Since I wrote the post Azure Active Directory Authentication for React I discovered that the library used (react-aad-msal) is being depreciated as Microsoft are now providing their own offical library (@azure/msal-react) for these purposes. There’s good documentation of the msal-react library available on the package page as well as samples Read more…
In SQL you can use the HASHBYTES function to generate the hash of an input, the output is the binary represention of the hash. If you want to get this as a unicode value then you can use the below code. This gives a result of ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad which can be Read more…
Extension methods for adding a BlobServiceClient are provided by Microsoft as previously mentioned, however there’s no equivlent for adding access for Table (or Cosmos DB) storage. The below extension allows CloudTable and CloudTableClients to be injected. Though as Table storage doesn’t yet work with Managed Service Identity the relevant SAS Read more…
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core which acts as a middleware layer for managing authentication and authorization. Configuration data for the IdentityServer4 service can be persisted in a variety of storage mediums including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL and if you want to Read more…
If for whatever reason you can’t just use a nice jQuery plugin like js-cookie then the below Javascript will serve as a basic method of setting and getting cookies. Set Cookie Get Cookie
Sending Books to a Kindle from Gmail in Calibre I’ve just built a new computer and have been setting up all my software on it again, as part of that I need to set up Calibre to download news and send it to my Kindle via my Gmail account. The Read more…