When configuring Always Encrypted via Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) it’s easy just to right click your database or tables ‘Encrypt Columns’ and go from there. When developing locally this will probably be fine and everything works as expected. When Read more…
We are using Serilog along with Seq for logging against one of our Asp.Net Core applications and wanted to be able to stand up the Seq docker image automatically when launching the application, including downloading the docker image if it Read more…
ML.Net is the open source machine learning framework, created by Microsoft, for the cross-platform .NET developer platform. Regardless of your experience with machine learning or the ML.NET framework itself, this post will hopefully have something for you. ML.Net can start Read more…
I have been using the new Windows Terminal along with PowerShell Core lately and followed the latest steps from Scott Hanselman to add some nice functionality, fonts and colours to my terminal. You can read the blog post here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToMakeAPrettyPromptInWindowsTerminalWithPowerlineNerdFontsCascadiaCodeWSLAndOhmyposh.aspx One Read more…
Prior to having kids, when I had missed out on training for a pro-longed period of time, I could always reboot by ordering a batch of protein, starting a new training plan and throwing myself into a 4 day regime Read more…
A Primer .NET Core 3.0 has brought a swath of exciting new features, some of which I have blogged about before, such as Blazor (if you haven’t already check out my course here ‘Zero to Azure Hero with ASP.NET Core, Read more…
I have been using the ‘byPrereleaseNumber’ versioning strategy in my Azure DevOps pipelines for a project’s libraries and we are now moving a number of the libraries to 1.0 Investigating the options available I came accross the ‘Counters’ feature categorised Read more…
I try to keep up with the pace of change on the Azure ecosystem, however missed one change that left me stumped for several hours yesterday. I was deploying a quick and dirty Web App to Azure App Service that Read more…
When developing API Controllers in ASP.NET Core you may run into the following error when trying to use multiple HTTP verbs of the same type in a controller (or in a base controller if using inheritence) AmbiguousMatchException: The request matched Read more…
In light of the recent “Collection #1” Data Breach containing a whopping 2,692,818,238 rows of data that was recently uploaded to the ‘Have I been Pwned’ site by Troy Hunt, I wanted to update my Password Manager of choice ‘KeePass‘ to check all of Read more…