Adventures with Azure AD B2C: Authenticating React

I have a React app that I am trying to wire up to Azure AD B2C. I am using James Randall’s library react-azure-adb2c. Wiring it up was a snap, the document was straight-forward on this. When I ran the application I received an UnsupportAuthorityValidation JavaScript error in the console. This is a tracked issue at…

Adventures with Azure: Sample CRUD .NET Core API and Azure Functions

I created a sample CRUD demonstrating API functionality using a .NET Core Web API and Azure Functions. Each project contains RESTful API endpoints for adding, updating, fetching and deleting a record from a database. There are currently two flavors: Cosmos DB 3.0 SDK at https://github.com/mattruma/Heroes Entity Framework Core at https://github.com/mattruma/Heroes/tree/EntityFrameworkCore In the future, I will…

Adventures with Azure: Swagger and XML Comments

For my API projects I like to generate XML comments that are used in conjunction with Swagger to provide better guidance on how to use the API, from methods to models. To do this, I just add the following snippet of code to my Startup.cs file: In the above example I want to include XML…

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Populating Azure Table Storage

Lately, I have been playing around with Azure DevOps, specifically a web application deployment using ARM Templates and Azure PowerShell. I have a project, and an associated GIT repository, in Azure DevOps where I keep my ARM Templates and PowerShell scripts that I use for the deployment of my web application. The release pipeline is…

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Deploying Azure Resource Group

In this article I will demonstrate a couple of ways to deploy an Azure Resource Group using Azure DevOps. Setup To get started you will need to create an Azure DevOps project and a repository. I created a repository in GitHub, called SampleAzureDevOpsResourceGroupDeployment, which can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/SampleAzureDevOpsResourceGroupDeployment. You can also create the GIT…

Adventures with Azure Functions: Dependency Injection

In this article we will look at how to do Dependency Injection with Azure Functions as described in the article athttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-dotnet-dependency-injection. The code for this article can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/SampleDependencyInjectionFunctionApp. To make the most of this article, it will be helpful to be familiar with: Azure Functions Dependency Injection and Dependency Injection in ASP.NET…

Adventures with Cosmos DB: Change Feed – Part 2

In Part 1 we looked at how to setup the Azure environment with a Cosmos DB and several Azure Functions, most of which, would be listening to the Cosmos DB change feed. In Part 2 we will take a deeper dive into each Azure Function and the nuances of working with the Cosmos DB change…

Adventures with Cosmos DB: Change Feed – Part 1

In a recent project I had dig deeper into how the Cosmos DB change feed worked, specifically in conjunction with the Azure Function Cosmos DB Trigger. I had some assumptions on how the Cosmos DB change feed worked, but needed to validate them. This will like be a series of articles. Before we go any…