Connecting to the Azure Cloud storage from local Visual Studio environment

In both of the previous recipes, you learned how to create and execute Azure Functions in a local environment. We have triggered the function from a local browser. However, in this recipe, you will learn how to trigger an Azure Function in your local environment when an event occurs in Azure. For example, when a new Blob is created in a storage account, you can have your function triggered on your local machine. This helps the developers test their applications upfront before they deploy them to the production environment.

Getting ready

1. Create a storage account and a container named cookbookfiles in Azure.
2. Install Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer from http://storageexplorer.com/.

How to do it...

1. Open the FunctionAppInVisualStudio Azure Function app in Visual Studio and add a new function named BlobTriggerCSharp, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. In the storage account connection, provide AzureWebJobsStorage as the...