The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden on container.CreateIfNotExistsAsync() method

Question

static class StorageUtils
        public static CloudStorageAccount StorageAccount
            get
                string account = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StorageAccountName"];
                //string account = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageAccountName");
                //string key = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageAccountAccessKey");
                string key = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StorageAccountName"];
                string connectionString = String.Format("DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName={0};AccountKey={1}", account, key);
                return CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);
I have a web project and I converted it to "MS Azure Cloud Service Project"
I make the Azure project default and run CreateAndConfigureAsync() to create the container. It works fine and creates the images container in Azure storage.
Then I make my web project default and change CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting to ConfigurationManager.AppSettings in StorageUtils class and run the web app project. Then I get "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden" error whencontainer.CreateIfNotExistsAsync()
line get executed.
What is the reason for this?
async public void CreateAndConfigureAsync()
            try
                CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = StorageUtils.StorageAccount;
                // Create a blob client and retrieve reference to images container
                CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
                CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("images");
                // Create the "images" container if it doesn't already exist.
                if (await container.CreateIfNotExistsAsync())
                    // Enable public access on the newly created "images" container
                    await container.SetPermissionsAsync(
                        new BlobContainerPermissions
                            PublicAccess =
                                BlobContainerPublicAccessType.Blob
            catch (Exception ex)
        }

Answer 1

Hi,
It seems there is something wrong with your code, from your code the account and key are the same, because their appsetting name are the same.
string account = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StorageAccountName"];
//string account = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageAccountName");
//string key = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageAccountAccessKey");
string key = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["StorageAccountName"];
string connectionString = String.Format("DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName={0};AccountKey={1}", account, key);
return CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);
If you use CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting, please consider set azure project as the startup project, if not, this value will be null, this resulted in solution being started as a web project that didn't run inside the Azure emulator. Since CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting
tries to get setting by contacting Azure (or Azure emulator in this case), and it is not running, it returns null.
Best Regards,
Jambor
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