Bing Image Search API The Image Search API lets you query the Bing search engine for a list of relevant images, in order to access it you need a cognitive services API key obtained from the Azure portal. The API endpoint can be accessed directly by structuring queries using the Read more…
It’s possible to export an Azure SQL database to a BACPAC file using the Azure portal and PowerShell among other methods but the documentation makes no mention of doing this directly in .NET, though happily this is also possible. The process detailed below triggers a database export to a specified 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 FileContentResult as in the below code which returns a QR 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 the initial installation. You can then create a new Azure 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 for this, the initial one I tried was to increase Read more…
I’ve previously used “Individual User Accounts” authentication for authenticating users in web applications but as the management of users in the underlying SQL databases isn’t that simple it seemed that using Azure Active Directory to manage users might be a better option. The first step in the process is to Read more…
Sometimes it’s necessary to host multiple sites under the same parent address, in Azure this can be done by deploying multiple projects to seperate folders within a single WebApp. To begin with you need to create a WebApp, once this has been created use the Console blade under Development Tools Read more…
I recently migrated this blog over to WordPress from BlogEngine.NET as BlogEngine.NET seems to have been abandoned. In the process of setting up WordPress I discovered that the backend database is MySQL, as I mostly work with Microsoft SQL Server and a SQL database on Azure is cheaper than than Read more…
I’m currently revising for the 70-473 exam on designing and implementing cloud data platform solutions, as there doesn’t yet seem to be any books available for it I’ve decided to collect some links to content here. There’s also a Microsoft video that provides a quick overview of the topics covered Read more…
I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects for getting the rate card and billing information they’re Read more…