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…
If you’re using Azure Table Storage then it’s often more efficent to perform operations such as insert, update, delete in batches rather than making seperate calls for each individual row. There can be up to 100 entities in each batch and each all entities in a batch need to have Read more…
Mostly just a link to this article containing best practices. There’s some useful extension methods available from Microsoft.Extensions.Azure to make for easier dependency injection of the various Azure services. There’s also some good examples available here.
If you are returning a JSON representation of an object from an MVC controller it may be necessary to determine how the JSON is formatted. This can be done using the JsonSerializerSettings object like so. This used to work as is with version 2 of .NET Core but with the Read more…
If you have 2 (or more) lists in C# and you want to check if they have 1 or more values in common then you can use the following LINQ to check.
If you have 2 dictionaries of the same datatype in C# which you want to merge together then you can use the following code. If a key exists in both of the dictionaries then the primary value will overwite the secondary value. In the above example secondaryDictionary will now contain Read more…
If you want to get a users username in a site that uses authentication then you can just use the User object and that will provide all claims associated with that user. However if you want to get the username for a user where they’re not required to authenticate first Read more…