In this series of articles we will access an Azure SQL database using an access token provided by Azure AD. Why would we even want to do this? Doing it this way means we DO NOT have to provide a User Id and Password in our connection string. In Part 1 we will create the…
I have been doing a lot with Azure messaging services of late, including Event Grid, Event Hub, Service Bus and Storage Queues. In an effort to reduce the number of searches I do for C# code on how to work with these various messaging services in .NET Core, I have created a sample solution for…
From time to time I have to add file upload and download support for my applications. It seems like I have done this a bajillion and one times in the past but can never seem to remember where this code lives! My thought? Want not capture them all in an article on my blog? Not…
WARNING: According to this article, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-dotnet-dependency-injection#logging-services, is NOT A RECOMMENDED PRACTICE. While what I have done works, according to the article, adding AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry() to the services collection “registers services that conflict with services provided by the environment.” In a previous article, we looked at how to track custom events in Azure Application Insights from a .NET Core Web…
To get a better understanding of the Cosmos DB Change, Event Grid, retry and fail over logic, I decided to build a system that would respond to changes in a Cosmos DB, send events to an Azure Event Grid, which in turn would forward the events to subscribers. I broke this article in to three…
