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…
Azure AD – Request Too Long I’ve been getting to grips with Azure AD authentication an part of that has involved retrieving access codes for Power BI at initial login to an authenticated web application. When I finally managed to Read more…
Empty Sessions in Azure Web Applications As part of a recent project I needed to embed a Power BI Dashboard in a webpage, in order to authenticate access to this dashboard Azure AD authentication was used, this directs the user Read more…
Multipart Form File Uploads Using WebClient If you need to upload a file to an API using a multipart form then you’re generally better off using HttpClient rather than WebClient, unfortunatly however HttpClient isn’t available in SSDT so if you Read more…
Creating an FTP Site in Azure with Azure Storage File Share If you want to host an FTP site in Azure there’s currently not a dedicated resource for this so the next best option is to spin up a virtual Read more…
Getting and Setting URL Parameters with JavaScript Although there’s probably plenty of good plugins to do this my code for getting and setting URL parameters is below. These take the URL to parse as an argument as I wanted to Read more…