Question

I am developing an Azure application, part of which involves users browsing an online filesystem. TO do this, I am trying to use the Windows Azure drive, but I can’t figure out how to access it from client side, or how to make it accessible on the server side.

At the moment, I only know how to make the drive:

CloudStorageAccount devStorage = CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount;
CloudBlobClient client = devStorage.CreateCloudBlobClient();
CloudBlobContainer container = new CloudBlobContainer("teacher", client);
CloudDrive.InitializeCache(localCache.RootPath, 
        localCache.MaximumSizeInMegabytes);
CloudDrive drive = new CloudDrive(container.GetPageBlobReference("drive1").Uri, devStorage.Credentials);
drive.Create(50);

I am using C# as my development language.

All help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I’m not sure I understand your question properly, but it sounds like you want multiple client applications – presumably on machines that are not on Azure – to access your Azure drive?

Unfortunately, Azure drives can only be accessed from Azure web/worker or VM role instances.