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 either generate a short-lived SAS key granting read permissions on the blob or 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 releated code is below. This retrieves an image file from Azure Storage and streams 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. It turns out that this was much trickier than I’d expected, partially because of how abstracted away the Read more