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Azure Animal Adoption Agent and Lost & Found

by roscler

Azure based pet adoption agent that helps pet lovers find the perfect pet while saving the lives of kittens & puppies

Azure Service Fabric demo

by Sacha Barber

Azure Service Fabric Demo + IOC, logging, encryption

Online Backgammon

by KristianEkman

An online Angular, .NET 7 Web API, SQL Server on Azure backgammon game

Sketcher : Two Of n

by Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Latest Articles

Azure Logic Apps with AI

by Wessel Beulink

As businesses navigate the end of BizTalk and seek potent data transformation solutions, Azure Logic Apps has surged to the forefront, offering an agile, serverless platform that simplifies workflow automation.

Deploy an Application to Azure Kubernetes Service

by Pranay Bakre

How to deploy applications to the Azure Kubernetes Cluster powered by arm64-based virtual machines

IPv6 Support Now Available for Azure Application Gateway

by Wessel Beulink

IPv6 support enhances Azure Gateway, vital for efficient network management

Using Mermaid in Azure DevOps

by Wessel Beulink

As someone who frequently employs Logic Apps – Azure’s fantastic low-code solution – I’ve come to appreciate its wide range of actions and connectors. One of the keys to this balance? Solid documentation!

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Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

Azure Active Directory Authentication with OpenID Connect and Authorization with App Roles

22 Mar 2021 by DotNetLead.com

Azure AD for authentication and authorization of users for your website

active-directory

Azure Tutorial: Be in Cloud (Part 1) [Introduction]

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Azure Tutorial: Be in Cloud

Tutorial for Building Microservice Applications with Azure Container Apps and Dapr – Part 1

8 Sep 2022 by Taiseer Joudeh

Part 1 of a 10 post tutorial where we will build a full microservices app using Dapr and then deploy it to Azure Container Apps

My first day on Microsoft Windows Azure HPC

3 Jun 2012 by Shweta Lodha

Recently I entered into the Azure’s HPC world and thought toshare something, which I learnt from my experience as a beginner. Today is myfirst step towards the Azure’s HPC.

How to setup a rock solid VM on Windows Azure for your WordPress blogs

26 May 2013 by Omar Al Zabir

How to setup a rock solid VM on Windows Azure for your WordPress blogs.

Storing Time Series in Microsoft Azure Table Storage

5 May 2015 by Cybermaxs

How to store time series in Microsoft Azure Table Storage

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

5 Apr 2013 by AssemblySoft

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install

23 Sep 2014 by AssemblySoft

Upgrading Windows Azure Storage Emulator fails with error message 'Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install'

Azure Functions Tutorial – New Function App

4 Jul 2016 by Sarmaad Amin

Azure Functions, a new service offered recently by Microsoft, has a huge potential to be a game changer in cloud computing and is especially valuable in implementation of microservices and IoT. This post walks you through the very basic activity of creating a Function App and explores an example.

Sharing Code Between Azure Functions

27 Dec 2016 by Jeremy Hutchinson

How to share code between Azure functions

How to Configure the Azure Traffic Manager

9 Nov 2017 by matthewproctor

How to configure the Azure Traffic manager

Azure Functions and Serverless Computing

29 Aug 2018 by Sander Rossel

Get started with Azure Functions and serverless computing in Azure. We'll see what serverless computing is and how it's implemented in Functions.

Deploying ASP.NET Boilerplate Apps for Devs in a Hurry

26 Aug 2020 by Lee P Richardson

This is the story of my first site, where I threw the SPA (Single Page Application) into ASP.NET Core's wwwroot directory, and slung it up to Azure App Services as a single site, and called it a day.

3 Ways To Refactor EF Linq Queries w/o Killing Perf

7 Sep 2019 by Lee P Richardson

This blog post lists 3 days to refactor EF Linq queries without killing Perf

entity-framework

FirstCloudApp in Production

8 Dec 2011 by Ganesan Senthilvel

FirstCloudApp in Production

Installing Ubuntu VM in Azure

15 Nov 2013 by Johan Ohlin

Installing Ubuntu VM in Azure.

virtual-machine

Azure: How To Publish A Web Site From VS2013 to Azure

4 Nov 2014 by Sacha Barber

How to publish a web site from VS2013 to Azure

Azure Veneziano – Part 1

7 Nov 2014 by Mario Vernari

How to create your own telemetry control using Azure

Using Azure Resource Manager

17 Dec 2014 by Gordon Beeming

Using Azure Resource Manager

Setting Up Web Endpoint Monitoring in Azure

3 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

This post will show you how to set up web endpoint monitoring from within Azure.

