Working with Timer-Triggered Azure Functions in C#

Timer-triggered Azure functions allow you to run a function on a configurable schedule. Unlike HTTP-triggered Azure functions, timing info is stored in an Azure storage account and then passed to the function on execution. As a result, once you add in a timer-triggered function for the first time, there may be some additional steps needed […]

Using Reflection to Find Azure Function Methods

In my last two posts, I’ve been building up the infrastructure needed to write request tests for a C# Azure Functions API: Setting Up an Azure Functions Dependency Injection Context for Request Tests Testing JSON Input/Output in Azure Functions Request Tests My goal is to write tests that are as close to end-to-end as I […]

ASP.NET Core 3.1 JWT Cookie Authentication

JWT Authentication in ASP.NET Core 3.1 is very easy to implement with native support, which allows you to authorize endpoints without any extra dependencies. The middleware handles all the hard work, and all you have to do is add a few lines of code! However, there is one bit of documentation that may not be […]

Testing JSON Input/Output in Azure Functions Request Tests

In my last post, Setting Up an Azure Functions Dependency Injection Context for Request Tests, I started working on request testing an Azure Functions project. The intent is to run through as much production code as possible. Last time, I got the dependency injection context configured with the functions, configuration, and logging. In this post, […]

How to Access Session Data within a Hot Chocolate Resolver

Hot Chocolate is a GraphQL server that can integrate with ASP.NET Core, but it doesn’t participate in the same dependency injection you may be used to. That means it’s not immediately clear how to get at the Session or User objects. Normally, you can access these things through an HttpContext. On a controller, you read […]

How to Call an Async Method Synchronously in C#

The .NET framework has had several different patterns for doing asynchronous work — the Task Parallel Library (TPL), the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern (EAP), and the Asynchronous Programming Model (APM), to name a few. Since they build on each other, if you’re not familiar with all of them, it can be difficult to understand how they […]

Shareable and Customizable SVG Resources in WPF

Having spent most of my time doing web development, when I was asked to add some scalable vector graphics (SVGs) into our WPF application, I thought, “No problem! That will be quick.” Naturally, I was getting ahead of myself. While adding SVGs into our WPF windows wasn’t too painful overall, it took a little more […]

Making Development with PowerShell More Hospitable

As generalists, we can and do work across many platforms and frameworks. But that doesn’t mean that we’re immediately comfortable when we have to pack up and move from the platform we typically call home, where we’ve got things arranged just the way we like it. When moving from a Unix-like platform to Windows, things […]

Soft Deleting in Entity Framework Core

Deleting data in any software system can be a tricky problem. Often, instead of deleting data and permanently losing it, it may be preferable to keep the data, but make it invisible to users.

Reactive Extensions, ReactiveUI, and Whistling Tea Kettles

How does reactive programming work? “It’s all streams,” our program manager explained. “When you update a property in one part of the system, it causes another property in a different part of the system to update, too. It will take a bit to wrap your mind around.” In my head, I pictured properties all over […]

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