I have been using the Microsoft Band since it was brought to market and I am a big fan of it. Although I actively use all its features, I have learned the most about myself and made the most changes to myself based on the data captured during my sleep. (be sure to read the […]
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I wrote an article here that describes how to connect to a Web App from IIS manager. If you cannot do that, read down at the bottom of the article where I show the configuration you can add to the web.config manually. Here is a document that discusses this feature in more detail. Once you […]
Read More →If you have ever wondered how to find the outgoing IP address of your Web App, Mobile App, API App or Logic App, look no further. To see how to find the OUTBOUND IP ADDRESSES from the Azure portal, view Video 1 (removed). Video 1, find outgoing, outbound IP addresses from the portal You can […]
Read More →I wrote an article here that discusses how to troubleshoot a WebJob, during the creation of that post I found decided to figure out this technique as well (calling the WebJob API). Originally, I was using the Azure SDK to trigger the WebJob from Visual Studio Server Explorer, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, […]
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Once you have captured a memory dump, instead of, or in addition to using WinDbg to analyze the memory dump, you can use a tool called DebugDiag which can be downloaded here. I discuss how to capture a memory dump in numerous ways here. After installing the debugging tool, make sure have opened the Debug […]
Read More →I worked on a case where the customer stated that their Web App was pretty small but when looking at the File System Storage metric in the Azure portal, they saw that is consumed almost 30 GB. The way I recommended they check it out is to use the KUDU console. I wrote an article […]
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I was asked a question about if the Application Request Router supports the HTTP 2 protocol on IIS 10 (not sure what it will be called). I was pretty confident that it did, but nothing beats a test to confirm it. So that is what I did. I used this article here that contains some […]
Read More →Beginning C# 6 Programming with Visual Studio 2015, co-author Benjamin Perkins The Beginning C# 6 Programming with Visual Studio 2015 book is now available, check it out. I had the opportunity to contribute a some chapters to it. What an awesome experience! There are lots of examples, experiences, discussions and reviews of the new features […]
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I was reading this article here which made a lot of sense. There was a bit of confusion on my part that was touched on as originally I assumed that ASP.NET 5 was the newer version of ASP.NET 4.6 while in fact it was a whole new branch of the feature. With branch I mean, […]
Read More →When you are experiencing slowness with your ASP.NET application, one place to check is if the application is being recycled. If the application is being recycled over and over again, then sessions and application settings are lost and it has a pretty big impact on your users and customers. A place to begin your investigation […]
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