Need to update images to my application based on image count difference from blob storage to my applications image folder

Question

hi,

 In my mvc application i am storing images in images folder.

Dynamically i can update images to my application images folder .

in azure when ever instance recycles what ever we update in azure VM we will lose,so i want to store images in blob storage as well.

when ever role recycles i need to compare the count of images in application  with blob storage if any difference then update images  folder  with blob storage.

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to do that only once when role recyle then I think a startup task should do this otherwise you might need some background thread doing this synchronzation for you. For synchronization part this might be useful
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Synchronizing-Files-to-a14ecf57

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-Sachin Sancheti

Answer 2

thank you for your respose

how can i achive using startup tasks.

since i am new to azure can you elebroate bit please

how can i handle updating images based on differenece of image count from blob to app images.if their is  a difference how can i update those images to app images folder.

if you share a piece of code it will be very help full

Answer 3

This is how define startup tasks http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg456327.aspx

The link which I shared earlier has code which you can reuse http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Synchronizing-Files-to-a14ecf57

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-Sachin Sancheti