Connecting to the Azure Storage cloud from the local Visual Studio environment

In both of the previous recipes, you learned how to create and execute Azure Functions in a local environment. We triggered the function from a local browser. However, in this recipe, you will learn how to trigger an Azure Function in your local environment when an event occurs in Azure. For example, when a new Blob is created in a Azure Storage account, you can have your function triggered on your local machine. This helps developers to test their applications upfront, before deploying them to the production environment.

Getting ready

Perform the following prerequisites:

1. Create a storage account, and then a Blob container named cookbookfiles,...