Visual Studio code is an open source source code editor developed
by Microsoft which supports all major operating systems like Windows, Linux and
Mac OS. It includes support all most all software development activities like debugging,
Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and
code refactoring.
Visual studio code can be extended via plug-ins
known as ‘Extensions’. Extensions give VS code the option of supporting various
programming languages on different development frameworks.
In this article you will see about ‘Azure Storage
Explorer’ an extension that supports the administration of blob objects in Microsoft Azure.
Here are the steps to setup ‘Azure Storage
Explorer’ in your machine.
- Install Visual studio code in
your machine. VS code can be downloaded from here
- Install 'Azure Storage Explorer' extension in VS code.
After installing VS code you need to login to your azure account.
For that you need to open the explorer in VS code.
Expand the ‘Azure Storage’ item in the explore to ‘Sign in’.
After signing in you can use the ‘+’ symbol to add the azure
subscriptions that you are connected to.
In the added subscription you can expand the tree view to
see the different storage accounts created in that subscription. Please note
that this will only work with Azure storage accounts and Page/Block blobs created in those storage accounts. Azure
managed disks can’t be administered like this.
Azure Storage accounts consists of 4 parts.
- Blob storage
- File storage
- Table storage
- Queues
Out of those 4 storage types queues will not be displayed
through this extension.
Azure Storage Explorer supports following features for blob objects.
- · List Subscriptions
- · List storage accounts
- · Blob Storage
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List Blob containers
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Create blob container
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Delete blob container
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List blobs
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View blob information
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Download blob
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Upload blob
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Delete blob
- · File storage
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List file shares
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Create file shares
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Delete file shares
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List directories and files
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Create directory
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Delete directory
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Download file
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Upload file
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Delete file
- · Table storage
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List tables
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Create tables
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Delete table
