If you’re setting up a WordPress site in an Azure Web App then an easy option for hosting the required MySQL database is to use the MySQL in app option of the Web App rather than setting up a new MySQL server. Though it’s worth noting that this isn’t very 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…
Previously I’ve used Azure AD to authenticate web application users as well as to retrieve authentication tokens for accessing Azure resources but I hadn’t tried retrieving tokens during the initial login before. It turns out that this was much trickier than I’d expected, partially because of how abstracted away the Read more…
As part of a recent project I needed to embed a Power BI Dashboard in a webpage, in order to authenticate access to this dashboard Azure AD authentication was used, this directs the user to the standard Microsoft login and they are then redirected back to the desired page afterwards. Read more…
When publishing a .NET Core 2.0 Web App to Azure from Visual Studio 2017 the initial few deployments seem to work as expected but after a while they often start failing with the message ERROR_FILE_IN_USE. There’s a few proposed solutions for this, the initial one I tried was to increase Read more…
I’ve previously used “Individual User Accounts” authentication for authenticating users in web applications but as the management of users in the underlying SQL databases isn’t that simple it seemed that using Azure Active Directory to manage users might be a better option. The first step in the process is to Read more…
Whenever I create a new project in Visual Studio 2015 one of the first things I do is go and upgrade all of the included NuGet packages. When creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application one of the included NuGet packages is is “Microsoft.NETCore.App” version 1.0.1, upon upgrading this to version Read more…