Windows Azure Tips

When uploading a file to blob, you have to specify "metadata".

Here, plain text can not be used, you have to use UrlEncode to encode it.

For example,

metadata["File Name"] = fileName will get ERRORS in runtime.

You should use:

metadata[System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode("File Name")] = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(fileName);

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Due to requirements I've developed a local tool that can upload/download any file to/from Windows Azure Storage using C#. And I've registered http://sap.blob.core.windows.net and http://intel.blob.core.windows.net lol

Windows Azure Network Disk

I've finished developing a prototype of Network Disk on Azure, and already deployed on http://edmondliu.cloudapp.net

Using this I'm able to upload and download up to 50GB data from Azure.

The upload/download logic is deployed in an Azure Hosted Service project, the data is stored in an Azure storage project.

Windows Azure Platform

Recently I've been working on a prototype on Windows Azure Platform.

Trying to master Hosted Service and Data Stotage in Azure.