If you have not read or heard about Microsoft Copilot read more about it here. In summary it is a natural language generative AI application that can respond to questions using your proprietary/private data in sentences and paragraphs instead of links. It does much more than that, read the article if you want to find […]
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A few interesting scenarios I experienced that I wanted to document. Firstly, there is a lot of focus on Visual Studio Code, I’m still working on ramping up there and aligning with and contributing the momentum it is building. I see Visual Studio Code as the place where those who want to get into Open […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Beginning C# and .NET 2021 Edition book, which was co-authored with Jon Reid. The book contains over 800 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great C# programmer. The book is designed around the premise that […]
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If you happen to get this exception on an Azure Function when you have an Azure Storage Queue triggered Azure Function: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. Figure 1, base-64 message required for […]
Read More →I wrote this post “Batching a Service Bus triggered Azure Function” as a prefix to the one here. That post shows how to configure a batch of messages so that they get processed in a single Function Invocation. What is a ‘”Function Invocation” you might ask? Well…, when you setup an Azure Function you bind […]
Read More →As you read here the default setting for AutoComplete is true. When you create a Service Bus triggered Azure Function you install an extension named Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.ServiceBus as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Service Bus Azure Function AutoComplete The NuGet package is here and the source code here. The point of this article is explain […]
Read More →What a title! Being an author of many books, articles and posts, I really think I could write a book about this and what is happening behind the scenes, so don’t think your going to get all the ins and outs from this post. It all comes down to what value you place in the […]
Read More →Updating or reprocessing data is a big deal. For many companies, the intellectual property which exists in their data a lot of times not only drives the business forward, but it is the business. If that data gets corrupted or worse, lost, then the business can come to an end. When you are working with […]
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The expected latency when downloading anything from a server to a client should increase as the size of the file increases. Simply, the bigger the file the longer it takes to download. There is a common step when writing an API that returns a JSON formatted file, which is the deserialization of the data content […]
Read More →This release is a big deal. Basically, all the different versions of .NET like shown in the following bullet list are merged into this one version called .NET 5. .NET Framework .NET Core .NET Standard From .NET 5 all projects can be run cross platform and cross verticals like WPF and ASP.NET. Here are some […]
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