In this post, I will be exploring the Azure Files Storage Services to manage files by using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. The most relevant part of the use of this service is that you can attach it to a virtual disk on your Windows machine to deal with files as it were an external disk.

This post is a quick guide to start dealing with Azure BLOB Storage Services. I will create a simple .Net Console Application to upload and download a simple file within BLOB Storage Services. Before going ahead, I highly recommend take a look to How to create an Azure Storage Account. It is not complex but mandatory before interacting with BLOB Storage Services.

Some months ago, I came across an unexpected rare issue when dealing with AJAX calls in a MVC Web App that was making use of OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol to provide authentication on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This MVC Web App was set up to call several Web APIs protected by Azure AD authentication too.

You can find more information about this basic scenario made up of a Web App connecting to a Web API here. More in detail, Web APIs were employed in a simple straightforward way as if they were microservices, but this specific point is only for further information, not related to the main issue.