I have been working with the ‘Always Encrypted’ feature within SQL Server with a legacy project running the full .Net Framework (4.7) along with Entity Framework 6. I had been exploring the different SQL Server Encryption options available, firstly looking at TDE (Transparent Data Encryption), however support for that is limited to Read more…
In this final post in our Zero to Azure Hero series I will cover some tips and tricks such as adding status badges to your GitHub ReadMe page and creating an Azure DevOps dashboard to monitor your Pipelines. To add an Azure Build Pipeline status badge to our GitHub page, from the Read more…
In the previous post we built out our Web Application using ASP.NET Blazor, we are now going to push this to a new GitHub repository then setup an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy direct to Azure App Services. Create a new repository on GitHub for your project, Read more…
In the previous posts in this series we have developed our Twitter Sentiment Analysis library using Azure Cognitive Services, in this post we will build a Web Application with ASP.NET Core Blazor to use our library. Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser Read more…
In this post on we will build upon the work covered in the previous posts in this series to build in Sentiment Analysis functionality to our library using Azure Cognitive Services From the official site, Azure Cognitive Services enables you to ‘Infuse your apps, websites and bots with intelligent algorithms to see, hear, speak, understand Read more…
SonarCloud is the hosted version of the popular SonarQube code quality tool from SonarSource that provides tooling to analyse code for quality, vulnerabilities and bugs. The main features of SonarCloud are: SonarCloud is free for Open Source projects however offer a range of paid plans to suit your individual needs. If you Read more…
In part 3 of this blog post series we configured our first Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. In this post we will enhance our pipeline to create a NuGet package for our Twitter Sentiment Analysis library then publish this to a private Azure Artifacts feed ready for consumption in our Web Application. Read more…
In part 2 of this blog post series we started to build out our Twitter Sentiment Analysis functionality and tests, this blog post will cover pushing our library to GitHub and creating our first CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps services. I’m assuming you are familiar with Git and GitHub. If you Read more…
In part 1 of this blog post series we introduced the application we will be building. This post will cover building out our Twitter Sentiment Analysis functionality using C#, Asp.Net Core and xUnit.net for our tests. To get started we will create a folder for our library and tests, open your command Read more…
In this 9 part blog post series (link to all posts at bottom of this page), I revisit the Sentiment Analysis application I developed for Wholeschool as part of our Pluralsight course on IBM BlueMix now rebranded IBM Cloud (If you have a Pluralsight account be sure to check out the course!) During the Read more…