Reading Parquet from Azure Blob

Program.cs

using System;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Auth;
using Parquet;

namespace ParquetFromAzureBlob
{
    public static class Program
    {
        private const string AccountName = "<account name>";

        private const string AccountKey = "<account key>";

        private const string ContainerName = "<container name>";

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string blobReference = "<blob reference>";

            var creds = new StorageCredentials(AccountName, AccountKey);
            var storageAccount = new CloudStorageAccount(creds, true);
            var client = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

            var container = client.GetContainerReference(ContainerName);
            var blob = container.GetBlobReference(blobReference);

            blob.FetchAttributes();
            var buffer = new byte[blob.Properties.Length];

            blob.DownloadToByteArray(buffer, 0);

            using (var stream = new MemoryStream(buffer))
            {
                var options = new ParquetOptions();
                var ds = ParquetReader.Read(stream, options);
                Console.WriteLine($"Successfully read in {ds.TotalRowCount} row(s)");
            }
        }
    }
}