File upload and download on Azure

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 by Nate Bross

Someone asked on Stack Overflow:

I want have my azure . NET web application upload a file, manipulate it and then download the changed version.

Should I use blob storage? I don’t actually need to store the data in the file.

Should I use blob storage?

That depends on what your requirements are.

I don’t actually need to store the data in the file.

Given this fact, you probably don’t need to use blog storage.

You could simply do something like this:

var postedFile = Request.Files[0] as HttpPostedFileBase;
var stream = new MemoryStream();
postedFile.InputStream.CopyTo(stream);
// work with MemoryStream
...
//return your file which could be different based on mvc, web forms or whatever

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