Conversion of decimals to hexadecimals in SQL While trying to convert some integers to hex values in SQL I found a few options that worked on ints and bigints but nothing that worked on anything larger and as I was Read more…
Adding logging to a .NET Core console application In .NET Core projects logging is managged via dependency injection. Whilst this works fine for ASP.NET projects where this is all automatically created upon starting a new project in Startup.cs, in console Read more…
Adding appsettings.json to a .NET Core console app This is something that strangely doesn’t seem to be that well documented and took me a while to figure out though in the end it’s pretty simple. All that’s required is to Read more…
Microsoft 70-473 Exam I’m currently revising for the 70-473 exam on designing and implementing cloud data platform solutions, as there doesn’t yet seem to be any books available for it I’ve decided to collect some links to content here. There’s Read more…
Creating an Android app using Xamarin and Urban Airship Recently I’ve been trying to create a test Android app using Xamarin that uses push and in-app messaging provided by Urban Airship. Although I figured this would be pretty simple it Read more…
How to create a nested doughnut chart in Chart.js I recently wanted to create a nested doughnut (or donut?) chart to help me to visualize what I was spending per resource group as I was getting close to hitting the Read more…
How to get access tokens from Azure Active Directory I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem Read more…
Invisible reCAPTCHA I’ve previously used the Google one click reCAPTCHA in sites but as the new invisible version is out I figured I’d have a go at getting it to work. Previously I had the one click reCAPTCHA working as Read more…
X-FRAME-OPTIONS Response Header I hadn’t previously realised this but MVC adds an X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN header to site page responses as part of a security measure to prevent sites running in iframes. These can be removed in ASP.NET 5 applications by Read more…
The ability to create your own middleware comes in pretty handy when creating MVC 6 APIs as it allows the inspection and processing of the requests/responses flowing into and out of the application. A few of the most useful ones Read more…