Load Testing Using Azure

8 Oct 2015 by Gordon Beeming

Load testing using Azure

Automated Backup of Azure Storage Tables and Blobs

2 Mar 2016 by Keith Holloway

Automated Backup of Azure Storage Tables and Blobs

Integrate Azure AD B2C with ASP.NET MVC Web App – Part 3

30 Aug 2016 by Taiseer Joudeh

This is the third part of the tutorial which will cover Using Azure AD B2C tenant with ASP.NET Web API 2 and various front-end clients. Azure Active Directory B2C Overview and Policies Management – (Part 1) Secure ASP.NET Web API 2 using Azure AD B2C – (Part 2) Integrate Azure Active Dir

Backup your SQLite database with zero downtime when running Ghost in Azure Web Apps

16 Sep 2016 by Tom Chantler

If you're hosting your Ghost blog in Azure then you're probably not backing up your database, even if you think you are. I wasn't, but I am now. Here's how.

Creating Custom Key Store Provider for SQL Always Encrypted (Without Key Vault Example PoC)

16 Oct 2016 by Z Kavtaskin

How to create a Custom Key Store Provider for SQL Always Encrypted (Without Key Vault Example PoC)

Azure Search for Jekyll

19 Dec 2016 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Azure Search for Jekyll

How Can I Deploy My ASP.NET Website to Microsoft Azure?

5 Jan 2017 by levelnis

How to deploy your ASP.NET website to Microsoft Azure

Top 5 Pieces of Advice for Users of Microsoft Cognitive Services

12 Mar 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is a small post, containing a few suggestions for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Simple Deploy to Azure from Command Line

1 Sep 2017 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Simple deploy to Azure from Command line

Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure

27 Jan 2019 by Gaston Verelst

In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.

Keeping the lights on! – Architecting for availability?

5 Nov 2019 by Kevin Mack

Hello all, It’s been a while since I did a blog post outside of the weekly updates. But I wanted to do one in terms of conversations that I’ve been having a lot lately and seems to be largely universal. High Availability.

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

Stateful Serverless: Long-Running Workflows with Durable Functions

22 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Stateful serverless: long running workflows with durable functions

App Settings in Client-Side Blazor

19 Dec 2019 by Jeremy Hutchinson

I’ve been spoiled by Asp.Net and expect app settings to just work, but there is no easily configured app settings story for client-side Blazor yet. What I’m looking for is the ability to set some settings on a per-environment (dev/test/beta/prod) through Azure App Service Application Settings.

Articles: Generate SAS token to access Azure Storage

8 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

When you create an Azure Storage account to store files in a container you can set the permissions to what ever access level you want, and you can generate tokens to access the blob storage account with set periods of time. That’s what we’re going to do here today.. 0.

Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub)

10 May 2020 by Gaston Verelst

How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub

Top 5 advices for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services

10 Jan 2022 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Introduction and Background As the title suggests, this post is a personal recommendation for the users of Microsoft Cognitive Services, the services that provide a cloud-based subscription-based solution for artificially intelligent software applications, with an any team, any purpose and any scale

Strongly Typed, Dependency Managed Azure in C#: Introducing Cake.AzureCLI

4 Mar 2020 by Lee P Richardson

How to provide strongly typed, cross platform, dependency managed access to all 2,935 Azure CLI commands in C#

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010: Issues Faced and Quick Fixes

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010

Getting Started in Azure - The PhluffyFotos Sample Application

3 Sep 2010 by TheyCallMeMrJames

A 30 minute walkthrough of the Azure PhluffyFotos application, followed by some comments and exploration of the solution.

Introduction to Azure AppFabric

15 Feb 2011 by Alex Koval (www.codemastersintl.com)

Introduction to Azure AppFabric

Instrumenting your Azure App with Performance Counters

2 Mar 2011 by Alex Koval (www.codemastersintl.com)

Monitoring the health of your application in Windows Azure via Performance Counters

Store Data from an HTML Canvas as a Byte[] and Save it in Azure

2 Jul 2014 by Sacha Barber

How to store data from an HTML Canvas as a Byte[] and save it in Azure

Setup your SharePoint 2013 Farm in Microsoft Azure with just a few clicks

16 Aug 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj

Setup your SharePoint 2013 Farm in Microsoft Azure with just a few clicks

Understanding Azure Role Topology Changes

15 Sep 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

Understanding Azure role topology changes

Azure Veneziano – Part 3

4 Dec 2014 by Mario Vernari

How to create your own telemetry control using Azure.

