Creating a photo album for ASP.NET MVC 5 Users using Azure BLOB storage

In this blog post, we will integrate ASP.NET MVC with Azure BLOB Storage by saving an image for an ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user in Azure BLOB Storage. We’re going to cover a lot of ground in this post, including:

• Using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user as reference in other table.
• Creating a one to many relationship with ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user table
• Connecting an ASP.NET MVC application to Azure Storage
• Creating or Uploading a BLOB
• Deleting a BLOB
• Downloading a BLOB
• Uploading a file from MVC form to a Azure BLOB

The final output of the blog post we plan on creating in this post will look more or less like the image below. As you can see, a user can upload a photo to her album, delete a photo, and of course, view photos too.

Architecture of the Application

The High-level architecture of the application can be drawn as shown in the image below:

Creating tables to save images

When we create an ASP.NET MVC application using the given MVC template in Visual Studio, by default, a basic authentication gets created using the ASP.NET Identity 2.0. In a default MVC project, a template for the authentication and authorization purpose ASP.NET Identity 2.0 creates the tables as shown in the image below:

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