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I’m planning on writing an application that sends multiple PDFs to the users’ emails as attachments.
Should I use memory (MemoryStream) or is there a temporary directory that I can use? Which is more advisable? Thanks!
BTW I’m using C# ASP.NET
I would go with file-system storage, since memory is a more scarce resource. Windows Azure provides Local Storage Resources for this purpose, which are areas of disk that you configure in Service Definition and then access through the Azure SDK at runtime. They are not permanent storage, and will get cleaned up when a role recycles, thus they are ideal for temporary operations such as the one you describe. Although you should still try to clean up the files after each operation to make sure you don’t fill up the space.
Full information on Local Storage Resources is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee758708.aspx
A table detailing the amount of disk space available for Local Storage Resources on each instance size is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee814754.aspx