CloudBlob.UploadFile Method (String)

Storage Client Library NET API

[This topic is part of the Microsoft Azure Storage Client Library 1.7, which has been deprecated. See Storage Client Library for the latest version.]

Uploads a file from the file system to a block blob.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient (in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.dll)

Usage

Visual Basic
Dim instance As CloudBlob
Dim fileName As String

instance.UploadFile(fileName)

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Overridable Sub UploadFile ( _
	fileName As String _
)
C#
public virtual void UploadFile (
	string fileName
)
C++
public:
virtual void UploadFile (
	String^ fileName
)
J#
JScript

Parameters

fileName

Type: System.String

The path and file name of the file to upload.

Example

The following code example uploads a file from the local computer to a blob.

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static void UploadBlobFromFile(Uri blobEndpoint, string accountName, string accountKey)
{
    // Create service client for credentialed access to the Blob service.
    CloudBlobClient blobClient = 
        new CloudBlobClient(blobEndpoint, 
            new StorageCredentialsAccountAndKey(accountName, accountKey));

    // Get a reference to a container, which may or may not exist.
    CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("mycontainer");

    // Create a new container, if it does not exist
    container.CreateIfNotExist();

    // Get a reference to a blob, which may or may not exist.
    CloudBlob blob = container.GetBlobReference("myfile.txt");

    // Upload content to the blob, which will create the blob if it does not already exist.
    blob.UploadFile("c:\\myfile.txt");
}

Remarks

The maximum size for a block blob is 200 GB, and a block blob can include no more than 50,000 blocks.


Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

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