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SQL Server database backup to Azure Blob Storage
SQL Server supports exporting data-tier applications (BACPAC). It means that database is packaged to one file with schema and data. It’s not same as SQL Server backups but to backup smaller databases...
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Running ASP.NET Core 5 RC applications on Azure App Service
Although .NET 5 is officially in RC and not yet officially supported on Azure cloud we can still deploy ASP.NET Core web applications built for .NET 5 to Azure App Services. I made my first ASP.NET...
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My fellow MVP Jiří Činčura wrote a nice blog post about hosting ASP.NET Core applications on Azure B-series small virtual machines: Running ASP.NET Core app on Azure B1ls VM (penny pinching). It’s the...
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Accessing restricted blob storage from virtual networks and Azure CDN
I decided to isolate Azure storage account behind this blog due to growing number of attacks against this little nice reading corner. I have anyway Azure CDN service enabled and it is perfect tool to...
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Building ASP.NET Core applications on Visual Studio Codespaces and Visual...
On the search for running development environments on cloud I stumbled upon service calles Visual Studio Codespaces. It’s nice service that moves development and debugging workloads to cloud and it...
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Introducing Azure Static Web App service
During Build 2020 Microsoft announced preview of Azure Static Web App service – app hosting offering for static web applications built on JavaScript. Automatic deployments to production and staging...
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Hosting WordPress behind Azure Front Door
During lockdown I tried out how Azure Front Door works. It is another member of Azure load balancers and traffic routers world but it is global and designed for web applications. My only interest was...
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Updating SQL Azure database using Visual Studio database project and Azure...
Visual Studio database projects have been one of my important tools since Visual Studio 2010. Database projects were not easy to use with build servers ten years ago. Today things are different. It’s...
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Creating storage accounts and blob containers using Azure fluent API-s
Using Azure fluent API-s it is easy to create storage accounts and blob containers. After experimenting with fluent API of Azure storage I found it to be good match for multitenant web applications...
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MSSQL data and log files on Azure blob storage
I discovered lately one killer feature of SQL Server – keeping data and log files on Azure blob storage. There are scenarios where we may want to go with blob storage instead of buying and building up...
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Creating subdomains to Azure DNS from ASP.NET Core
Multitenant wep applications detect current tenant usually by URL checking name of first level folder or subdomain. Usually tenants are defined by subdomain as it is easier to distribute them over data...
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I got back to active SharePoint and CSOM development some months ago and first thing to do was to port bunch of workflows from in-prem SharePoint to cloud. Where I live we don’t usually have any simple...
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Copy production database to staging on Azure DevOps
I’m building build and release pipeline on Azure DevOps for one of my projects. We want to automate testing and deployments to staging environment. At staging environment we want to use copy of...
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Publishing ASP.NET Core 3.0 application as self-contained executable to Azure...
With Visual Studio 2019 we can publish ASP.NET Core 3.0 applications as self-contained executable. It’s specially useful for environments where ASP.NET Core 3.0 is not installed or where we don’t have...
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Generalize file access for ASP.NET Core applications using IFileClient...
Once upon a time I worked out simple file client generalization so my applications can keep files on local machine or somewhere on the cloud without changes in application code. This blog post shows...
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Hosting web application on Azure
Coming to cloud with web application can be scary if it’s the first time you do it. Azure cloud is not anymore about dozen of services – it’s real monster offering more than we are able to know and...
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Create thumbnails using Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Cognitive Services is set of powerful and intelligent cloud services to analyze photos and images. This blog post shows how to create smart thumbnails using Azure cognitive services and ASP.NET...
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Visualize Azure CDN metrics with Grafana
Azure CDN is one of Azure services that doesn’t provide charts and metrics in service overview page. For me these charts are important because they help me to optimize delivery of my blog artifacts....
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Getting started with Jekyll blog hosted on Azure static website
Building fully static web sites and blogs is possible anno domini 2019 and I tried out how it works using Jekyll and Azure services. My goal as a tech guy was keeping things small and automate as much...
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Setting up Azure storage static website for Jekyll
Before setting up Jekyll build and release pipelines on Azure DevOps we need static website service on Azure. It’s special feature of blob storage. This blog post shows how to set up and manage Azure...
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