OpenReadAsync – bitScry

Reading Data from an ICloudBlob

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…

By Shinigami, 6 years ago

Programming

Reading the Header Row of a Blob in Azure Storage

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…

By Shinigami, 6 years ago