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…
One of the options in bootstrap-datepicker is to show the week number on the same row as the days of the week. This numbers the weeks using the ISO-8061 standard which is fine (though it would be nice to have the option to change locale), for my purposes I wanted Read more…
SendGrid is a pretty good ESP and has a nice API, it also has a free tier available through the Azure Portal. The C# library for it available through NuGet makes it easy to call the API but the documentation on GitHub is a bit lacking. Below is some basic Read more…
While trying to take the URL parameters from a page view and append them to an API call from a Razor web page in an MVC web application I kept on getting the URI encoded version of the ampersand from Context.Request.QueryString rather than the raw one that’s needed to separate Read more…
Multipart Form File Uploads Using WebClient If you need to upload a file to an API using a multipart form then you’re generally better off using HttpClient rather than WebClient, unfortunatly however HttpClient isn’t available in SSDT so if you need to upload a file from a script task then Read more…
Getting a List of Countries and Their Identifiers The RegionInfo class in System.Globilization provides useful details about a region (country) such as the name, currency and ISO identifying codes. If you want to get a RegionInfo for every available country then you can use the following code which came from Read more…
Using Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates with Azure Functions In Azure Web Apps I’ve set up previously I’ve managed to get SSL certificates for the custom domains used by using the “Let’s Encrypt” site extension in the kudu management portal as detailed here. I’d hoped it would be as easy to Read more…