Accessing Azure Blob Storage from a VB6 App

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Does anyone know if its possible to connect to Azure blob storage from a VB6 App and, if so, how would you do it?

I've got a CMS written in VB6 and I need to offer uploading images and files to the web server. The idea is that we'll store images and files in Azure blob storage but seeing how I'm not using the .Net framework how could I do it? If at all.

Thanks Steve

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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A VB6 CMS that uses Azure? +1, Rock and roll!

I think I would write a .Net component to access the Blob storage, make it COM-visible, and call it from VB6 via COM.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Dec 09 '10 at 19:12

MarkJ

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Yeah I like that idea. I think thats worth playing around with - Thanks MarkJ – Steve Dec 10 '10 at 09:38
Then you could use Azure SDK. It handles authentication and upload very well. – Carlos Fernandes Jan 21 '11 at 17:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:25

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I might be completely off, but I think the easiest way to access Azure is from a web service that is actually running on Azure. So I would write a web service that's sitting on Azure and then hit the web service from VB6.

There are a number of libraries out there that allow you to access Web Services from VB6.

answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:25

AngryHacker

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Would I be able to upload files and view files from within the blob storage via a webservice though? – Steve Dec 10 '10 at 10:06
@Steve, I don't see why not. You could use this one as your starting point: http://weblogs.asp.net/cfranklin/archive/2006/01/29/436838.aspx – AngryHacker Dec 10 '10 at 18:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '10 at 12:39

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Can't you just use a simple PUT via WinHTTPRequest, etc?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179451.aspx

answered Dec 10 '10 at 12:39

Bob77

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Thanks Bob - I'll have a play around with this. – Steve Dec 23 '10 at 12:30

Accessing Azure Blob Storage from a VB6 App

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