Uploading employee data to blob storage

In this recipe, we'll develop a console application for uploading the CSV sheet to blob storage.

Getting ready

Perform the following steps:

1. Install Visual Studio 2019.
2. Create a storage account and create a blob container with the name csvimports.
3. Create a CSV file with some employee data, as shown in Figure 8.2:
   

Figure 8.2: CSV file with employee data

How to do it...

In this section, we are going to create a .NET Core–based client application that uploads the csv file to the blob container by performing the following steps:

1. Create a new Console App (.NET Core) project named CSVImport.Client using Visual Studio, as shown in Figure 8.3:
   

   Figure 8.3: Creating a new Console App (.NET Core) project using Visual Studio

2. Once the project is created, execute the following commands in the NuGet package manager:

   Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Storage.blob 
   Install-Package Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration...