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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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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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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.

Implementing ASP.NET Core session with Redis Cache on Azure

2 Comments / Web Development / March 26, 2019

Using Redis cache in Windows Azure to save session state for an ASP.NET Core web app is quick and easy to configure. Create your Redis Cache in Azure Firstly, if you don’t have an Azure account create a Free Azure Trial Account. Once you’re logged into your Azure account, Click the + Create a resource …

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