tangible.AzureIO - small sample

Because I’m short on time at the moment, I’ll just post a tiny little sample on the AzureIO library. I promise to publish a larger sample soon. Maybe I can think of something really useful, we’ll see…

For the moment it’s just a simple WPF application that allows the user to select a file (#1 in the picture) and upload it to the Windows Azure BlobStorage (#2). As a proof that the file was really uploaded, the application displays the url of the blob where the file can be viewed in the browser.

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There’s not a lot of code behind this sample. At first it’s to mention that the AzureIO library requires a configuration setting in the app.config file. The connection string to the StorageAccount needs to be set there.

  1: <configuration>
  2:   <appSettings>
  3:     <addkey="StorageCredentials"value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true"/>
  4:   </appSettings>
  5: </configuration>

This configuration makes the application use the development storage of the Windows Azure SDK. To upload the file to the blob storage those three lines of code suffice:

  1: var fileName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(txtFile.Text);
  2: var content = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(txtFile.Text);
  3: tangible.AzureIO.File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, content);

Voilà – that’s it. Copy the displayed URL to your browser and get your file from the cloud!

Download the sample code here: AzureIOSample.zip