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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By : Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi
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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By: Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi

Overview of this book

A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure helps you embark on a transformative journey through Microsoft Azure that is tailored to .NET developers. This book is a curated compendium that’ll enable you to master the creation of resilient, scalable, and highly available applications. The book is divided into four parts, with Part 1 demystifying Azure for you and emphasizing the portal's utility and seamless integration. The chapters in this section help you configure your workspace for optimal Azure synergy. You’ll then move on to Part 2, where you’ll explore serverless computing, microservices, containerization, Dapr, and Azure Kubernetes Service for scalability, and build pragmatic, cost-effective applications using Azure Functions and Container apps. Part 3 delves into data and storage, showing you how to utilize Azure Blob Storage for unstructured data, Azure SQL Database for structured data, and Azure Cosmos DB for document-oriented data. The final part teaches you about messaging and security, utilizing Azure App Configuration, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Azure AD B2C for robust, secure applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Azure's responsive infrastructure for exceptional applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to Your Environment
3
Part 2: Serverless and Microservices
8
Part 3: Data and Storage
12
Part 4: Messaging Mechanisms and Security

Understanding the .NET client library

The .NET client library for Azure Blob Storage is a set of APIs designed to help developers interact with Blob Storage in their .NET applications. The client library simplifies connecting to and working with Azure Blob Storage by abstracting the underlying REST API calls and providing easy-to-use, object-oriented APIs for common operations including uploading, downloading, listing, and deleting blobs. Azure provides the .NET client library for Azure Blob Storage.Storage.Blobs NuGet package. This package is part of the Azure SDK for .NET, which includes libraries for various Azure services.

Here’s an overview of some of the core classes and concepts in the .NET client library for Azure Blob Storage:

  • BlobServiceClient: This class represents the Blob Storage service and acts as the entry point for interacting with it. With BlobServiceClient, you can do the following:
    • Create and delete blob containers using the CreateBlobContainerAsync...