Tag: Azure storage blobs

My last couple posts covered the basics of Azure storage. See, Windows Azure Training Series:  Understanding Azure Storage and Windows Azure Training Series:  Creating an Azure Storage Account. Now let’s write some code. Accessing Blob Storage Blob storage is accessed using the CloudBlobClient class. When creating it, specify the configuration information, as shown in the last post. […]

In this blog post, I assume you already have an Azure subscription and a user account set up. If you do not, check out Windows Azure Training Series:  Understanding Subscriptions and Users. You might also like to read Windows Azure Training Series: Understanding Azure Storage for an overview of Azure storage. Creating a new Azure storage account […]

Windows Azure Storage Choices There are a couple common ways of storing data when using Microsoft Windows Azure. One is SQL Azure, which is a cloud-based version of Microsoft SQL Server. The other is Azure storage. SQL Azure will be familiar to those who already understand relational databases. It may also make moving an application […]

Software applications often need to store data and applications written for Windows Azure are no exception. Windows Azure provides three types of storage: queues, blobs and tables. As we have already seen something about queues in a prior post we now turn our attention to blobs and tables. Part 1 will cover blobs and Part […]