January 2025 (Version 1.37.0, build 20241221.4)

Welcome to Storage Explorer version 1.37.0. This version adds a number of new features to improve your app experience.

For a detailed list of issues closed in v1.37.0, visit our Issues page.

Pin File Share Folders

You can now pin folders within file shares to Quick Access.

Detach All Blob Containers

You can now detach all attached blob containers at once.

Similar functionality for other resource types will be added in future releases (see #3688).

Additional Encoding Support for Text Preview

Text preview now supports displaying contents with UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE encodings. Storage Explorer will automatically detect these encodings, but you can manually select the appropriate encoding in the preview panel.

System Formatting for DateTime Table Values

Storage Explorer can now apply your system's format settings to DateTime values in tables with the new Data Explorers → Table Explorer → DateTime Format setting using either UTC or your local time zone.

Export Queue Messages

You can now export the top 32 messages of your queues.

Due to limitations with the Azure Queues API, it is not possible to read more than the top 32 messages without potentially destructive data modifications to the queue. If you need the ability to export more than the top 32 messages of a queue, you may open a new feature request on GitHub.

Single or Multiple AzCopy Processes

In previous versions, Storage Explorer always allowed up to 5 separate transfers to run concurrently. This had the potential of negating any performance tuning benefits from other AzCopy settings, because each transfer spawns a separate AzCopy process that competes with the others for system resources.

You now have the choice of controlling whether Storage Explorer can launch multiple AzCopy processes with the Transfers → AzCopy → Allow Multiple AzCopy Processes setting. Storage Explorer now only spawns one AzCopy process to handle transfers by default. Multiple transfers are queued and processed sequentially. You can enable this setting to get the original behavior of multiple concurrent transfers.

App Configuration Extension Now Included with Storage Explorer

The Azure App Configurations extension for Storage Explorer is now included as part of the base app. The extension is still in preview, but all future updates to the extension will be included in regular Storage Explorer releases.

Support for .NET 8 and Above

In previous versions, Storage Explorer explicitly required a version of .NET 8 to be installed. Windows users with only .NET 9 were required to install .NET 8 during Storage Explorer installation.

Storage Explorer installation has relaxed the .NET requirement so that either .NET 8 or .NET 9 is supported.

Separate Options for Opening Blob Containers in New Tabs

Originally, opening a blob container from the Blob Containers explorer would create a new tab in a split panel. This was not optimal for some users' workflows.

We've changed the default behavior and added a new menu item to make it easier for users to open blob containers from the Blob Containers explorer the way they prefer:

• "Open" now opens the container in a new tab in the current panel.
• "Open to the Side" opens the container in a new tab in a split panel.