Creating a New Azure Active Directory User

17 Dec 2014 by Gordon Beeming

How to create a new Azure Active Directory user

Azure Veneziano – LinkIt ONE

29 Dec 2014 by Mario Vernari

This post follows my first one on Internet-of-Things telemetry project based on Azure.

Using a Custom Domain with an Azure WebSite

30 Jan 2015 by Rion Williams

How to use a custom domain with an Azure website

Azure: Upload and Stream Video Content to WPF from Blob Storage

15 Jun 2015 by Sacha Barber

Azure: how to upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage

Using Google Tag Manager to Deploy Azure Application Insights Client-side Monitoring

5 Jan 2017 by Alexander Turlov

How to use Google Tag Manager to deploy Azure Application Insights Client-side Monitoring

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Laying Foundations in Azure

31 Oct 2016 by Graham D Smith

Laying Foundations in Azure

On-schedule and On-demand Azure VMs using Runbooks + Microsoft Flow

3 Nov 2016 by BC3Tech

Since using the new Azure “V2” VMs I had a complaint: I can’t (easily) set up a schedule for my VMs like I was able to with Classic VMs and the Classic Management dashboard.

Failing Over this Blog to the Cloud (Azure)

29 Nov 2016 by Sujay Sarma

Failing Over this Blog to the Cloud (Azure)

How Can I Keep Code Quality High When Publishing to Azure?

19 Jan 2017 by levelnis

Part 3 of a series on deploying to Microsoft Azure

Continuous Delivery to Azure App Services with VSTS

5 Mar 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I provide an overview of using Visual Studio Team Services to automatically deploy the ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Services.

continuous-delivery

Translating Text with Azure Cognitive Services

22 May 2017 by Richard James Moss

An article covering the basics of using Azure cognitive services to translate text via simple HTTP requests

Create Your First VM in Azure

24 Jul 2017 by Passion4Code

How to create your first VM in Azure

Azure Automation using Powershell

31 Jul 2017 by Passion4Code

Azure automation using Powershell

ASP.NET Core Apps in Docker Swarm Deployed to Azure

2 Oct 2017 by User 1043264

How to deploy a cluster of ASP.NET Core applications using Docker Swam mode in Azure. Continue reading

Using Azure API Management to Prevent Denial of Wallet Attacks

6 Nov 2017 by BC3Tech

While it would be high near impossible to DDoS a solution running on a serverless platform (scaling would just continue to handle all the requests it needed to), somebody still has to pay for the execution.

Going Serverless with Internet-of-Things and Azure Functions

29 Apr 2018 by harleydk

Going serverless with Internet-of-Things and Azure Functions

Azure AD B2C with ASP.NET Core 2.0

19 May 2018 by User 1043264

How to implement Azure AD B2C authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.0. Continue reading...

Make Serverless Music – Orchestrate Your Workflow with Azure [Part 3 – Azure Functions]

31 May 2018 by BC3Tech

With that in mind, let’s implement our solution from earlier in this series in Azure Functions.

Make Serverless Music – Orchestrate Your Workflow with Azure [Part 4 – Durable Functions]

1 Jun 2018 by BC3Tech

The last in the series, a walk through on taking our problem statement and implementing it with the new abstraction from the Azure Functions team, Durable Functions...

Share Code Like a Boss: Part 1 - Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

29 Apr 2019 by Lee P Richardson

Private NuGet Feeds in Azure DevOps

Serverless HTTP With Durable Functions

20 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Durable functions enable implicit and explicit state management for serverless workflows and accommodate a variety of patterns. A new addition, the HTTP task, helps manage interactions with HTTP endpoints including error handling and support for long polling.

Predictive Maintenance on .NET Platform

5 Dec 2019 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Predictive maintenance on .NET platform

machine-learning

Azure: Crossdomain.xml inside Root of Blob Storage

12 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

How to implement a crossdomain.xml file to allow the Flash client to connect to my site

Create an Azure Virtual Machine with Terraform

28 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Using Terraform to create an Azure Virtual Machine

virtual-machine

Microsoft Certifications – Explained

27 Feb 2020 by Kevin Mack

Different options for certification on the Azure platform

continuous-delivery

High Availability – A Storage Architecture

27 Feb 2020 by Kevin Mack

A blog about availability in the cloud and how to build applications that are architected for resiliency.

high-availability

Cloud Networking and Security

24 Apr 2020 by Kevin Mack

Some areas to focus on for Cloud Security

Terraform – Key Rotation Gotcha!

