Windows Azure CloudBlobContainer. CreateIfNotExist: One of the request inputs is out of range.

By Daniel Du

I am working on my Blob storage sample of windows Azure and I get an exception as below when I create a blob container.

"One of the request inputs is out of range"

The code is pretty simple,

Private void EnsureContainnerExits ()

{

Var container = GetContainner ();

 

Container. CreateIfNotExist (); // exception

 

Var permission = container. GetPermissions ();

Permission. PublicAccess = BlobContainerPublicAccessType. Container;

 

Container. SetPermissions (permission );

}

 

Private CloudBlobContainer GetContainner ()

{

Var account = CloudStorageAccount. FromConfigurationSetting ("DataConnectionString ");

Var client = account. CreateCloudBlobClient ();

 

Return client. GetContainerReference (

RoleEnvironment. GetConfigurationSettingValue ("ContainerName "));

}

To make the container name writable able, I put it into CSCFG file. it can be accessed from webrole's "property"-"Settings", or edit the CSCFG file directly. I named the container name as "Gallery ".

The reason I got the error is that I used incorrect container name, according to the container naming specification on MSDN, it is supposed be to all lower case, while I am using a capital character. it is not a big deal, just a tip need to pay attention to, hope it is helpful if you come into ss the same issue.