I have an MVC4 project that I am running using Azure websites preview.
My problem is that I cant upload a blob into my blob storage container when I have deployed my website to azure, however the upload works fine when I'm debugging locally.
This is the exception and stack trace I get when deployed and I try to upload to a container:
No valid combination of account information found. at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.CloudStorageAccount.b__0(String err) at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.CloudStorageAccount.TryParse(String s, CloudStorageAccount& accountInformation, Action`1 error) at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.CloudStorageAccount.Parse(String connectionString) at MyProj.Controllers.ImageController.Upload(ImageViewModel model)
Specifically as per the stack trace it is the .Parse method which is failing.
The code I am using to connect to the blob storage is straight from the azure how-to documentation:
string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["StorageConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
Once again, this works fine when I running locally on my dev box, I can upload successfully with no problems. However it gives me this error when deployed and I attempt to do exactly the same thing.
I'm guessing my storageConnectionString is being messed with during the web deploy publish process but I'm unsure about how to resolve this?
Store your storage connection string in AppSettings, not in ConnectionStrings section. And, pasting here the actual connection string will help us help you (you may put * for the account key).