This is an evolution of my previous post in which I described a method for inspecting the body of a request in a middleware method and passing it out so it could be logged later if required. The below code reads in the body of a request and then if Read more…
Below are a couple of methods for making working with DateTime objects easier that I thought I’d collate into a single post. Default Value When using a newly initialised DateTime object as a source for an input field in an MVC project it will default to 01/01/0001. In order to Read more…
One of the options in bootstrap-datepicker is to show the week number on the same row as the days of the week. This numbers the weeks using the ISO-8061 standard which is fine (though it would be nice to have the option to change locale), for my purposes I wanted Read more…
If you want to send some URL encoded content to an API you can use the built in FormUrlEncodedContent to convert an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> to a correctly coded content object. The most basic way to get the required KeyValuePair IEnumerable is to manually create it. As this is quite a Read more…
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 API, this isn’t too tricky when you know what you’re Read more…
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 an attempt to summarize all the steps required to grant a console application access to the API. Most of Read more…
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 on viewports over 1200px wide. As this blog uses a lot of code elements which frequently Read more…
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…
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…
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 SFTP site, extracting them, gzipping them and then uploading them to Azure Storage. This all takes place in memory Read more…