The Azure computer vision API can be used to retrieve information about an image including tags, descriptions and categories along with their associated confidence scores. The Microsoft quickstart guide to using this is here and my releated code is below. Read more…
Azure Data Warehouse has a nice feature where it can access GZipped file blobs directly from Azure Storage as linked tables. The below code is for downloading zipped files from an SFTP site, extracting them, gzipping them and then uploading Read more…
SendGrid is a pretty good ESP and has a nice API, it also has a free tier available through the Azure Portal. The C# library for it available through NuGet makes it easy to call the API but the documentation Read more…
While trying to take the URL parameters from a page view and append them to an API call from a Razor web page in an MVC web application I kept on getting the URI encoded version of the ampersand from Read more…
There’s a Bootstrap example for a sticky footer that appears at the bottom of the screen even if there is not enough content to take up the rest of the screen height, however the problem with this (for me at Read more…
Previously I’ve used Azure AD to authenticate web application users as well as to retrieve authentication tokens for accessing Azure resources but I hadn’t tried retrieving tokens during the initial login before. It turns out that this was much trickier Read more…
As part of a recent project I needed to embed a Power BI Dashboard in a webpage, in order to authenticate access to this dashboard Azure AD authentication was used, this directs the user to the standard Microsoft login and Read more…
Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to Read more…
If you need to upload a file to an API using a multipart form then you’re generally better off using HttpClient rather than WebClient, unfortunatly however HttpClient isn’t available in SSDT so if you need to upload a file from Read more…
If you want to host an FTP site in Azure there’s currently not a dedicated resource for this so the next best option is to spin up a virtual machine and use IIS for running the FTP site. It’s also Read more…