Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. There’s an orchestration pattern named Fan out/fan in that can be helpful for conta...

Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. It can return helpful information, including a status uri, but this contains a secr...

While working with HTTP calls that return a Stream via HttpClient’s var response = await SendAsync(request, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead); -> var stream = await response.Content.Read...

If you’re working with Azure Web Apps and securing between services using managed identity, formerly known as Managed Service Identity (MSI), it can be useful to retrieve an access token on behalf ...

Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. When starting a new process, you may want to verify it isn’t already running by che...

Quick summary Get-AzureADObjectByObjectId -ObjectIds 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Comma delimit for multiples. Details If you’re working with Azure you may find yourself needing to get...

I made some ARM templates changes and unintentionally removed Access Policy items from an Azure Key Vault in a (thankfully) non-production environment. Since the ARM template doesn’t have the befor...

I wrote some benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet for ADO.NET C# code targeting LocalDB. Here’s what I found: Results BenchmarkDotNet=v0.12.1, OS=Windows 10.0.19042 Intel Core i7-1065G7 CPU 1.30GHz, ...

If you’re looking to monitor the state of your web application during a deployment it can be useful to run a bunch of requests to see the impact during deployment. We can use a load testing tool, l...

Here’s a C# solution for dynamic parameters inside a SQL string: var items = new[] { "a", "b", "c" }; var connection = new SqliteConnection($"Data Source={Filename}"); await connection.OpenAsync()...