I’m currently revising for the 70-473 exam on designing and implementing cloud data platform solutions, as there doesn’t yet seem to be any books available for it I’ve decided to collect some links to content here. There’s also a Microsoft video that provides a quick overview of the topics covered Read more…
Recently I’ve been trying to create a test Android app using Xamarin that uses push and in-app messaging provided by Urban Airship. Although I figured this would be pretty simple it turned out to be more trickey than I first thought, probably due to both my own lack of skill Read more…
I recently wanted to create a nested doughnut (or donut?) chart to help me to visualize what I was spending per resource group as I was getting close to hitting the monthly limit of free money in my MSDN account. After a bit of Googling it appears that there isn’t Read more…
I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects for getting the rate card and billing information they’re Read more…
I’ve previously used the Google one click reCAPTCHA in sites but as the new invisible version is out I figured I’d have a go at getting it to work. Previously I had the one click reCAPTCHA working as below where the result populated an invisible required field validated using Bootstrap Read more…
I hadn’t previously realised this but MVC adds an X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN header to site page responses as part of a security measure to prevent sites running in iframes. These can be removed in ASP.NET 5 applications by modifying the relevant option in Startup.cs.
The ability to create your own middleware comes in pretty handy when creating MVC 6 APIs as it allows the inspection and processing of the requests/responses flowing into and out of the application. A few of the most useful ones I’ve used are below, a good guide to using middleware Read more…
ed to validate UK postcodes for a site I was building, after a bit of hunting around this seemed to be the best one that I could find, hopefully this will save me some Googling in future!
Tag helpers are a new feature in MVC 6 and are similar to the old style HTML helper methods though they have a more HTML like syntax. There’s plenty of good guides about how to use them around so I’m not going to rehash that here, instead, what I’m mostly Read more…
After creating a solution on one machine I then tried to open it on another and got the following error. If you ignore this error and then try to build the project an error saying “MSB1009 Project file does not exist.” is recieved. The project was originally created in Visual Read more…