IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2 which can be used to manage authentication for web applications. In my case I wanted to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication using a SQL backend for an Read more…
Accessing the Bing Ads API in a Console Application Although there’s plenty of documentation by Microsoft on how to use their Bing Ads API the documentation on how to initially connect to it seems a bit fragmented so this is Read more…
Increase Width of Hestia WordPress Container This site is built using WordPress and styled with the Hestia theme. Hestia uses Bootstrap as a layout framework with the main boxed element being a container, this has a max width of 1170px Read more…
Hosting Images in Azure Storage You can host images (or other files) in Azure Storage by making the container with them in public but if you want them to be private and only accessible to authorized users then you can Read more…
Azure Computer Vision API The Azure computer vision API can be used to retrieve information about an image including tags, descriptions and categories along with their associated confidence scores. The Microsoft quickstart guide to using this is here and my Read more…
Streaming Unzipping and Gzipping of files to Azure Storage Azure Data Warehouse has a nice feature where it can access GZipped file blobs directly from Azure Storage as linked tables. The below code is for downloading zipped files from an Read more…
Sending A SendGrid Template Email SendGrid is a pretty good ESP and has a nice API, it also has a free tier available through the Azure Portal. The C# library for it available through NuGet makes it easy to call Read more…
Passing URL Parameters Through A Razor Page While trying to take the URL parameters from a page view and append them to an API call from a Razor web page in an MVC web application I kept on getting the Read more…
Bootstrap Fixed Page Footer There’s a Bootstrap example for a sticky footer that appears at the bottom of the screen even if there is not enough content to take up the rest of the screen height, however the problem with Read more…
Web Application – Azure AD Single Sign On Previously I’ve used Azure AD to authenticate web application users as well as to retrieve authentication tokens for accessing Azure resources but I hadn’t tried retrieving tokens during the initial login before. Read more…