Entity Framework is a nice way of accessing databases without having to write any data access code. Because Entity Framework is able to modify data in your database it needs a primary key to be defined in order for it to be able to uniquely identify rows. In my case Read more…
I use IdentityServer to manage access to a few client APIs with the configuration details stored in SQL. The one downside to using IdentityServer is that there doesn’t yet seem to be a good option for administration of credentials, though Skoruba.IdentityServer4.Admin certainly looks promising. In order to add new clients Read more…
I’m in the process of building an Azure Function to replicate some of the functionality found in Postcodes.io. This function will accept one or more postcodes as input and return details of the postcodes in the response. This looks retrieves the postcode details from a copy of the ONS Postcode Read more…
While trying to add items to a dictionary I discovered that there’s no equivalent of the AddRange which is available for lists. This is for good reason as adding a KeyValuePair to a dictionary requires first checking that the given key doesn’t already exist and so is more computationally expensive Read more…
In trying to parse some URL parameters in a project I realised that Boolean.Parse and Boolean.TryParse work in slightly different ways and that neither was broad enough for my purposes. Boolean.TryParse Boolean.TryParse takes a string input parameter and a Boolean output parameter and returns a Boolean specifying whether the input 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 want to generate URLs for use in an MVC webpage for actions in your controller then the UrlHelper Action method is pretty handy. This can be embedded into your cshtml page and will generate a URL at runtime for the specified action which will be relative to where Read more…
Azure Key Vault is a pretty handy way of centrally managing access to secrets and logging what process has requested access to them. The best way to use it is for Azure hosted resources such as Web Applications or VMs for which you can assign a managed identity to the Read more…
This is an evolution of my previous post in which I described a method for inspecting the body of a request in a middleware method and passing it out so it could be logged later if required. The below code reads in the body of a request and then if Read more…
Below are a couple of methods for working with DateTime objects easier that I thought I’d collate into a single post. Default Value When using a newly initialised DateTime object as a source for an input field in an MVC project it will default to 01/01/0001. In order to set Read more…