October 2019 – Matt Ruma

Adventures with App Insights: Tracking Custom Events in .NET Core Function Application

Posted on October 24, 2019June 16, 2022 by mattruma

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…

Adventures with App Insights: Tracking Custom Events in an ASP.NET Core Web Application

Posted on October 23, 2019June 16, 2022 by mattruma

I wanted to see how to track custom events in Azure Application Insights with an ASP.NET Core Web Application. A lot of what I wanted to do was found in the article, Application Insights for ASP.NET Core applications, I wanted to streamlined things a bit, specific to my use case. Let’s get started! In Azure,…

Adventures with Azure: Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, Event Grid, Oh My!

Posted on October 22, 2019 by mattruma

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…

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Create a Custom Dashboard Widget

Posted on October 16, 2019 by mattruma

I have been doing a lot with Azure DevOps lately, from building pipelines to dashboard. As I was building out a dashboard with various widget, I wondered if it was possible to create a custom dashboard widget! What do you know? You can! The widget are a combination of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. So I…

Adventures with Azure Storage: Read/Write Files to Blob Storage from Azure Functions

Posted on October 12, 2019 by mattruma

In my last article, Adventures with Azure Storage: Read/Write Files to Blob Storage from a .NET Core Web API, we looked at uploading and downloading files from Azure Blob Storage using a .NET Core Web API, in this article, we are going to perform the same task, but this time, we will use Azure Functions…

Adventures with Azure Storage: Read/Write Files to Blob Storage from a .NET Core Web API

Posted on October 11, 2019June 16, 2022 by mattruma

I wanted to share some code I wrote recently for uploading a file to a .NET Core Web API and writing it to Blob Storage, as well as, downloading the file from the .NET Core Web API. As a bonus, we will use SAS tokens to read and write to Blob Storage. Let’s get started….

Adventures with Logic Apps: Working with @Outputs

Posted on October 9, 2019 by mattruma

In a previous article, Logic Apps Calling Logic Apps, I show how to have a parent Logic App call child Logic Apps. Now I want to have my child Logic App return a value that my parent Logic App can do something with. This article assumes you are familiar with Logic Apps. Getting started We…