDirectory) within an Azure File Storage
• Create a Shared Access Signature for a Blob
• Obtain Blob properties
• Read content from a Blob
• Write content to a Blob
• Upload a Blob to Azure File Storage
• Delete a Blob
• Rename/Move a Blob
• Download a Blob

Source code for this Project can be found here:


https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage

You can fid the Part 1 of this tutorial here:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/AzureTutorials/blob/master/Azure%20File%20Storage%
20Overview.pdf

Patrick Sameera Jayalath


At the end of this tutorial we will be ending up a UI like bellow.

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To get start we will be creating an ASP.Net Web Project.
• Language – VB.Net

In the Solution Explorer, right click on the Project and select Manage NuGet Packages.

Under Browse tab Search for Microsoft.Azure.Stroage.Blob and on the results Select it and Click
Install.

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For this tutorial we will be using the same File Storage Account we created earlier tutorial. You can
find the tutorial here:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/AzureTutorials/blob/master/Azure%20File%20Storage%
20Overview.pdf

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We will be storing all Storage Account related information in Web.config.

Web.config

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Web.config

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Web.config#L5

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You can get the connection string from "Access Keys" tab.

You can get the Blob URL from "Properties" tab.

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Default.aspx

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx

Default.aspx.vb

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb

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Code Snippets:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb

Code 01 - Connect to Azure Storage

Bellow configurations will be read from web.config.

• File Storage Account name – [key="storage:accountName"]


• File Storage key – [key="storage:key"]
• File Storage URI – [key="storage:uri"]
• File Storage Container name – [key="storage:containerName"]
• File Storage directory – [key="storage:directoryUploadDocs"]

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Web.config#L5

Connect to Azure File Storage by retrieving the config values from we.b.config

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L16

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L151

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Code 02 - List files/folders (CloudBlockBlob/CloudBlobDirectory) within an Azure File Storage

On Page_Load we have called ShowDocumentList() function. It will read configuration from


web.config and connect to Azure File Storage and list all the Blobs.

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L8

Read list of Blobs:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L23

Iterate through Blobs:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L42

Iterate through Directories:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L100

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Code 03 - Write content to a Blob

Write content to Blob:

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L238

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Code 04 - Create a Shared Access Signature for a Blob

Generate SharedAccessBlobPolicy which has:

• Read access
• Expiry time of 20 minutes

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L69

Code 05 - Obtain Blob properties

Retrieve Blob properties like:

• Blob size
• Blob last modified date

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L92

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Code 06 - Upload a Blob to Azure File Storage

Upload a Blob with:

• Check if the Blob already exists


• Upload the Blob as an InputStream

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L163

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Code 07 - Read content from a Blob

Read Blob content using StreamReader and Writes to a TextArea.

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L82

Code 08 - Delete a Blob

Delete a Blob with:

• Check if the Blob already exists


• Delete Blob

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L209

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Code 09 - Rename/Move a Blob

Rename functionality:

• First create a new file copy using existing old file


• Next delete the existing old file

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L281

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Code 10 - Download a Blob

In this example I have shown 3 ways how we can Download a Blob.

• Download to a file – DownloadFile()


• Writing to MemoryStream and FileStream
• Using Response.Redirect

https://github.com/patricksameerajayalath/Azure.FileStorage/blob/master/Default.aspx.vb#L321

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