As part of the current project I’m working on we’ve got a service which offloads some email send tasks to a background worker running in Hangfire. Creating the BackgroundJobClient directly in our service was throwing errors and didn’t allow us to test that it had actually been called so we Read more…
Adding healthchecks to your APIs is generally a good idea as it can provide some useful information about the status of your services. There’s a lot of good guides about how to do this including the offical Microsoft documentation but there’s fewer guides on how to set up your own Read more…
There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more…
RestSharp has recently released a major new version with a lot of breaking changes. One of the things to change was custom authenticators which now seem to be less obvious to use. The documentation suggests creating a custom authenticator by inheriting from IAuthenticator but this doesn’t seem to work and Read more…
I’ve previously posted about how to add Azure Table Storage clients via dependency injection for which I created my own extension methods using SAS tokens as MSI authentication wasn’t available. Happily MSI authentication for Azure Table Storage is now available (though pretty poorly documented) so a guide on how to 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 ones do the dop. This can be done by inheriting 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 pretty clear, it’s not obvious what you can do about 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 if you need to check the IP address against the Read more…
I’m currently using RestSharp as a client for downloading product details, however it appears that the response from the server (which I have no control over) is encoded in a differerent character set (ISO-8859-1) than RestSharp is expecting (UTF-8). This means that although most characters are converted as expected, some Read more…
I’ve been needing to access the AWS S3 API recently as part of a project and although there’s a pretty good client already available it didn’t quite meet my needs so I decided I needed to build my own client based on RestSharp. Unfortunatly although the API is pretty simple Read more…