private static IList <ResourceFile> UploadFilesMakeResFiles(StagingStorageAccount stagingCreds) { // use a dummy task to stage fsome files and generate resource files CloudTask myTask = new CloudTask(id: "CountWordsTask", commandline: @"cmd /c dir /s .. & dir & type localwords.txt"); // first we have local files that we want pushed to the compute node before the commandline is invoked FileToStage wordsDotText = new FileToStage(Resources.LocalWordsDotText, stagingCreds); // use "default" mapping to base name of local file // add in the files to stage myTask.FilesToStage = new List <IFileStagingProvider>(); myTask.FilesToStage.Add(wordsDotText); // trigger file staging myTask.StageFiles(); // return the resolved resource files return(myTask.ResourceFiles); }