CloudDrive Class
Represents a Windows Azure drive.
Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudDrive (in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudDrive.dll)
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudDrive (in Microsoft.WindowsAzure.CloudDrive.dll)
A Windows Azure drive is a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) stored in a page blob in Windows Azure storage. Each drive can be mounted as an NTFS volume in a role instance, and you can access a drive within your role by using standard APIs for accessing NTFS drives. All data written to a Windows Azure drive is immediately stored in persistent storage; your data is written before an application receives notification that the write operation has completed. A role instance can also transparently cache the drive data in local storage.
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| When defining the connection string for connecting to the storage account, you must use the HTTP protocol. The HTTPS protocol is not supported for creating a drive. |
For detailed information about using a Windows Azure drive, see Windows Azure Drive.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
Development Platforms
Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008Target Platforms
