Download File and Upload to Azure Blob Storage

Requirement
Let’s say we have requirement to download file from website and upload it to Azure Blob Storage. In our case we are using excel file but you can do it for other files as well.

Details
First we need to setup Storage account and blob container in Azure. Once you have setup it, you need to get following details:

> Connection String: You can navigate to storage account and get connection string like below
storageaccount
> Blob Container Name: You need to get name of the blob container
> File Name: Name of the file that you want use for storing

Once we have all above details we can use following code. First we will download data to byte array using Web Client


Uri _url= new Uri(@"URL of the location from where you want to download file");
var _webclient = new WebClient();
//in case you need to pass credentials to website
_webclient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("Username", "Password");
byte[] _filedata = _webclient.DownloadData(uri);

//Once file is downloaded to byte array we can upload file to Azure Blob Storage
 var _storageaccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("Your Azure Storage Account Connection String");
 var _cloudblobclient = _storageaccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
 var _cloudblobcontainer = _cloudblobclient.GetContainerReference("BlobContainerName");
 var _filename = _cloudblobcontainer.GetBlockBlobReference("Filename.xlsx");
//setup mime type
 _filename.Properties.ContentType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet;

  if (!_filename.Exists())
            {
                using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream(_filedata))
                {
                    await _filename.UploadFromStreamAsync(stream);
                }
            }

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