Azure REST WebClient PUT Blob - rest

Question

I'm trying to simply upload a new blob to an Azure Storage countainer using WebClient like this :
var sas = "[a new generated sas with Read, Write, List & Delete permissions]";
var sData = "This is a test!";
var sEndPoint = "http://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/MyTest.txt" + sas;
var clt = new WebClient();
var res = await clt.UploadStringTaskAsync(sEndPoint, "PUT", sData);
This is giving me a "(400) Bad Request." error. Am I doing anything wrong here?
Thanks
(By the way, I need to use REST instead of Client API since I'm in a Silverlight project)

Answer 1

You would need to define a request header (x-ms-blob-type) for blob type and set it's value to BlockBlob. Also for Put requests you would need to define the Content-Length request header as well. I wrote a blog post on Shared Access Signatures and performing some blob operations using that (with both REST API and Storage Client library) which you can read here: http://gauravmantri.com/2013/02/13/revisiting-windows-azure-shared-access-signature/.
and here's the code from that post on uploading blob. It uses HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse instead of WebClient:
static void UploadBlobWithRestAPISasPermissionOnBlobContainer(string blobContainerSasUri)
{
string blobName = "sample.txt";
string sampleContent = "This is sample text.";
int contentLength = Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(sampleContent);
string queryString = (new Uri(blobContainerSasUri)).Query;
string blobContainerUri = blobContainerSasUri.Substring(0, blobContainerSasUri.Length - queryString.Length);
string requestUri = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}/{1}{2}", blobContainerUri, blobName, queryString);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestUri);
request.Method = "PUT";
request.Headers.Add("x-ms-blob-type", "BlockBlob");
request.ContentLength = contentLength;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sampleContent), 0, contentLength);
}
using (HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
}
}

Answer 2

When testing against the blob emulator this is the code I need to get it working:
var connection = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AzureStorageConnectionString"];
var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connection);
var client = new WebClient();
client.Headers.Add("x-ms-blob-type", "BlockBlob");
client.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2012-02-12");
client.UploadData(string.Format(#"{0}/$root/{1}{2}", storageAccount.BlobEndpoint, myFileName, sharedAccessSignature), "PUT", _content);