ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
Previous post in series focused on setting up Jekyll build pipeline. After successful build we have new version of blog waiting for publishing in build artifacts folder. This post shows how to publish Jekyll static blog to Azure static website using Azure DevOps release pipeline.
Read moreOur Jekyll site or blog is published to Azure static website automatically using Jekyll build and release pipelines. We can access site through Azure storage URL. To go live we want to use custom domain and we need Azure CDN for this. Here is how to do it.
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Azure Functions V2 supports ASP.NET Core like dependency injection. It is specially good if we write functions that are wrappers for shared libraries and components we are also using in web and other applications of our solution. This blog post shows how to use dependency injection in Azure Functions.
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Hosting WordPress site on Azure virtual machines means keeping away the loads we can serve from cheaper services. Same time we still want to keep site optimized so pages load fast. This blog post shows how to use gzip compression and cache control headers on Azure blob storage.
Read moreAnother day, another disaster with shared hosting. And not this usual gateway-is-down-problem when people are visiting my blog. I started my journey with simple idea – why not WordPress on Azure? After some experiments I got my first results and the picture wasn’t as terrible pricewise as I thought. Here’s my first experiment with WordPress on Azure.
Read moreAs my ASP.NET Core code coverage reports work nice in Azure DevOps build pipeline I took step forward and made builds fail on Azure DevOps if percent of lines covered is below 60. This blog post shows how to do it using ReportGenerator and Build Quality Checks build tasks.
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After making ASP.NET Core code coverage reports work on local box I made step further and made code coverage reports available also on Azure DevOps. This blog post shows how to generate code coverage reports for .NET and ASP.NET Core applications on Azure DevOps.
Read moreI needed automatic version numbering based on current date when web application is built. It was wish by some customers and in their projects it’s okay with it. As their code is covered with automated tests and other diagnostics I’m using Azure DevOps as build server and this is where I made automated date based versioning work.
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As my Blazor demo application supports now Azure AD I took the next step and implemented search using Azure Search service. This blog post shows how to add search capabilities to Blazor application using Azure Functions back.end and Azure Search service.
Read moreAlthough Blazor is in early stages of development it is already good enough to try out and play with it. As a logical continuation to my previous experiment where I made Blazor application use Azure Functions based back-end. I made it also support Azure AD authentication on web application and back-end level. This blog post introduces my work on Blazor and Azure AD.
Read moreMy previous blog post was an introduction to static website hosting on Azure Storage. This post focuses on how to deploy Blazor application as a Azure static website and how to use Azure Functions as a server back-end for Blazor application.
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Azure has new and interesting service for hosting static sites on blob storage. There is no additional server-side application hosting account needed to run public static sites – they run straight from blob storage. Although the service is in public preview, it is time to find out how it works and when we should consider using it.
Read moreComputer Vision API of Azure Cognitive Services can be used to analyze and describe images. It’s rich API that supports also faces and landmarks recognition, not to mention automatic describing and tagging of images. This blog post shows how to use image analyzing features of Azure Cognitive Services.
Read moreAzure Cognitive Services has wider audience than cool young guys developing very cool mobile apps. These services can be used in very different use cases. This blog post shows how to use Azure Cognitive Services to automatically describe and tag photos added to Office 365 SharePoint picture library.
Read moreMicrosoft Cognitive Services offers us computer vision services to describe images and to detect printed or handwritten text. Text recognition provides interesting scenarios like cloud based OCR or providing automated translations for texts on images. This blog post focuses on recognizing printed text using Azure Computer Vision API.
Read moreThere are not much examples available about ASP.NET Core and acquiring access token. I found good and pretty big sample by Microsoft Patterns & Practices called multitenant-saas-guidance, Based on this I wrote my simple “boiler plate” ASP.NET Core solution that authenticates against Azure Active Directory and asks current user data using Microsoft Graph.
Read moreMy previous post about Azure Cognitive Services described how to detect faces on photos. In this post I will focus on identifying people on photos. This post is based on my Azure Cognitive Services sample application that has most of Face API support implemented and the goal is to describe identifying process in brief and also show some code I have written.
Read moreI started playing with Microsoft Cognitive Services and discovered that it makes many otherwise complex tasks very easy. This blog post shows how to build web application that detects faces on uploaded photo.
Read moreWe cannot use classic SharePoint workflows on Office 365 but using Microsoft Flow we can create new era flow applications that are triggered by events that happen in different sources. This blog post shows how to use Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions to send out e-mail when new meeting is added to SharePoint list. The idea of this blog post is to illustrate how to create the flow where custom code takes over in some point.
Read moreAzure Functions supports functions that are invoked by HTTP request. It makes it easy to have some scripted functionalities on cloud that we can invoke by simple HTTP request. This blog post shows how to build and run HTTP-triggered Azure Functions using Visual Studio.
Read moreAzure Active Directory is cloud-based directory service that allows users to use their personal or corporate accounts to log-in to different applications. Local Active Directory can sync data to its cloud counterpart. Also external users are supported. This blog post shows how to make ASP.NET Core application use Azure AD and how to read data that Azure AD provides about user account.
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