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.
Bing Image Search API The Image Search API lets you query the Bing search engine for a list of relevant images, in order to access it you need a cognitive services API key obtained from the Azure portal. The API endpoint can be accessed directly by structuring queries using the Read more…
When creating a new API controller in a Web Application the template code created if you choose to include read/write actions provides a good overview of how to pass values through to the API methods and return results. The template assumes that the controller only has one action per HTTP Read more…
If you want to get the physical location of a user on your site there’s a couple of different methods that you can use, you can either use their IP address to get an approximate location or you can request a more accurate location from them using the HTML geolocation Read more…
I’ve just started building a site using Bootstrap 4 which is different enough to Bootstrap 3 that I’m having to relearn a few things. One of those is form validation as previously I used bootstrap-validator though this doesn’t yet work with version 4. Version 4 does have it’s own inbuilt Read more…
It’s possible to export an Azure SQL database to a BACPAC file using the Azure portal and PowerShell among other methods but the documentation makes no mention of doing this directly in .NET, though happily this is also possible. The process detailed below triggers a database export to a specified Read more…
As part of a project where I was running multiple threads making API calls like this I was making a stored procedure call to log the results to an SQL database for each result returned. This worked fine when a low number of threads was used but then started to Read more…
I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the code later in a personal password generator project. Turns out it wasn’t as simple Read more…
Azure functions (at least HTTP triggered ones) are essentially stateless APIs and so should be able to return files as well as other output objects such as JSON. This is indeed the case and can be done by returning a FileContentResult as in the below code which returns a QR Read more…