Accessing data with Azure storage Blobs

In this recipe, we will display a picture stored in a Blob thanks to the storage account previously created in the last recipe.

Getting ready

We will use VS 2017 and a storage account with our Azure subscription.

How to do it...

1. First, let's connect to our Azure portal:

2. Next, we select the Azure storage created in the last recipe, and we select the Blob service:

3. Next, we click on the plus container button, and the new container panel appears. We add a name to the container and an access type (Blob or Container):

4. Now let's open Visual Studio, create an empty ASP.NET Core application with .NET Framework, and add the following directories: Controllers, Images, Models, Repository, and Views.

We also add the Home directory into the Views directory and a picture to upload and download from the Blob storage just created:

5. Next, we add the two NuGet packages manually in the project.json file, Microsoft.Azure.ConfigurationManager and WindowsAzure.Storage, to use the...