How do I serialize a .NET object into Azure Blob Storage without using a temporary file?
.net, azure, azure-storage, c#, serialization
Solution
You could do the following. Create a `MemoryStream` instance and use `XmlSerializer.Serialize(Stream stream)` to serialize the object into the memory stream, then "rewind" the stream to beginning using `Seek()`. Then you call `CloudBlob.UploadFromStream()` to upload the stream contents to the blob.
Problem
I want to store a .NET object into Azure Blob Storage. Currently I serialize it into an XML file using `TextWriter` (`episodeList` is the object I want serialized): ``` XmlAttributeOverrides overrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides(); XmlAttributes Xmlattr = new XmlAttributes(); Xmlattr.XmlRoot = new XmlRootAttribute("EPISODES"); overrides.Add(typeof(List<EpisodeData>), Xmlattr); XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<EpisodeData>), overrides); TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(@"C:\movie.xml"); serializer.Serialize(textWriter, episodeList); textWriter.Close(); ``` and then upload the file into Blob Storage: ``` CloudBlobClient blobStorage = createOrGetReferenceOfBlobStorage(folderName); string uniqueBlobName = string.Format("{0}/{1}", folderName, fileName); CloudBlockBlob blob = clouBblockBlobPropertySetting(blobStorage, uniqueBlobName, ".txt"); using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(blob.OpenWrite())) { writer.Write(content); } ``` Is it possible to somehow skip the temporary file so that the XML is directly uploaded into Azure Blob Storage?