Pre-Populating Social Sharing Messages Sharing buttons on a site can be configured to pre-populate content through various sharing channels such as email, Facebook and Twitter, though unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be that well documented. The below examples show how Read more…
Cryptographically Secure Random String I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the Read more…
Returning Image Files From an Azure Function Azure functions (at least HTTP triggered ones) are essentially stateless APIs and so should be able to return files as well as other output objects such as JSON. This is indeed the case Read more…
Creating .NET Core 2.0 Azure Functions If you want to create an Azure Function in .NET Core 2.0 rather than a .NET Framework 4.6.1 function you’ll first need to install the “Azure development” workload into Visual Studio if you haven’t Read more…
Uploading Files to Azure Blob Storage from the Browser As part of an ongoing project I’ve been trying to upload files from from the browser to an ASP.NET Core MVC site, however there appears to be a hard limit preventing Read more…
Using NPM and Gulp in Visual Studio 2017 By default new Web Applications created in Visual Studio 2017 use Bower for managing external libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap, however Bower is no longer best practice (and seemed a bit Read more…
Uploading Files in ASP.NET Core from an MVC View I’ve been working on creating a page for for the uploading of files to either a SQL database or Azure Blob storage which turned out to be much more complicated than Read more…
Retrieving OAUTH2 Tokens in .NET To get access tokens from an OAUTH2 identity server you can make a standard POST request using HttpClient, the easiest way of sending the required credentials is by serializing a dictionary object of values into Read more…
GPG Encrypt a File in Windows As part of a recent project I needed to encrypt a file with GPG using a public key provided by a client before transferring it over to them. This seemed to be surprisingly badly Read more…
JavaScript Week Picker One of the new input types in HTML5 is week which allows you to specify a week period. Unfortunately although Chrome brings up a nice datepicker to allow you to select the week Firefox and IE12 and Read more…