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Azure Storage Blob helps in storing Binary Data (of any type and any format). Blobs are categories into Containers. There are two types of blob as Page Blob and Block Blob. There are security features also available which operate at Container level and Blob level as well.

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How to create a sub container in azure storage location

How to create a sub container in the azure storage location. Please let us know
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Loading web user controls from blob storage in asp.net

I am storing user control file in some other location may be in blob storage or some other place. ( not in my project work space ) and i store the url of the user control in database . Now how can ...
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How to upload huge files to the Azure blob from a web page

Internally ASP.NET has a 2 GB addressing space, but in reality you only have less than 1 GB free for uploads (see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295626 ). In addition IIS 7 has a cap of 30 MB ( see ...
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Using Parallel.Foreach in a small azure instance

I have a WebRole running on a small instance. This WebRole has a method that uploads a large amount of files to BLOB storage. According to the Azure instances specs, a small instance has only 1 core. ...
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hosting fonts on azure cdn - CORS support

I cannot get azure blob storage hosted fonts exposed via azure cdn working in IE or Firefox. I believe this is because of @font-face cross-domain issues (CORS) and the normal solution is to add an ...
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Returning Azure Blob Stream directly from WCF service

I am looking to return a stream from Azure Blob Storage directly to the browser via WCF. Basically I have a REST WCF service and I am looking to have users download files via the service while the ...
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Azure diagnostics and WadLogsTable

I deployed an application on Windows Azure, i activated the diagnostic monitor like follows : public override bool OnStart() { CloudStorageAccount account = ...
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How display a list of Azure blob of a Container in Silverlight application?

How display a list of Azure blob of a Container in Silverlight application? I know how to do it in regular .Net but I need it in Silverlight. I'm able to upload but I want to show a list of what ...
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Returning Azure BLOB from WCF service as a Stream - Do we need to close it?

I have a simple WCF service that exposes a REST endpoint, and fetches files from a BLOB container. The service returns the file as a stream. i stumbled this post about closing the stream after the ...
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Add Cache-Control and Expires headers to Azure Storage Blobs

I'm using Azure Storage to serve up static file blobs but I'd like to add a Cache-Control and Expires header to the files/blobs when served up to reduce bandwidth costs. Application like CloudXplorer ...
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Azure storage error: “The specified blob already exists”, but it doesn't!

I have this code: CloudBlob blob = _container.GetBlobReference(relativefilePath); blob.Properties.ContentType = contentType; blob.UploadFromStream(fileContent); When I ...
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Read file from Azure blob storage

I want to read a PDF file bytes from azure storage, for that I have a file path. https://hostedPath/pdf/1001_12_Jun_2012_18_39_05_594.pdf So it possible to read content from blob storage by ...
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Storing binary data (images, files, etc) using WPF + Windows Azure

I have a WPF application that uses Windows Azure as the backend. I use SQL Azure to store data that are accessed by the WPF application through a WCF service. I need to be able to store binary files ...
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Force file download for IE9 on Azure Blob Storage

I am trying to use Azure Blob Storage as a location for secure file downloads using Shared Access Signature. Everything is working very well, however the problem I am having is I am trying to allow ...
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How to track individual objects, that are out of order, and then Joining() the consecutive ones?

I'll start by saying is going to be a little tougher than blindly joining byte[] together. My big picture goal is to optimize an application that currently uploads many 512byte pages to a web ...

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