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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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Designing Your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

25 Jan 2016 by Abdelrahman El Kinani

How to design your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP demo

Designing your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

15 Apr 2019 by Abdelrahman El Kinani

Azure MySQL DB, how to design it, basic UWP todo demo

Azure IOT Hub REST API

21 Jul 2016 by adityaswami89

Azure IOT Hub REST API

Serverless Computing with Azure Functions

7 Feb 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article primarily focuses on the basics of serverless computing and how they emerged. It also talks about other changes such as NoOps. Finally, a sample Azure Function is shown as an example. This is just the introduction post. In future posts, I will give more explanation for Functions.

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

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.

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

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

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

Deploy Azure Website

12 Jul 2015 by Anooj Nair

Deploy Azure website

Azure DocumentDB – CRUD Operations

31 Jul 2015 by Anooj Nair

Azure documents - CRUD operations

Migrating your Old TFVC Repository to Git with Full History in Azure DevOps

15 Mar 2021 by Arun Endapally

How to migrate your old repositories in TFVC to Git with full history

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'

Windows Azure Storage Emulator Failed to Install

5 Feb 2018 by AssemblySoft

Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install...

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

Predictive Maintenance on .NET Platform

5 Dec 2019 by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Predictive maintenance on .NET platform

machine-learning

Dev for the cloud… IN the cloud (pt 2)

14 Nov 2013 by BC3Tech

You can't dev for Windows 8 (8.1) from that OS using VS 2013. What a bummer. But what to do?

Dev for the cloud… IN the cloud

14 Nov 2013 by BC3Tech

We have tools that can create VHD files from the system they’re running within (Disk2Vhd) and we have Azure with the capability to run an externally-created VHD.

Create Your Own Hosted NuGet Server in Azure

7 Jan 2015 by BC3Tech

How to create your own hosted NuGet Server 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.

Monitoring the Nuget feed using Azure Functions

17 Jul 2017 by BC3Tech

Serverless approaches are great for quick, simple jobs that need to run periodically - let's explore using Azure Functions for just one such application; to poll the Nuget feed for updates to a package we're interested in.

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.

Locally debugging an Azure Function triggered by Azure Event Grid

30 Nov 2017 by BC3Tech

Event Grid subscriptions point to an https endpoint. When using Azure Functions as the subscriber, how can you locally debug your events?

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...

A Simple Branching Strategy to Work in CI/CD and Code Review Policy in Agile

26 Apr 2019 by Benktesh Sharma

Here is a simple branching strategy to work in CI/CD and code review policy in Agile

continuous-delivery

Creating an Azure Cloud Service

21 Aug 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

How to create an Azure Cloud Service

Understanding Azure Role Topology Changes

15 Sep 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

Understanding Azure role topology changes

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

Enabling Diagnostics in Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines: Part 2

29 Sep 2014 by Bibhu Dutta

In this post, we will take a look at the diagnostics.wadcfg configuration file, understanding the various sections it has.

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.

Storing Time Series in Microsoft Azure Table Storage

5 May 2015 by Cybermaxs

How to store time series in Microsoft Azure Table Storage

Building and Deploying (CI/CD) Angular Applications using GitHub and Azure

8 May 2021 by DotNetLead.com

How to build and deploy Angular application using GitHub and Azure

Building OpenAI Chat Application with Angular, ASP.NET API, and Azure

13 Oct 2023 by DotNetLead.com

How to build an OpenAI chat application using Angular, ASP.NET API, and Azure

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

Event Streams on Windows Azure: Choosing the Storage Type

9 Jan 2016 by Duncan Edwards Jones

If you are using Windows Azure as a backing technology for an event store based system, there are three possible choices, each with pros and cons.

Azure .NET Core Web App and Where to Locate Static Files

11 Feb 2019 by frez

In Azure your web app is written to the “d:\home\site\wwwroot” folder, and if you deploy with Visual Studio and choose “Remove additional files at destination” anything not in your project will be removed from “d:\home\site\wwwroot”.

FirstCloudApp in Production

8 Dec 2011 by Ganesan Senthilvel

FirstCloudApp in Production

Architecture of a Polyglot Azure Application

4 Aug 2017 by Gaston Verelst

Architecture of a Polyglot Azure Application

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.

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

Using Azure Resource Manager

17 Dec 2014 by Gordon Beeming

Using Azure Resource Manager

Creating a New Azure Active Directory User

17 Dec 2014 by Gordon Beeming

How to create a new Azure Active Directory user

Load Testing Using Azure

8 Oct 2015 by Gordon Beeming

Load testing using Azure

Moving Application Insights Resources Between Subscriptions in Azure

3 Jan 2018 by Gordon Beeming

How to move application insights resources between subscriptions in Azure

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Laying Foundations in Azure

31 Oct 2016 by Graham D Smith

Laying Foundations in Azure

Going Serverless with Internet-of-Things and Azure Functions

29 Apr 2018 by harleydk

Going serverless with Internet-of-Things and Azure Functions

WAP:Service Bus 1.1 (preview) for Windows Server – Your private Service Bus installation using Hyper-V

23 Sep 2013 by IInjac

WAP:Service Bus 1.1 (preview) for Windows Server.

