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…
I’ve been getting to grips with Azure AD authentication an part of that has involved retrieving access codes for Power BI at initial login to an authenticated web application. When I finally managed to get this working I then started Read more…
Empty Sessions in Azure Web Applications 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 Read more…
Multipart Form File Uploads Using WebClient 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 Read more…
Creating an FTP Site in Azure with Azure Storage File Share 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 Read more…
Getting and Setting URL Parameters with JavaScript Although there’s probably plenty of good plugins to do this my code for getting and setting URL parameters is below. These take the URL to parse as an argument as I wanted to Read more…
Using SQL Task Results in a Script Task in SSDT In SSDT if you want to access the results of a SQL query in a script task you can do this by outputting the results as a full result set Read more…