(VB.NET) Azure Storage: Upload Binary Data to Block Blob using BinData

Sample code to upload binary bytes (contained in a Chilkat BinData object) to a block blob in Azure Cloud Storage. This creates the block blob, or replaces an existing block blob.

Note: The maximum size of a block blob created by uploading in a single step is 64MB. For larger files, the upload must be broken up into blocks. There is another Chilkat example for that..

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' Azure Blob Service Example: Upload binary bytes to a block blob.
' This creates a new block blob or replaces an existing one in its entirety.
' See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179451.aspx

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

' Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
Dim bTls As Boolean = True
Dim port As Integer = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
' In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
Dim success As Boolean = rest.Connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Dim azAuth As New Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY"
' The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat"
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey"
azAuth.Service = "Blob"
' This causes the "x-ms-version: 2020-08-04" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2020-08-04"
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth)

' Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
' headers: Content-Length, x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
' are automatically set by Chilkat.


' IMPORTANT: Make sure to set the x-ms-blob-type header:
success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-blob-type","BlockBlob")

' For this example, we'll just load a JPG file into memory..
Dim bd As New Chilkat.BinData
success = bd.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load the file to be uploaded.")
    Exit Sub
End If


' Note: The maximum size of a block blob created by uploading in a single step is 64MB.  
' For larger files, the upload must be broken up into blocks.  There is another Chilkat example for that..
Dim sbResponseBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestBd("PUT","/mycontainer/starfish.jpg",bd,sbResponseBody)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response status code,
' with no response body.

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
    ' Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader)
    Debug.WriteLine("response body (if any): " & sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
    Debug.WriteLine("---")
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " & rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " & rest.LastRequestHeader)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("Success.")