14 May 2020 by Kevin Mack

So I did want to write about something that I discovered recently when investigating a question. The idea being Key rotation, and how TerraForm state is impacted. So the question being this, if you have a key vault and you ask any security expert.

Azure AD Secured Serverless Cosmos DB from Blazor WebAssembly

26 May 2020 by Jeremy Likness

How can you connect securely without storing credentials in the client and hosting your own identity service? The solution is to use Azure Active Directory for authentication and communicate securely with a serverless Azure Function.

active-directory

TerraForm – Using the New Azure AD Provider

4 Jun 2020 by Kevin Mack

How to use the new Azure AD provider in Terraform

active-directory

Azure Cosmos DB With EF Core on Blazor Server

21 Jul 2021 by Jeremy Likness

This article walks you through my project Planetary Docs, a repository that showcases a full application that supports Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD) using Blazor (Server), Entity Framework Core and Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Storage Caching and Compression – The Missing Piece

2 Jan 2023 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

Azure Storage Caching and Compression

Deep Data Dive with Kusto for Azure Data Explorer and Log Analytics

12 Apr 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Some ah-hah moments about Kusto

How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with ARM Template

9 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Instructions detailing creation of an Azure Virtual Machine using ARM templates in PowerShell, emphasizing steps from setting up the ARM template to deploying it

virtual-machine

Understanding Cold Starts in Azure Functions and Recent Optimizations

6 Jan 2024 by Wessel Beulink

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless compute service, lets you run event-driven code without having to manage the infrastructure.

Azure Automation Runbooks in 2024

25 Jan 2024 by Wessel Beulink

Azure spearheads cloud evolution, Azure Automation Runbooks manage hybrid/SOC environments effectively

New Azure API Center Portal

1 Feb 2024 by Wessel Beulink

Azure API Center Portal streamlines API management; Visual Studio Code extension enhances collaboration and productivity within Azure ecosystem.

Getting Started with Terraform

4 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

Terraform allows you to setup Infrastructure as expressed by code (Infrastructure As Code IaC). This post helps you to get started with Terraform.

IPv6 Support Now Available for Azure Application Gateway

22 Mar 2024 by Wessel Beulink

IPv6 support enhances Azure Gateway, vital for efficient network management

Azure Logic Apps with AI

N 12 Apr 2024 by Wessel Beulink

As businesses navigate the end of BizTalk and seek potent data transformation solutions, Azure Logic Apps has surged to the forefront, offering an agile, serverless platform that simplifies workflow automation.

artificial-intelligence

Azure Tutorial; Be in Cloud (Part 4) [Worker Role]

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Azure Tutorial; Be in Cloud (Part 4) [Worker Role]

TFS Azure – Technical Access Preview Experience!

16 Sep 2011 by Tarun_Arora

Technical access preview experience in TFS Azure

Your Azure Web Role and Full IIS – Culture Changes

16 Sep 2011 by M Sheik Uduman Ali

Your Azure Web Role and Full IIS – Culture Changes

TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to Work with TFS Azure

18 Sep 2011 by Tarun_Arora

Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure

Part 1 - Load Testing in the Cloud

2 Dec 2011 by Tarun_Arora

I’ll try and cover the start to end of everything you need to know to use Azure to build your Test Rig in the cloud.

Scenarios of MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online Usage in Windows Azure Hosted Applications and Silverlight Applications with Cross Domain Access

3 Aug 2012 by Pavel Korsukov

Usage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online data in external applications

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure

1 Feb 2013 by Pavel Korsukov

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure.

'Unable to connect to the remote server' Error with Azure Table Storage

23 Jan 2013 by Paul S. Chapman

Azure's storage functionality error solved.

Understanding Azure Media Service Core Components

15 Apr 2013 by Melick

Understanding Azure Media Service Core Components.

Choosing the Right Data Provider

20 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson

How to choose the right data provider

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend – Part Three

2 Jul 2014 by IInjac

Basics of custom controllers

Creating an Azure Cloud Service

21 Aug 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

How to create an Azure Cloud Service

Enabling Diagnostics in Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines: Part 1

22 Sep 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

How to enable diagnostics in Azure Cloud services and virtual machines