Azure Development with Visual Studio

Azure Storage Tables Azure Storage is a non-relational (NoSQL) entity storage service on Microsoft Azure. When you create a storage account, it includes the Table service alongside the Blob and Queue services. Table services can be accessed through a URL format. It looks like this: http://<storage account name>.table.core.windows.net/<table name>. There are many forms of NoSQL databases: ■ Key-value stores that organize data with a unique key per record and often allow for jagged entries where each row might not have a complete set of values. ■ Document databases that are similar to key-value stores with semi-structured, easy-to query documents. Usually, information is stored in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. ■ Columns stores that are used to organize large amounts of distributed information. ■ Graph databases that do not use columns and rows; instead, they use a graph model for storage and query, usually for large amounts of hi...

Reading Azure Storage Blobs using Visual Studio 2017 You can also use Server Manager in Visual Studio 2017 to view the contents of your blob containers and upload or download files. 1. Navigate to the blob storage account that you want to use. 2. Double-click the blob storage account to open a window showing a list of blobs and providing functionality to upload or download blobs. Changing data You can modify the contents of a blob or delete a blob using the Storage API directly, but it is more common to do this programmatically as part of an application, for example using the Storage Client Library. The following steps illustrate how to update a blob programmatically. Note that this example uses a block blob. 1. File à Open ->Project à Open visual studio 2017 and Create C# Console application as shown below screen shot. 2.   In your app.config file, create a storage configuration string and entry, replacing AccountName (storage acco...

Implement Azure Storage Blobs and files   Azure blob storage is a storage type of the azure Storage account.  Go through my previous post about Azure Storage Accounts here . Azure blob storage is the place to store unstructured data of many varieties. You can store  images, video files, word documents, lab results, and any other binary file you can think of. In addition, Azure uses blob storage extensively. For instance, when you mount extra logical  drives in an Azure virtual machine (VM), the drive image is actually stored in by the Blob service associated with an Azure blob storage account. In a blob storage account, you can have many containers. Containers are similar to folders in that you can use them to logically group your files. You can also set security on the entire container. Each blob storage account can store up to 500 terabytes of data. All blobs can be accessed through a URL format. It looks like this: http://<storage account n...

Storage Accounts Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database both play an important role in the Microsoft Azure  Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategy for storage. Azure Storage enables storage and retrieval of large amounts of unstructured data. You can store content flies such as documents and media in the Blob service, use the Table service for NoSQL data, use the Queue service for reliable messages, and use the File service for Server Message Block (SMB) file share scenarios. Azure SQL Database provides classic relational database features as part of elastic scale service. Azure provides four different types of Storage types:                 ·          Blobs ·          Files ·          Tables ·          Queues How to Create Storage...