Automate SVG templating on Windows Azure – The Azure Badge Generator

5 Nov 2013 by IInjac

Automate SVG templating on Windows Azure.

How to Install Fonts into an Azure Worker Role Instance using a Startup Task

5 Nov 2013 by IInjac

How to install fonts into an Azure Worker Role instance using a startup task

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend – Part Three

2 Jul 2014 by IInjac

Basics of custom controllers

Connect to Azure SQL Database with PowerShell Core

25 May 2023 by Illya Reznykov

The post describes how to use token-based authentication to run SQL queries against Azure SQL Database.

Connection Strings in Azure Application Configuration Services

18 Nov 2016 by jamuro77

Connection Strings in Azure Application Configuration Services

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

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

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

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

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Azure Tutorial: Be in Cloud

How to Configure Extensions for Azure Postgres Flexible Server

21 Dec 2022 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

Migrate Azure Postgres database to a Flexible Server

Azure Storage Caching and Compression – The Missing Piece

2 Jan 2023 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

Azure Storage Caching and Compression

Azure Search for Jekyll

19 Dec 2016 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Azure Search for Jekyll

Sharing Code Between Azure Functions

27 Dec 2016 by Jeremy Hutchinson

How to share code between Azure functions

Azure Blobs vs AWS S3

28 Mar 2017 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Azure blobs vs AWS S3

Simple Deploy to Azure from Command Line

1 Sep 2017 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Simple deploy to Azure from Command line

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.

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.

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.

Introducing Durable Entities for Serverless State

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how durable entities provide explicit management of state in serverless applications and guarantee operations are safe to execute without concurrency conflicts.

Using LINQ to Query Dynamic Schema-less Cosmos DB Documents

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

A look at the latest Azure SDKs for .NET with a sample .NET Core app that uses the Cosmos DB SDK and LINQ to iterate over documents with a dynamic schema.

More Hugo Migration Tips

21 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

This post continues my series about how I migrated from Medium to Hugo.

Stateful Serverless: Long-Running Workflows with Durable Functions

22 Nov 2019 by Jeremy Likness

Stateful serverless: long running workflows with durable functions

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

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.

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

12 Apr 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Some ah-hah moments about Kusto

Azure failed me

24 Feb 2013 by jgauffin

How Azure failed me.

Remote desktop connection to Ubuntu VM in the Azure cloud using an SSH tunnel

15 Nov 2013 by Johan Ohlin

This post describes how to setup a graphical user interface and connect to it through an encrypted tunnel.

virtual-machine

Installing Ubuntu VM in Azure

15 Nov 2013 by Johan Ohlin

Installing Ubuntu VM in Azure.

virtual-machine

Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control

25 Oct 2013 by John Atten

Deploying an Azure website from source control.

Automated Backup of Azure Storage Tables and Blobs

2 Mar 2016 by Keith Holloway

Automated Backup of Azure Storage Tables and Blobs

Azure Series - Part 1A Azure Websites

24 Mar 2015 by Kevin Mack

Azure Series - Part 1A Azure Websites

Building out Azure Container Registry in Terraform

13 Apr 2019 by Kevin Mack

How to build out Azure container registry in Terraform

virtual-machine

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.

RT? – Making Sense of High Availability

2 Dec 2019 by Kevin Mack

Hello all, in keeping with the last post on the blog, I started doing some posts around High Availability, so ultimately the focus here is how do I architect my solution to ensure that is meets the availability demands of my customers.

How to Learn TerraForm

27 Feb 2020 by Kevin Mack

Some educational resources to learn TerraForm

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

Reserved Instances and Where Everyone Gets It Wrong

14 Apr 2020 by Kevin Mack

Cost projections and figuring out gross margin in cloud computing

Cloud Networking and Security

24 Apr 2020 by Kevin Mack

Some areas to focus on for Cloud Security

Azure Search SDK in Government

10 May 2020 by Kevin Mack

How to get Azure Search SDK to work in Government

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.

Configuring SQL for High Availability in Terraform

24 May 2020 by Kevin Mack

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

How to Pull Blobs Out of Archive Storage

16 Jul 2020 by Kevin Mack

When storing data in Azure blob storage, the process of upload a blob is fairly straight forward, and all it takes is setting the access tier to “Archive” to move data to blob storage.

Adding Application Insights to Azure Functions

9 Aug 2020 by Kevin Mack

A quick post on adding application insights to Azure functions

AI / Analytics Tools in Azure

21 Apr 2020 by Kevin Mack

Some resources to help with Artificial Intelligence in Azure if you are looking for some demos to show the “art of the possible” or tools to start

machine-learning

virtual-machine

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

Code Sharing Part 2: Automatic Semantic Versioning of NuGet Deploys

28 May 2019 by Lee P Richardson

How to automatically incorporate semantic version information into NuGet libraries during building, packaging, and publishing of .Net libraries to private NuGet feeds.

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

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 Access Blob Storage from an Azure Web Site

7 Jan 2016 by levelnis

We recently encountered the dreaded 'Not running in a hosted service or the Development Fabric' yellow screen of death whilst developing a client website hosted inside Azure. This post outlines one approach to accessing Blob/Table/Queue Storage services from an Azure Web Site.