More than once I have been looking for the format of the connection string to access to a Microsoft Azure Storage account using code. If you are working with a Microsoft Azure solution is easy, because from the role configuration you can create settings and automatically generate the connection string:

But sometimes we are working with other applications that are not directly linked with Microsoft Azure and the portal only gives us the account name and key:

A few days ago I realized that, if we access to the properties’s account of the Storage from the Server Explorer we can get the connection string from Visual Studio:

If you click on the ellipsis, we can see the connection string, and even choose between the primary and secondary key in order to generate it:

Hope this helps.

Happy clouding!