Category Archives: Microsoft Azure

C# Azure Table Storage QueryAsync, Paging and Filtering

Posted on November 11, 2022 by briancaos

Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value store that can store massive amounts of data in a semi-structured way. Data is stored using a PartitionKey/RowKey keyset and a list of values. So far so good, but how do we query … Continue reading →

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Build .net core 6 projects with Azure Devops using yml files

Posted on September 22, 2022 by briancaos

DevOps is a complicated discipline, so when we as developers have to set up a build pipeline in Azure Devops we are sometimes in deep water. 2023-05-25: Updated Example to use Windows-2022 pool, not windows-2019 pool. Thats why I made … Continue reading →

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C# SQL Connection Using Azure Managed Identity

Posted on September 6, 2022 by briancaos

Azure Managed Identity is Microsoft’s solution to manage credentials for you, eliminating the need to store usernames, passwords, certificates and other secrets in your config files. Basically, with Managed Identity you establish a trust between a server and a resource. … Continue reading →

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C# Convert WebP to JPEG in .NET

Posted on August 29, 2022 by briancaos

WebP is a new compressed image format developed by Google. If you want to convert WebP to any other format, you seem to be mostly out of luck if you are using C#. There is, however, some tools out there. … Continue reading →

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C# Log to Application Insights and File from your .NET 6 Application

Posted on June 10, 2022 by briancaos

So why would you ever log to Application Insights AND File log at the same time? Well, if you are hosting your own applications on your own machine, it can be great to have a file version of what’s happened. … Continue reading →

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Read and Update Azure App Configuration settings with C#

Posted on March 18, 2022 by briancaos

Azure App Configuration is a nifty way of storing configuration settings in the cloud, and with the live reload feature you can change the config settings and they will automatically update in your app without a need for redeploy. But … Continue reading →

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Writing to Azure EventHub using EventHubBufferedProducerClient

Posted on February 2, 2022 by briancaos

The Azure Event Hub is a big data queue system capable of handling millions of events per second and packs nifty tricks in both the read and write end. I have written plenty of articles on how to read and … Continue reading →

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Create a custom Azure Dashboard Tile Using an Azure Function and Markdown Format

Posted on August 20, 2021 by briancaos

The tiles on an Azure Dashboard will only display data from Azure itself. So if you have data from the outside, like a database, you need to make a few workarounds. Now, you cannot make your custom tile as pretty … Continue reading →

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Read and Write blob file from Microsoft Azure Storage with .NET Core

Posted on June 29, 2021 by briancaos

The documentation on the Azure Storage Blobs are a little fuzzy, as the NuGet packages and the approach have changed over time. The latest NuGet Package is now called: Azure.Storage.Blobs The concept of blob storages are the same though: You … Continue reading →

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Azure.Storage.Queues QueueMessage Deserialize JSON with .NET Core

Posted on June 16, 2021 by briancaos

The documentation around .NET QueueMessage is a little fuzzy so depending on the version of your NuGet libraries might differ in properties. This article uses the Azure.Storage.Queues, Version=12.7.0.0. If you, like me, have systems writing JSON messages to the queue, … Continue reading →

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