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…
If you have a blob in Azure Storage that you want to have a look at first before deciding whether to download it or not you can open up a stream from it and use a StreamReader to read as Read more…
Azure Table storage is a way of storing structured NoSQL data in the cloud, as such it’s more geared towards rapid read access rather than manipulation of data in the table. If you want to perform any operations such as Read more…
I’ve recently started trying to get my head around unit testing (I probably should have learnt this a while ago) and part of this has involved trying to figure out the best way to integrate them with Azure DevOps. In Read more…
If you want to generate URLs for use in an MVC webpage for actions in your controller then the UrlHelper Action method is pretty handy. This can be embedded into your cshtml page and will generate a URL at runtime Read more…
I use the Hestia theme for this site which I think looks pretty good. One problem with it however is that uses v4 syntax for Font Awesome icons but includes v5 of Font Awesome in its assets. The change from Read more…
Below is a SQL query for getting database sizes borrowed from this post. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on Azure SQL databases unless you’ve been granted VIEW_DATABASE_STATE permissions.