When you scale to more than a single instance of a Web App, it gets a little complicated to monitor or troubleshoot an issue. The complicated part is trying to find which of the instances are experiencing the problem. In many cases, a majority of the requests complete just fine, but from time to time, […]
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One of the surprises I had when I moved many of my sites from a domain hoster to an Azure Web App was that the platform only provided web services and that I had lost my SMTP services. That meant I was not able to send or receive emails from my private domains. I rushed […]
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I was working on an IoT project where my device was calling a WebAPI. I had two methods, one had the signature shown in Listing 1 and the other in Listing 2. UPDATE 6-JUN-2016, check here for some exception handling tips. Listing 1, GET employees [Route(“api/TC/{custId}”)] public IQueryable<EmployeeDTO> GetEmployees(string custId) { var db = […]
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I watched this Channel9 Video here and decided to reproduce it in writing. The steps required to create this sample HelloWorld WebJob for hosting with a Web App are: Create a Web Site and Console Application Include the Console App into the Web Site Deploy the Web Site to a Web App Execute the WebJob […]
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My first Gadgeteer project I wrote about here used an Ethernet connection. However, this limited the mobility of my device and therefore wanted to configure the device to connect to a Wi-Fi network. I must mention that another coolness factor with this Wi-Fi project was I used the Wi-Fi internet sharing capability on my Microsoft […]
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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 →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 →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 →I have begun my pursuit of the Internet of Things (IoT) via the .NET Micro Framework and a FEZ Spider. I am currently using the following SDKs: .NET MF 4.3 RTM (QFE1) .NET Gadgeteer NETMF and Gadgeteer Package 2014 R3 When I was trying to make a connection to my Azure Blob Storage, I was […]
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NOTE: This solution does not implement paging and requires the retrieval of the entire result set. If your dataset is huge, I wouldn’t go this route. Other options, LIKE %text%, FULL-TEXT search, Lucene.Net…and many others… Check out another of my blogs where I defer the retrieval using a Delayed Action. Again, if you look hard […]
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