Have anyone used azure media service with xamarin. I am trying to make an portable library which can upload / retrieves video asseset from a standard azure media server. However I am not able to install the nuget package into my project.
Can anyone point me in the right direction
I don't think the default azure media libary is a portable library therefore you cannot add it to your portable library project.
You could however implement this using the available rest documentation.
Media Services Rest Api
We've done something similar for access to blob storage. To avoid having to reference all the azure storage libraries in all our projects.
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I'm trying to use client side encryption for azure to securely upload files to blob storage in .NET,
However it seems that BlobEncryptionPolicy is not available and I have not seen any documentation specifying alternative solutions from microsoft.
Even their documentation still uses BlobEncryptionPolicy:
Client-Side Encryption and Azure Key Vault for Microsoft Azure Storage
Specifically i'm inside of a xamarin project using the latest .net version.
If i create a sample console app, I can reference BlobEncryptionPolicy without any issues. However the same nuget package inside a xamarin shared project can not resolve the reference to BlobEncryptionPolicy under the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob namespace.
Does anyone know what is going on here?
There are some differences between Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage package depending on .net core and the one depending on .net framework.
You may have developed your Xamarin project based on .net core, where BlobEncryptionPolicy is not supported(this method doesn't exist in the dll).
As when you create a console app(.net framework), you can use the encryption. If you build a console app(.net core), you will find no such method as well.
An open issue on github about this, saying the encryption for .net core is coming soon.
You can change your targetframework to use it if .net core is not necessary for your development.
I am trying to properly install Azure SDK, reference it and build an application based on it.
Firstly, I am not sure if I need to install Azure SDK on top of what comes with Visual Studio 2015.
Secondly, when I visit the following url, I fall into a "rabbit hole":
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/dotnet-sdk/
… it refers me to a bunch of fragmented installs here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
…. When I choose “Client libraries” in above url I get the following options: more than 100 of them!! :
https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=windowsazureofficial
My application needs to use Azure Service Bus and Azure storage. How do I determine what exactly is required and what is the best way to find and install them?
With a number of fragmented packages, I think there should be a flow chart help me to determine the packages required.
Thank you,
i would suggest you to use Web Platform Installer instead of direct download this-and-that package. WPI is much more convenient, and it installs everything needed.
For Azure SB, you will need NuGet package.
For Azure Storage, if you need to test it against your local storage first instead of trying to connect to the Azure one, you can install Azure SDK using Web Platform Installer - it will install you the Azure Storage Emulator. Details.
Azure SDK, however, is a very useful piece of software when developing for the Azure.
My application needs to use Azure Service Bus and Azure storage. How
do I determine what exactly is required and what is the best way to
find and install them?
If all you need is client libraries for Azure Service Bus and Azure Storage, you can download appropriate Nuget packages from here:
Azure Storage: http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage/
Azure Service Bus: http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.ServiceBus/
If there're other packages you would need, simply search for those on Nuget's website. For example, if I need Azure AD .Net library, I would simply search for Azure Active Directory.
For Azure Storage, there's a local storage emulator that gets installed along with the SDK. However you can download just the storage emulator from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/?sdk=net (search for Azure Storage Emulator on this page).
Please note that there's no local service bus emulator at this point of time.
A Note About SDK
Azure SDK is pretty comprehensive (so is Azure) and includes tools and libraries for you to build and manage different kinds of applications that can be deployed in Azure. As Alex mentioned in his answer, going down Web Platform Installer is the easiest as it installs everything for you that is included in the SDK.
However you can also pick the components of SDK based on your project's requirements and install them individually. For example, when you go to this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51657, you will see all the components that constitute SDK 2.9. On this page, when you click download button you will be able to select components that want to download based on your project's requirements.
I have used the info on this link to create a windows phone sample of uploading images to Azure Blob Storage by using Mobile Services.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/upload-images-to-storage-wp8/
I want to now try and use Xamarin Component of Azure Mobile Services to achieve the same result from Android and iOS. Does Xamarin component have support for this? Also, if anyone has done this before from Xamarin, could you please point me in the correct direction? I couldn't find much information on this topic of using blob storage from within Xamarin for Android or iOS
You can use Zach's Blob Uploader:
https://github.com/zgramana/IOSAzureBlobUploader
This is a lot simpler than using the AMS features for this (but lacks the features like expiration of the url and some auth bits).
You really want to use a web service between your blob storage account, and your Mobile app, unless your app is allowing users to access their own blob storage accounts. If you are determined to make a Xamarin app use Blob storage directly, you can use this Mono port.. it takes a bit of work to get it functioning. It also won't handle some functions in Azure Blob storage. I could only get "Download" to work. Deleting.. and uploading functions were broken. Maybe I screwed up the port to Xamarin.
Mono Azure sdk port
By using that sdk port, I was able to make an IOS app called "Blob Client" that allowed users to at least download their files on IOS. Made it as a tool for myself.. for a project I had, but then went ahead and put it out on the store.
Blob Client on IOS.
Here is an article on connecting to Blog Storage in Xamarin via the Azure Storage package. It's currently in preview but should be what you are looking for.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-xamarin-blob-storage/
The Windows Azure Storage package comes with a truckload of dependencies, including improbable libraries such as System.Spatial. I only intend to use the Blob Storage, which should represent about 5% of this package. Is there any stand-alone library available to do this?
You could always make direct REST API calls, as the storage API is well-documented. This is about as lightweight as you're going to get. There is no other official .net Azure SDK other than the one you referenced. I don't know of any 3rd-party .net SDKs available.
I am creating a little utility app for some of my Azure work and i would love to make it possible to deploy a azure package from within my tool.
I have a package that have been created from Visual studio and i can manual deploy it or deploy it from within VS 2012.
Anyone who know a guide or can tell me how i would deploy it from my own application?
Yes, you can do that. Everything you see as far as deployment is concerned in VS is backed by a REST API. So you could essentially write a WPF application which is a wrapper over these REST API. There're two things you would need to do:
Upload Package files to blob storage: This would be the 1st thing you would need to do. You could make use of storage client library or implement REST API for uploading package files to blob storage.
Implement "Create Deployment" Service Management API function: Take a look at the functionality here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460813.aspx. Once you have uploaded the package file in blob storage (and got the blob URI), you could invoke this functionality.
As far as I know there is no API wrapper / SDK available that covers full functionality on managing Storage Accounts, Deployments etc. yet. You can use the Windows Azure Management REST API though.
In order to use this API you need to have a valid management certificate in the subscription you want to manage and sign all REST calls to the Management API with it. There should be sufficient information about how to do so in the link above.
HTH