Although I really prefer GUIs over scripts, I still find myself needing to help others resolve scripting issues. I recently needed to help find the way to scale an Azure App Service Web App from the default Tier of FREE to STANDARD. FREE is default when created from PowerShell and you do not provide a […]
Read More →I found this article “Creating a local PFX copy of App Service Certificate” here and wanted to do a reproduction of it. I wrote an article here where I discussed “How (I) configured an App Service Certificate for my Azure App Service” which might help to get a broader perspective of what and how to […]
Read More →If you received a 404 after deploying your ASP.NET Core 1.1 application, see the end of this article in section “404 when accessing ASP.NET Core 1.1” do find out a solution and the reason. The deployment of an ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web API or Web Application is achievable following these steps: Create the Solution / […]
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I have written a number of articles about my experience creating a Bot #Bot #chatbot. Check them out. Here are some other more recent articles I have written on this subject: Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them Publishing a chatbot using Bot […]
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It is possible to run an Azure WebJob even when the Azure App Service Web App is not running. Figure 1 illustrates a running WebJob while the Web App is not running. Figure 1, running a WebJob when the Web App is stopped Notice that there is only 1 W3WP process shown in the Process […]
Read More →The product known as German Cloud is deprecating. I am moving all articles to a new host. This article is here for historical reasons. Although you can use CLI with the public cloud as well and you can use it to configure many of the Azure features, this article is a bit focused on the […]
Read More →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 →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 →One of the challenges I had, well maybe not a challenge, but it took some hours to think it through, with making my #chatbots #chatbot personality was coding in the ability to recall the last question, last #LUIS Intent or #LUIS Entity so that I could reference it for making better decisions on how to […]
Read More →Well, the fact that you do not need to use Visual Studio or to install the Bot Framework to get a #chatbot or a generic #Bot up and running still applies. See my other posts: Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them Publishing […]
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