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Blazor WASM configuration in an Azure Static Web app
I had a simple enough requirement, to display the name of the current environment in the title of a Blazor WASM web app. The Blazor code was simple enough: appsettings.json: { "Environment": "local" }...
View ArticleC# interpolate a raw JSON string
It’s sometimes handy (e.g, in test suites) to have a JSON string hardcoded. If you want to interpolate it to insert a variable, use $$, like this: var ratingUnitNumber = "test"; var cloudEvent = $$"""...
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Bicep – How to include a forward slash / in an Azure Service Bus Topic name
An architect at my current client insisted that we rename our Azure Service Bus topic from property-changed to property/changed/v1, to align with some naming convention. Unfortunately, Bicep doesn’t...
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Add authentication to an Azure Static Web App’s API
At my current client we are writing a Blazor WASM app which is deployed as a Static Web App. The backend is an Azure Function which is deployed as a “Bring your own” function, however I think this...
View ArticleHttpTrigger Azure Functions timeout
Here’s an annoying bug I had today. I have an Azure Function which contains both [ServiceBusTrigger] and [HttpTrigger] functions. My HttpTrigger were timing out while debugging locally, for some...
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A nicer free Blazor WASM Data grid, toast, and confirm
A Blazor WASM .NET 8 proof-of-concept project I recently worked needed a data grid. MudBlazor, at the time, it didn’t support .NET 8 WASM. (It might now, I’m not sure). Blazorise – looks good, but I...
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Logging to Application Insights with ILogger in Azure functions on .NET 8
Today I couldn’t figure out why any of my ILogger messages in my Azure Function weren’t appearing in Application Insights. According to my research they should appear as Trace messages....
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“When a Teams webhook request is received” not working from C# HttpClient
I was recently trying to send a message from my application (an Azure Function) to a Teams channel. The current recommended way (by Microsoft) to do this is via a “Teams Workflow”, which is layer over...
View ArticleRemove a secret from your local git commit history
I was recently trying to push some code to Azure DevOps, but I was getting an error: $ git push Enumerating objects: 117, done. Counting objects: 100% (107/107), done. Delta compression using up to 12...
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Azure DevOps Advanced Security not detecting vulnerabilities – 0 components...
Today at a client I noticed that when I built a solution in Visual Studio, I would get Warnings about security vulnerabilities in third party NuGet packages: We had previously setup Azure DevOp’s...
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