Mostly just a link to this article containing best practices. There’s some useful extension methods available from Microsoft.Extensions.Azure to make for easier dependency injection of the various Azure services. There’s also some good examples available here.
CsvHelper is handy for reading and writing CSV files but there’s no obvious way to write out a DataTable to a CSV file. Therefore in order to do this we need to loop through all the rows and columns of the DataTable and write the values as individual fields as Read more
Previously when I’ve wanted to read a blob from Azure Storage I’ve opened it as a CloudBlockBlob which allows you to read it using just OpenReadAsync(). If you want to use an ICloudBlob then you need to provide AccessCondition, BlobRequestOptions and OperationContext parameters, these can also be used with the Read more
In a similar vein to my post on storing complex properties of a TableEntity in Azure Table Storage it’s also possible to store Enum text values by using custom attributes to control serialization/deserialization.
If you have a blob in Azure Storage that you want to have a look at first before deciding whether to download it or not you can open up a stream from it and use a StreamReader to read as many rows as you want from it. In my case Read more
You can host images (or other files) in Azure Storage by making the container with them in public but if you want them to be private and only accessible to authorized users then you can either generate a short-lived SAS key granting read permissions on the blob or you can Read more
The Azure computer vision API can be used to retrieve information about an image including tags, descriptions and categories along with their associated confidence scores. The Microsoft quickstart guide to using this is here and my releated code is below. This retrieves an image file from Azure Storage and streams Read more
Azure Data Warehouse has a nice feature where it can access GZipped file blobs directly from Azure Storage as linked tables. The below code is for downloading zipped files from an SFTP site, extracting them, gzipping them and then uploading them to Azure Storage. This all takes place in memory Read more
If you want to host an FTP site in Azure there’s currently not a dedicated resource for this so the next best option is to spin up a virtual machine and use IIS for running the FTP site. It’s also possible to set the FTP site to use an Azure Read more
It’s possible to export an Azure SQL database to a BACPAC file using the Azure portal and PowerShell among other methods but the documentation makes no mention of doing this directly in .NET, though happily this is also possible. The process detailed below triggers a database export to a specified Read more