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Publishing your first C# Azure Function using Visual Studio

In my previous post, I introduced Azure Functions and walked through the process of creating and debugging your first C# function using Visual Studio. This time, I’m covering the topic of deployment and how functions can be published to Azure. After reading this article, you’ll understand how to publish an Azure Function to Azure using…

Creating your first C# Azure Function using Visual Studio

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Azure Functions is an Azure cloud service that allows software developers to focus on writing code that reacts to events, without needing to concern themselves as much with the infrastructure that the code is running on. Azure Functions applications are serverless by nature and can scale to meet demand with minimal overhead and cost. There…

How to update Azure Web App TLS/SSL bindings in bulk using PowerShell

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If you have an Azure Web App with multiple custom domains and you want to enable TLS (Transport Layer Security), you’ll need to add a TLS/SSL certificate binding for each hostname. These bindings can be configured individually via the Azure Portal web interface. However, if the number of hostnames is large, updating the TLS/SSL binding…

Learning the Kusto Query Language (KQL) with Application Insights Logs

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Application Insights is a powerful Azure feature for monitoring web applications. It collects a wide range of useful data that you can analyse either in real-time or by executing queries against logs at a later point in time. The logs that are stored by Application Insights enable you to see how your web requests are…

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

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IdentityServer is the de-facto security token service for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications and it is hugely popular within the .NET community. One of the most important security requirements to consider when setting up IdentityServer is the creation of a key (typically an X.509 certificate) which is used to cryptographically sign and validate tokens…

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

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If you’re looking for a caching solution to help speed up a web application and Azure is your cloud platform of choice, it makes sense to use Azure Cache for Redis. Azure Cache for Redis is a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-hosted caching solution. It is based on the very popular open-source Redis database cache…

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Publishing your first C# Azure Function using Visual Studio

Creating your first C# Azure Function using Visual Studio

How to update Azure Web App TLS/SSL bindings in bulk using PowerShell

Learning the Kusto Query Language (KQL) with Application Insights Logs

How to create and load an IdentityServer signing certificate for Azure

Getting up to speed with Azure Cache for Redis

Creating your first Blazor component

Getting started with Blazor

How ChatGPT can assist with software development