I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the code later in a Read more…
Azure functions (at least HTTP triggered ones) are essentially stateless APIs and so should be able to return files as well as other output objects such as JSON. This is indeed the case and can be done by returning a Read more…
If you want to create an Azure Function in .NET Core 2.0 rather than a .NET Framework 4.6.1 function you’ll first need to install the “Azure development” workload into Visual Studio if you haven’t done so already as part of Read more…
By default new Web Applications created in Visual Studio 2017 use Bower for managing external libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap, however Bower is no longer best practice (and seemed a bit flaky in Visual Studio anyway) and so for Read more…
As part of an ongoing project I’ve been trying to upload files from from the browser to an ASP.NET Core MVC site, however there appears to be a hard limit preventing uploading files greater than ~28.6 MiB in size which Read more…
I’ve been working on creating a page for for the uploading of files to either a SQL database or Azure Blob storage which turned out to be much more complicated than initially expected. I managed to eventually piece together how Read more…
To get access tokens from an OAUTH2 identity server you can make a standard POST request using HttpClient, the easiest way of sending the required credentials is by serializing a dictionary object of values into URL encoded content. appsettings.json
As part of a recent project I needed to encrypt a file with GPG using a public key provided by a client before transferring it over to them. This seemed to be surprisingly badly documented (though this blog did come Read more…
One of the new input types in HTML5 is week which allows you to specify a week period. Unfortunately although Chrome brings up a nice datepicker to allow you to select the week Firefox and IE12 and earlier don’t implement Read more…
When publishing a .NET Core 2.0 Web App to Azure from Visual Studio 2017 the initial few deployments seem to work as expected but after a while they often start failing with the message ERROR_FILE_IN_USE. There’s a few proposed solutions Read more…