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Programming

Digitally Signing PowerShell Scripts in Visual Studio Code

File C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\npm\func.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\npm\func.ps1 is not digitally signed. You cannot run this script on the current system. For more information about running scripts and setting execution policy, see about_Execution_Policies at https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170. If you’re recieving the above error when trying to dubug an Azure Function (or similar) Read more…

By Shinigami, 5 years31 January 2020 ago

Programming

Azure Function Authenticator in RestSharp

There are various ways of authenticating against Azure Functions but the default method is by providing a code value as a URL parameter in the call to the endpoint. If you’re using RestSharp to call your function there’s no specific authenticator to manage handling this parameter but it is pretty Read more…

By Shinigami, 5 years24 January 2020 ago

Programming

Dependency Injection in Azure Functions v3

In the v3 version of Azure Functions DI is better supported and there’s now some offical documentation demonstrating how it’s done. It’s pretty similar to how it was done previously, below is updated code from my previous v2 example. The IFunctionsHostBuilder instance is created by the Azure functions host and Read more…

By Shinigami, 5 years22 January 2020 ago

Programming

Dependency Injection in Azure Functions v2

Dependency Injection (DI) has been available in .NET Core Web Applications for a while and now seems to have finally made it’s way to Azure Functions as well and is available in the current Azure Functions Runtime 2.0.12382. The GitHub issue tracking DI implementation in Azure Functions is here. I’ve Read more…

By Shinigami, 6 years5 April 2019 ago

Azure

Using Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates with Azure Functions

In Azure Web Apps I’ve set up previously I’ve managed to get SSL certificates for the custom domains used by using the “Let’s Encrypt” site extension in the kudu management portal as detailed here. I’d hoped it would be as easy to do this with Azure Functions as with the Read more…

By Shinigami, 6 years6 July 2018 ago

Programming

Returning Image Files From an Azure Function

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 FileContentResult as in the below code which returns a QR Read more…

By Shinigami, 7 years15 March 2018 ago

Programming

Creating .NET Core 2.0 Azure Functions

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 the initial installation. You can then create a new Azure Read more…

By Shinigami, 7 years15 March 2018 ago