I wrote an article here that discussed a Hello World WebJob. The WebJob I use in this example can be downloaded here and I discuss here. Here is an additional resource for setting up CRON to run a WebJob. The requirements for this are: Your App Service must run in either a Standard or Premium […]
Read More →Archive for December, 2016
How (I) configured Azure Active Directory into my ASP.NET MVC OWIN web application
Before I get started, keep in mind, that I am not a security expert, if you want to enable security for your Azure App Service Web App I recommend using EasyAuth as described here, so much easier, IMO. You likely get some benefits from the ‘Change Authentication’ features of: No Authentication Individual User Accounts Work […]
Read More →How to get started with using LUIS, Language Understanding Intelligent Service, Skype Bot
This article is about consuming the LUIS API from a C# console app as seen in Figure 1. Instructions on how to configure and setup LUIS can be found here. NOTE: You might want to look at Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Luis and Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Luis.Models which provide a nice interface to LUIS. The source code can be downloaded here as […]
Read More →CodeDom provider type could not be located
Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: The CodeDom provider type “Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform .CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35” could not be located. Source Error: […]
Read More →Bot Framework 405 Method Not Allowed, 401 Unauthorized and 500, Internal Server Error getting started
I have been working with the Bot Framework available from here. While I was testing it out I encountered 3 road blocks that I will share just to make it move along faster if you happen to encounter the same. I followed these instructions which worked just fine. The issue I faced were during the […]
Read More →Brain Interface data analysis
I wrote this article here that describes what I am doing. I am in the process of creating the article that explains in complete detail how I did it. I expect to complete it by August or September. The best way to determine if a brain interface can really trigger an event, is by ensuring […]
Read More →Using Azure App Services to Convert a Web Page to PDF
Please have a read of an article I wrote about converting an HTML page to a PDF in real-time. It was published in this month’s MSDN Magazine. Figure 1, Using Azure App Services to Convert a Web Page to PDF
Read More →Uploading my brain waves to the cloud, Azure IoT Hub and Emotiv brain interface
I have been reading a lot about brain interfaces and that the Tesla S can be summoned with the brain and that people have started having competitions with drones controlled by brain waves. I have recently acquired an Emotiv Insight® as shown in Figure 1 and have been doing some testing with it. Figure 1, […]
Read More →Dynatrace Extension causes application crashes after WS2016
Some customers have reported that since Windows Server 2016 their applications are crashing unexpectedly. Restarts and scaling did not help. This has been isolated to an issue with versions of the Dynatrace Extension (installed through the Azure portal) prior to v1.18. The current version of the extension is 1.18.1009 and old versions can be updated […]
Read More →Troubleshooting a hung or long running WebJob
If you can reproduce the slow running WebJob behavior you have hosted with your Azure App Service Web App, Mobile App or API App then you can find out why using the following article. Additionally, if the WebJob is in a hung state, skip right to the portion where you take the memory dump of […]
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