If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. This works fine as long as long as the properties Read more…
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…
If you’re setting up a WordPress site in an Azure Web App then an easy option for hosting the required MySQL database is to use the MySQL in app option of the Web App rather than setting up a new MySQL server. Though it’s worth noting that this isn’t very Read more…
Azure Table storage is a way of storing structured NoSQL data in the cloud, as such it’s more geared towards rapid read access rather than manipulation of data in the table. If you want to perform any operations such as updates or deletes on data in your table then the Read more…
I’ve recently started trying to get my head around unit testing (I probably should have learnt this a while ago) and part of this has involved trying to figure out the best way to integrate them with Azure DevOps. In my case I wanted to have a pipeline which built Read more…
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2 which can be used to manage authentication for web applications. In my case I wanted to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication using a SQL backend for an API, this isn’t too tricky when you know what you’re Read more…
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. This retrieves an image file from Azure Storage and streams 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 than I’d expected, partially because of how abstracted away the 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 they are then redirected back to the desired page afterwards. 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 possible to set the FTP site to use an Azure Read more…