Adding healthchecks to your APIs is generally a good idea as it can provide some useful information about the status of your services. There’s a lot of good guides about how to do this including the offical Microsoft documentation but there’s fewer guides on how to set up your own Read more
There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more
RestSharp has recently released a major new version with a lot of breaking changes. One of the things to change was custom authenticators which now seem to be less obvious to use. The documentation suggests creating a custom authenticator by inheriting from IAuthenticator but this doesn’t seem to work and Read more
I’ve started to learning about Docker and as part of that process I’ve initially been trying to just deploy a simple test API to a locally running Docker container. In order to get a basic proof-of-concept site up and running I first created a new ASP .NET Core Web API Read more
I’ve previously posted about how to add Azure Table Storage clients via dependency injection for which I created my own extension methods using SAS tokens as MSI authentication wasn’t available. Happily MSI authentication for Azure Table Storage is now available (though pretty poorly documented) so a guide on how to Read more
If you’re building a Single Page Application (SPA) then routing tends to be taken care of on the client side by your index.html root document which requires it to be loaded first. If you’re hosting your site as a static site in Azure storage and you reefresh the page then Read more
I manage a PGP encryption library call PGPCore and have recently been making some changes to try and move some of the deployment overhead into a git pipleline. The library is strongly named and as part of the work I’ve been trying to move the signing of the package into Read more
You can deploy WordPress onto an Azure Web App by copying the files directly to the FTP site behind it but the easiest option is to clone it directly from the offical WordPress Github repository. This can be done by adding it as an external Git repository in the Deployment Read more
When serializing object to JSON using Newtonsoft it’s possible to change the naming of the properties by updating the serializer naming conventions as detailed here. It’s also possible to create your own custom naming strategy if none of the inbuild ones do the dop. This can be done by inheriting Read more
If you want to debug an app that accesses Azure resources using Managed Service Identity (MSI) in Visual Studio or VS Code then you may well find yourself getting an error similar to that below. Although the error message is pretty clear, it’s not obvious what you can do about Read more