Read Text From Azure Blob Container

gistfile1.cs

var storageConnection = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString");
var containerName = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageContainerName");
var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(storageConnection);

var blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
var container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(containerName);
var blobLog = container.GetBlockBlobReference(id);

string logText;

using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
	blobLog.DownloadToStream(memoryStream);
	logText = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
}