How to write text to a CloudBlockBlob in Windows Azure

CloudBlockBlobWrite.cs

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("AzureStorageAccount"));
var blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();
var container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(containerName);
container.CreateIfNotExists();

CloudBlockBlob blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(fileName);
blob.DeleteIfExists();

var options = new BlobRequestOptions()
{
  ServerTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10)
};

using (var stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(text), false))
{
  blob.UploadFromStream(stream, null, options);
}