Generating Shared Access Signature URI from console application for Azure Storage Account Access > how to output results to file?

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PROBLEM

I am using the code below to generate a SAS URI for a Azure Storage Account which works a treat.

However when executing the code the resulting console application window displays the relevant URI string but I am unable to copy the value.

QUESTION

Easy question hopefully , what has to be added to the code below to output the URI to a text file ?

{

using System.IO;

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure;

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;

using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace SAS

{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) {

//Parse the connection string and return a reference to the storage account.
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));

//Create the blob client object.
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

//Get a reference to a container to use for the sample code, and create it if it does > not exist.
CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("sascontainer");
container.CreateIfNotExists();

//Insert calls to the methods created below here...


//Generate a SAS URI for the container, without a stored access policy.
Console.WriteLine("Container SAS URI: " + GetContainerSasUri(container));
Console.WriteLine();

//Require user input before closing the console window.
Console.ReadLine();
    }



    static string GetContainerSasUri(CloudBlobContainer container)
    {
        //Set the expiry time and permissions for the container.
        //In this case no start time is specified, so the shared access signature > becomes valid immediately.
        SharedAccessBlobPolicy sasConstraints = new SharedAccessBlobPolicy();
        sasConstraints.SharedAccessExpiryTime = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(4);
        sasConstraints.Permissions = SharedAccessBlobPermissions.Write | > SharedAccessBlobPermissions.List;

        //Generate the shared access signature on the container, setting the > constraints directly on the signature.
        string sasContainerToken = > container.GetSharedAccessSignature(sasConstraints);

        //Return the URI string for the container, including the SAS token.
        return container.Uri + sasContainerToken;
    }

}

} }

slepox slepox · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-12T02:29:19

If you just want to get the SAS string from console, Powershell will be a quicker approach.

Firstly ensure you installed Azure PowerShell, and authenticate your Azure PowerShell session by either Add-AzureAccount or Import-AzurePublicSettingsFile

Then, you have created your storage account with account_name, and a container with container_name:

$context = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName account_name -StorageAccountKey (Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName account_name).Primary
$container = (Get-AzureStorageContainer -Name container_name -Context $context).CloudBlobContainer
$sp = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob.SharedAccessBlobPolicy
$sp.SharedAccessExpiryTime = [System.DateTime]::Now.AddHours(4)
$sp.Permissions = ([Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob.SharedAccessBlobPermissions]::Write -bor [Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob.SharedAccessBlobPermissions]::List)
$uriwithsas = $container.Uri.AbsoluteUri + $container.GetSharedAccessSignature($sp)
echo $uriwithsas

Generating Shared Access Signature URI from console application for Azure Storage Account Access > how to output results to file?

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