If you want to get a random string in SQL then you could use newid to generate a GUID and take the alphanumeric characters from it, however while these should obviously be unique from each other they don’t contain the Read more
I use IdentityServer to manage access to a few client APIs with the configuration details stored in SQL. The one downside to using IdentityServer is that there doesn’t yet seem to be a good option for administration of credentials, though Read more
There’s a pretty comprehensive set of APIs available for interacting with Azure resources but unfortunately these seem to be so new that there’s not really much documentation around on how to use them. For an example of the information that Read more
In a similar vein to my post on storing complex properties of a TableEntity in Azure Table Storage it’s also possible to store Enum text values by using custom attributes to control serialization/deserialization.
I’m in the process of building an Azure Function to replicate some of the functionality found in Postcodes.io. This function will accept one or more postcodes as input and return details of the postcodes in the response. This looks retrieves Read more
While trying to add items to a dictionary I discovered that there’s no equivalent of the AddRange which is available for lists. This is for good reason as adding a KeyValuePair to a dictionary requires first checking that the given Read more
If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. Read more
In trying to parse some URL parameters in a project I realised that Boolean.Parse and Boolean.TryParse work in slightly different ways and that neither was broad enough for my purposes. Boolean.TryParse Boolean.TryParse takes a string input parameter and a Boolean Read more
Dependency Injection (DI) has been available in .NET Core Web Applications for a while and now seems to have finally made it’s way to Azure Functions as well and is available in the current Azure Functions Runtime 2.0.12382. The GitHub Read more
If you’re setting up a WordPress site in an Azure Web App then an easy option for hosting the required MySQL database is to use the MySQL in app option of the Web App rather than setting up a new Read more