Uploading employee data into Blob Storage

In this recipe, we will develop a console application that is responsible for uploading an Excel sheet to Blob Storage.

Getting ready

Perform the following prerequisites:

1. Install Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 or higher.
2. Create a storage account and create a blob container with the name Excelimports.
3. Create an Excel file with some employee data, as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

1. Create a new console app named ExcelImport.Client using Visual Studio, as shown in the following...