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This is a blog to help me remember some of the coding challenges I’ve faced and hopefully help others out if they’re suffering the same problems.

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Programming

Using Azure Key Vault in a Console Application

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…

By Shinigami, 2 years1 year ago
Programming

Accessing the Bing Ads API in a Console Application

Although there’s plenty of documentation by Microsoft on how to use their Bing Ads API the documentation on how to initially connect to it seems a bit fragmented so this is an attempt to summarize all the steps required to grant a console application access to the API. Most of Read more…

By Shinigami, 2 years2 years ago
Programming

Downloading SFTP Files in Console Applications

Downloading SFTP files in console applications. I use the WinSCP dll to download files from SFTP sites in SSDT, as shown here, but this approach doesn’t work in .NET Core applications as the WinSCP dll isn’t available as a NuGet package. An alternative to WinSCP is SSH.NET, which amoung other Read more…

By Shinigami, 3 years3 years ago
Programming

Logging in .NET Core Console Applications

Adding logging to a .NET Core console application In .NET Core projects logging is managed via dependency injection. Whilst this works fine for ASP.NET projects where this is all automatically created upon starting a new project in Startup.cs, in console applications it takes a bit of configuration to get it up and Read more…

By Shinigami, 4 years1 year ago
Programming

Adding appsettings.json to .NET Core Console App

UPDATE: It appears that there’s now a “Worker Service” template available (thanks Hobby Developer) which scaffolds Dependency Injection, configuration and logging for you. If you wnat a long running service then that’s probably the best option but if you want an intermitantly triggered executable that does a defined task and Read more…

By Shinigami, 4 years2 months ago
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