Download Azure File Share Documents Programmatically

Question

I am on a project where the ability to download documents (.pdf's) from an Azure File Storage account would be useful. Is this possible? I am currently only able to output the directories and directory's file content paths as strings, but unable to access the files at those paths, using the Microsoft.Azure namespace.

Additional details: In C#/ASP.NET, being deployed as an Azure Web App

Thank you.

C

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible.

Here is a demo for your reference:

My File Share and one picture file as below:

My code as below:

    public static void DownloadFromFileStorage()
    {
        CloudStorageAccount account = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=leeliublob;AccountKey=OxxxxxxxxQSy2vkvSi/x/e9l9FhLqayXcbxxxxxJ5Wjkly1DsQPYY5dF2JrAVHtBozbJo29ZrrGJA==;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net");
        CloudFileClient client = account.CreateCloudFileClient();


        //get File Share
        CloudFileShare cloudFileShare = client.GetShareReference("myfile");

        //get the related directory
        CloudFileDirectory root = cloudFileShare.GetRootDirectoryReference();
        CloudFileDirectory dir = root.GetDirectoryReference("Folder1");

        //get the file reference
        CloudFile file = dir.GetFileReference("1.PNG");

        //download file to local disk
        file.DownloadToFile("C:\\Test\\1.PNG", System.IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

    }

Screenshot of result: