If you’re building a Single Page Application (SPA) then routing tends to be taken care of on the client side by your index.html root document which requires it to be loaded first. If you’re hosting your site as a static Read more…
I manage a PGP encryption library call PGPCore and have recently been making some changes to try and move some of the deployment overhead into a git pipleline. The library is strongly named and as part of the work I’ve Read more…
You can deploy WordPress onto an Azure Web App by copying the files directly to the FTP site behind it but the easiest option is to clone it directly from the offical WordPress Github repository. This can be done by Read more…
When serializing object to JSON using Newtonsoft it’s possible to change the naming of the properties by updating the serializer naming conventions as detailed here. It’s also possible to create your own custom naming strategy if none of the inbuild Read more…
If you want to debug an app that accesses Azure resources using Managed Service Identity (MSI) in Visual Studio or VS Code then you may well find yourself getting an error similar to that below. Although the error message is Read more…
If you need to whitelist/blacklist an IP address for a client sometimes they’ll give you a subnet range rather than a list of IP addresses. If the site is being hosted in Azure then this is simple to do but Read more…
Since I wrote the post Azure Active Directory Authentication for React I discovered that the library used (react-aad-msal) is being depreciated as Microsoft are now providing their own offical library (@azure/msal-react) for these purposes. There’s good documentation of the msal-react Read more…
In SQL you can use the HASHBYTES function to generate the hash of an input, the output is the binary represention of the hash. If you want to get this as a unicode value then you can use the below Read more…
Usually when I build a website it’s an ASP.NET Core Razor site created from Visual Studio but I’ve recently started to try to get to grips with the React framework (again within Visual Studio). This means I’m having to relearn Read more…
Extension methods for adding a BlobServiceClient are provided by Microsoft as previously mentioned, however there’s no equivlent for adding access for Table (or Cosmos DB) storage. The below extension allows CloudTable and CloudTableClients to be injected. Though as Table storage Read more…