Azure File Share with DefaultAzureCredential in .NET with Azure.Storage.Files.Shares - Is it possible?

 Using DefaultAzureCredential with most of the Azure resources is straight forward and simple with most of the Azure resources with relevant Azure .NET SDKs (We can use nuget packages Azure.Storage.Blobs and Azure.Identity). For example, with storage blob we can easily use DefaultAzureCredential as shown in below code.

    private static BlobServiceClient GetBlobServiceClient(string accountName)

    {

        return new(new Uri($"https://{accountName}.blob.core.windows.net"),

            new DefaultAzureCredential());

    }

However, we cannot simply create ShareClient with .NET SDK Azure.Storage.Files.Shares to use DefaultAzureCredential . as shown below.

ShareClient share = new(new Uri(fileShareUri),

    new DefaultAzureCredential());

With the above setup, we will get runtime errors when we try to perform operations with the Azure file share. As per the GitHub issue here it is not possible to use DefaultAzureCredential with Azure File Share with .NET SDK Azure.Storage.Files.Shares  due to "SMB Files cannot authenticate with a TokenCredential". So is it impossible to use DefaultAzureCredential  to perform operations with an Azure File Share using Azure.Storage.Files.Shares ? Let's look at a wokaround, which can help if desperately need to use DefaultAzureCredential with Azure.Storage.Files.Shares .

Inspecting Most Frequently Changed Files in Azure Git Repos

When analyzing an application with its telemetry data we would be looking at usage of the application, and would be able to identify which parts of the system is often used. Wouldn’t it be nice to compare that with the most frequently updated areas of the system? Let’s look at how we can get this information via Azure DevOps REST API.

Getting Content of a File in VSTS Git Repo

GItHub has a easy way to get raw contents of a file by clicking on Raw button for any code file in GitHub, where it will redirect to url starting with ‘https://raw.githubusercontent.com/’. For example the PowerShell script here can be viewed as raw content or retrieved programmatically using PowerShell using Invoke-WebRequest with url  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chamindac/VSTS_PS_Utils/master/CreateAzureWebApp/CreateAzureWebApp.ps1. Let’s look at possibility of retrieving raw content of a file in VSTS Git repo via VSTS REST API.