Let’s say you need you receive a large number of transactions from a third-party software system. The third party software system would like to send the requests via an API call. Each transaction needs to be validated (good data), enriched (add meta data) and transformed (convert to final format). My first attempt at solving this…
Month: August 2019
Adventures with Visual Studio: Properties Should Not Return Arrays
Early this morning, I installed the latest update of the Roslyn Code Analyzers in Visual Studio 2019 and was immediately welcomed with this warning: Properties should not return arrays. Something you need to know about me. I have this weird obsession of needing to remove all the “squigglies” that Visual Studio barks about from my…
Adventures with Azure Functions: Create an Alert from App Insights to Send an Email Notification
I’ve been working fiddling with a better way to receive a notification from an Azure Function that has encountered an exception. There are probably a few approaches to doing this, some that involve code others that do not. My first choice, is to try to take the no-code or low-code approach. So to get things…
Adventures with Azure AD B2C: Customizing Sign In and Sign Up UI
Lately I have been working a lot with Azure AD B2C. One of my most recent requests was to customize the Sign In and Sign Up pages. If my memory was serving me correctly, which is often not the case, I thought this was possible, just didn’t know what challenges or issues I was going…
Adventures with Azure Storage: Accessing a File with a Shared Access Signature
In this post we will look at how to read a document stored in Azure Storage, specifically in an Azure File Share, using .NET Core 2.2 and Shared Access Signature (SAS). This article assumes you have an Azure Account and an Azure Storage Account. Create an Azure File Share in your Azure Storage Account, which…
Adventures with Azure AD: Group Overage Claim … To Many Security Groups
In a previous article, Adventures with Azure AD: Group Overage Claim, I talked about how to handle, in an ASP.NET MVC Core application, the group overage claim that is sometimes returned in the claims for an authenticated user. I had a customer contact me saying that the code I provided them was not working as…
Adventures with Azure: Design Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service and Cosmos DB
Came across this article from Chris Pietschmann, an oldie but goodie. Check it out at https://buildazure.com/designing-globally-resilient-apps-with-azure-app-service-and-cosmos-db/.