Entity Framework is a nice way of accessing databases without having to write any data access code. Because Entity Framework is able to modify data in your database it needs a primary key to be defined in order for it Read more…
It’s easy enough to send messages to an Event Hub using the EventHubs NuGet package as specified here, but if you want to test it by making you’re own HTTP POST requests to the endpoint then it becomes a bit Read more…
I bought the Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse last week as my old mouse was getting a bit skanky and I wanted something nice to replace it with. So far I like it but the one annoyance was that when Read more…
If you want to get a random string in SQL then you could use newid to generate a GUID and take the alphanumeric characters from it, however while these should obviously be unique from each other they don’t contain the Read more…
I use IdentityServer to manage access to a few client APIs with the configuration details stored in SQL. The one downside to using IdentityServer is that there doesn’t yet seem to be a good option for administration of credentials, though Read more…
There’s a pretty comprehensive set of APIs available for interacting with Azure resources but unfortunately these seem to be so new that there’s not really much documentation around on how to use them. For an example of the information that Read more…
In a similar vein to my post on storing complex properties of a TableEntity in Azure Table Storage it’s also possible to store Enum text values by using custom attributes to control serialization/deserialization. ReceiptRequestEntity.cs EntityEnumPropertyConverterAttribute.cs
I’m in the process of building an Azure Function to replicate some of the functionality found in Postcodes.io. This function will accept one or more postcodes as input and return details of the postcodes in the response. This looks retrieves Read more…
While trying to add items to a dictionary I discovered that there’s no equivalent of the AddRange which is available for lists. This is for good reason as adding a KeyValuePair to a dictionary requires first checking that the given Read more…
If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. Read more…