Simon Holman

SendGrid Account Setup and Domain Verification with Azure DNS

Leave a Comment / Azure / September 16, 2023

If you’re wanting to send email from your application, then Sendgrid is a fantastic provider that makes it easy (and potentially free) to get up and going. Sendgrid have great documentation at https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/api-getting-started and if you’re a .NET developer, a helpful c# client at https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-csharp Set up your SendGrid account To get an account set …

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Using Redis Caching in your ASP.NET Core web app

Leave a Comment / Technical / June 10, 2023

Video Summary Welcome back! In our previous videos, we covered the installation of Ubuntu on Windows 11 and explored how to install Redis Server on that Ubuntu instance. Today, we’ll delve into a quick Blazor application that demonstrates how to read and write values from our Redis Server. Let’s dive in! Step 1: Running the …

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Install Redis Server on Ubuntu running on Windows 11

Technical / July 22, 2022

In a previous video we looked at how to install Ubuntu Linux using the Windows subsystem for Linux on Windows 11, and now we’re going to look at how to use that built in Linux implementation to install Redis server so we can use it for local development.

Install Ubuntu on Windows 11 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Technical / July 22, 2022

Video Summary Hi folks, welcome back to another video. In this video, we’re going to take a look at installing Ubuntu, a Linux distribution, on Windows 11 using the Windows subsystem for Linux. To start off, the first thing we need to do is install the Windows subsystem for Linux on Windows. To do that, …

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Ignore Azure Function false positive dependency failures using TelemetryInitializers

Technical / June 20, 2020

Let me start by saying that I love Appication Insights. The level of detail it gives you out of the box to monitor and troubleshoot application issues is fantastic. BUT, I loathe false positive error messages, especially dependency failures. If you’ve done any work with Azure storage then you’ve likely come across what I’m talking …

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Handling new user registration with Auth0 and ASP.NET Core 3

1 Comment / Technical / June 20, 2020

When creating a new site that will have users logging into it, you’ll invariably have to choose an identity provider to use. You can use the the inbuilt ASP.NET Core Identity but that has it limitation with repect to authenticating to API’s and other SSO benefits. If you choose a third party identity provider like …

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Errors backing up VM using DPM 2016

3 Comments / Technical / October 14, 2019

Issue: You’ve added a Hyper-V VM onto DPM 2016 and the VM is failing to backup. Replica creation fails with the following error “DPM failed to communicate with DPM Server Name because of a communication error with the protection agent. (ID 53 Details: Not implemented (0x80000001)) Subsequent Consistency check’s fail with the error “An unexpected …

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Error 0x800F0954 installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 10

Technical / September 30, 2019

If you’re experiencing error 0x800F0954 when trying to install .NET 2.0 and 3.5 on Windows 10, and you’re in a domain environment, then a simple temporary registry change should solve your troubles. The error 0x800F0954 typically appears if your machine is trying to connect to it’s locally configured WSUS server to download the required files …

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Importing a CSV file into Azure SQL with Azure Functions

1 Comment / Azure / June 6, 2019

Importing CSV files into Azure SQL is quick and easy using Azure Functions. By utilising LinqToSQL, reading and serialising each line of the CSV into an IEnumerable of objects only takes a few lines of code. Start by creating an Azure Functions project in Visual Studio. I’m using Visual Studio 2019 and have ASP.NET Core …

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Azure Functions not showing all executions under Monitoring

Azure / June 5, 2019

I recently deployed a very simple Azure Functions 2.0 project from Visual Studio 2019 that contained a single timer triggered function. The function had a daily timer trigger and I noticed that there were gaps in the executions in the monitoring tab in the Azure portal.