There are a few other resources about this here and here, but as experiences and changes happen, documenting and sharing different perspectives help move projects and people forward. Additionally, there is no better way to learn than by doing and no better way to remember than by documenting or writing it down. Here is an […]
Read More →Create an IoT Device Using the Gadgeteer with Azure Blob Storage
Please have a read of my article I wrote about an IoT device project I created. It was published in this month’s MSDN Magazine. Figure 1, MSDN Magazine Here is a picture of the actual Gadgeteer device. Figure 2, IoT Device
Read More →Application Request Routing (ARR) – self referencing itself 400 or 502.3
IMO the Application Request Routing server should be on a server which is not hosting the webFarm itself. The only reason I can think of wanting to do this is to save costs on resources, both hardware and support. I look at the documentation here and do not see any mention of this kind of […]
Read More →Sending an email from Azure App Service using SendGrid
A common question I get is, “why doesn’t my SMTP email code that I wrote for my other website not work on Azure Web App?” Additionally, I sometimes get this exception sent to me, “System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Transaction failed. The server response was: #.#.# Service unavailable; Client host […] blocked using; Blocked”. I also wrote an article […]
Read More →Files published via FTP are not showing up when I browse to my App Service
Have you ever FTPed some files to your Azure App Service and when you went to browse the site you still saw the old files or the ones you published do not exist? When you have multiple Azure App Services hosted in the same region (I.e. West Europe, East US, etc…), exist in the same […]
Read More →Web.config file is emptied when copying to WebDAV share
When you configure a WebDAV site, it is not only accessible via the NET USE command to map the drive in Windows Explorer, it is also accessible via a browser. Because of this it is not safe to allow users or customers to upload web.config files that would possibly impact the availability, functionality or security […]
Read More →How (I) to setup Azure Active Directory with a Web App
Controlling access to a website is cool. I have mostly used Forms Authentication in the past, hashed the credentials, then stored and retrieved them from a custom database during the login. However, starting now, I think I will use Azure Active Directory (AAD) from now on, as it has so many options, it is very […]
Read More →Upload an image to an Azure Blob container using the Gadgeteer (Part 2, source download)
If you have not already read the first part of this blog, please check it out Part 1 here. Uploaded the image to the Azure Blob container This…..was…..hard…. The code wasn’t hard, but getting the header formatted into the correct format was a hurdle, using the Micro Framework. It’s actually not possible to use the […]
Read More →Upload an image to an Azure Blob container using the Gadgeteer (Part 1)
I wrote an article here that explained how I got an HTTPS request to work from my Gadgeteer. This was one of the steps I took during the process of achieving my ultimate goal of storing an image, taken from a camera and placing it into an Azure Blob container. Sure, taking a picture and […]
Read More →Using TLS 1.2 with WCF
NOTE: Security is a very serious topic and you should always engage an IT security expert before deploying an application that needs to be secure. This article is intended to share my experience versus being an article to use as a guideline. With all the news about the different vulnerabilities like heartbleed and poodle, developers […]
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