Azure download blob part

Question

I would really appreciate it if anyone has any experience with the DownloadRangeToStream function.

Here they say that the parameter "length" is the length of the data, but in my experience this is the top position of the segment to load, for example, "length" - "offset" = the actual length of the data.

I would also be very grateful if someone could give me the code for loading the blob in pieces, since the function mentioned above does not work.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Try this code. It loads a large block, breaking it into 1 MB fragments.

    static void DownloadRangeExample()
    {
        var cloudStorageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount;
        var containerName = "container";
        var blobName = "myfile.zip";
        int segmentSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;//1 MB chunk
        var blobContainer = cloudStorageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient().GetContainerReference(containerName);
        var blob = blobContainer.GetBlockBlobReference(blobName);
        blob.FetchAttributes();
        var blobLengthRemaining = blob.Properties.Length;
        long startPosition = 0;
        string saveFileName = @"D:\myfile.zip";
        do
        {
            long blockSize = Math.Min(segmentSize, blobLengthRemaining);
            byte[] blobContents = new byte[blockSize];
            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                blob.DownloadRangeToStream(ms, startPosition, blockSize);
                ms.Position = 0;
                ms.Read(blobContents, 0, blobContents.Length);
                using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(saveFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
                {
                    fs.Position = startPosition;
                    fs.Write(blobContents, 0, blobContents.Length);
                }
            }
            startPosition += blockSize;
            blobLengthRemaining -= blockSize;
        }
        while (blobLengthRemaining > 0);
    }