Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to serialize/deserialize the provided objects to/from JSON. Once the above classes Read more…
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 need to upload a file from a script task then you’re stuck with WebClient. The below Read more…
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 machine and use IIS for running the FTP site. It’s also possible to set the FTP site to use an Azure Read more…
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 be able to update parameters in linked URLs as well as the current URL which would be Read more…
In SSDT if you want to access the results of a SQL query in a script task you can do this by outputting the results as a full result set into a variable of type Object and then load this into a DataTable within your script task. It’s also possible Read more…
The RegionInfo class in System.Globilization provides useful details about a region (country) such as the name, currency and ISO identifying codes. If you want to get a RegionInfo for every available country then you can use the following code which came from this post.
In Azure Web Apps I’ve set up previously I’ve managed to get SSL certificates for the custom domains used by using the “Let’s Encrypt” site extension in the kudu management portal as detailed here. I’d hoped it would be as easy to do this with Azure Functions as with the Read more…
A while ago I knocked up a NuGet package called PgpCore which uses the BouncyCastle library to easily encrypt and decrypt files and streams. The code for the project is here and this post is mainly here to point anyone in need towards it as I had to fix a Read more…
ASP.NET Core Rewrite Middleware Extensions I’ve recently updated my site and one of the demo projects on it uses the Bing Image Search API to fetch a list of images and display them. This worked fine when running locally but when published it appeared that a number of the linked Read more…
This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here.