title: How to upload a folder to Blob Storage?
body: <p>I have a worker role that I use to pull data down from Blob Storage OnStart.  Currently I'm testing this by uploading a test.txt file and then downloading it to a local directory.  This is working fine.  </p>
  
  <p>I now would like to upload a folder to blob storage.  This folder contains a batch script as well as several executables that the batch script calls.  </p>
  
  <p>What is the recommended way to accomplish this?  I think zipping the folder and uploading the *.zip file would be easy...  but then, once I download it locally for the worker role to handle, how would I unzip it without any third party libraries?  </p>
  
  <p>If there are better options, I'm open to any suggestions.  Thanks for the help here - this community has been a huge help for me as I ramp up :)</p>