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 doesn’t already exist. To demonstrate how to do this I 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 to get a little more difficult once you venture outside 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 thing I did find tricky was getting all of the 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, Blazor, Azure DevOps, Cognitive Services, SonarCloud and App Services‘ here). 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 under ‘Expressions’ within the Azure DevOps documentation site This useful feature 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 required a periodic file drop from an Azure CI/CD pipeline. 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 multiple endpoints. Normally the solution is to modify one of 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 my existing and new passwords against passwords found in this Read more…
I periodically have to dip into an ASP.NET Web Forms application and supporting libraries and tests running on the full fat .NET Framework however 99% of my current development work is using the new ASP.NET Core and my current preference is using the CLI tools along with VSCode. The Web Read more…
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…