A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Storage Queue in Azure Portal using C#

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Step 1: Set up the Azure Storage SDK Open your C# project in Visual Studio and add the required Azure Storage SDK NuGet package. Right-click on your project in the Solution Explorer, select “Manage NuGet Packages,” and search for “Azure.Storage.Queues”. Install the latest version of the package.

Step 2: Write the Code In your C# project, create a new class or update an existing one. Import the necessary namespaces:

using Azure.Storage.Queues;

Next, define a method to create the storage queue:

public static async Task CreateStorageQueue(string connectionString, string queueName)
{
    // Create a QueueServiceClient object by passing the connection string
    QueueServiceClient queueServiceClient = new QueueServiceClient(connectionString);

    // Get a reference to the queue
    QueueClient queueClient = queueServiceClient.GetQueueClient(queueName);

    // Create the queue if it doesn't exist
    await queueClient.CreateIfNotExistsAsync();
}

In the above code, we use the QueueServiceClient to connect to the Azure Storage Account using the provided connection string. Then, we obtain a reference to the queue using the GetQueueClient method. Finally, we call the CreateIfNotExistsAsync method to create the queue if it doesn’t already exist.

Step 3: Call the Method To create the storage queue, call the CreateStorageQueue method with the appropriate parameters: the connection string of your Azure Storage Account and the desired queue name.

static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
    string connectionString = "YourStorageConnectionString";
    string queueName = "YourQueueName";

    await CreateStorageQueue(connectionString, queueName);

    Console.WriteLine("Storage queue created successfully!");
}

Replace "YourStorageConnectionString" with the actual connection string of your Azure Storage Account, and "YourQueueName" with the desired name for your storage queue.

Step 4: Run the Code Build and run your C# application. The code will connect to the Azure Storage Account using the provided connection string and create the storage queue with the specified name. If the queue already exists, it will skip the creation step.

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