C# Archives | Matt Ruma

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Assembly Version Validation

Posted on December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I have a .NET 5 Web Api that I deploy using classic pipeline in Azure DevOps. When my Web Api is published I want to confirm that the correct version was really deployed, sometimes things happen where the deployment is successful but for some reason the older assembly might not be overwritten. In my Web…

Adventures in Apis: Grouping Controllers in Swagger

Posted on November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I like a one to one mapping between my controllers and actions, e.g. I have a controller to add an entity, delete an entity, and so on. I wired up Swagger support for my .NET Core API per Adding Swagger to ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API (coderjony.com). When I view the Swagger documentation in the…

Adventures with Blazor: Accessing Claims in a Razor Page

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 by Matt Ruma

With Blazor Web Assembly officially released I decided to take one of my side projects and write the front end in Blazor. I was able to wire up Azure AD B2C for authentication. What I wanted to do next was to take a look at the Claims that were available, I knew how to do…

Adventures with Azure: Azure SQL and Access Tokens – Part 1

Posted on March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 by Matt Ruma

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…

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