.NET, Azure, and Office dev
Recently I have been getting my teeth into Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and particularly Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates. Initially, I saw these things as potentially large JSON files with a massive schema and something that could consume my time learning, causing me to question if I actually wanted to learn it. Although I am... Continue Reading →
Every second week at OnePlace Solutions, our very enthusiastic marketing manager tells everyone in the company to update their email signature. Typically it is just changing the image below our name to show what event we are at next, or highlighting a particular product or feature recently worked on. The image is also hyperlinked to... Continue Reading →
Recently when using the HTTPWebRequest class to stream a file up to a SharePoint Online Document Library, I was consistently coming across the following issue: System.NotSupportedException: The stream does not support concurrent IO read or write operations. What was really annoying about that message is, I was not doing any concurrent operations but passing blocks of... Continue Reading →
Creating an angular app from scratch is annoying and time consuming. The easiest option is to use the Angular CLI to create a new app and its components; this gets you up and running very quickly. What I am talking about below is how to add the LaunchDarkly JavaScript library to an Angular CLI application,... Continue Reading →
A while back I noticed a VSTS add-in for sending messages to Slack from a VSTS Build or Release process. This was a great idea and thought that mentioned that it would be great to have an equivalent for Microsoft Teams, to which the response was: Microsoft has already created Microsoft Teams integration to VSTS,... Continue Reading →
In an effort to get more people learning their cloud platform, Microsoft have announced a series of new courses on various areas of Azure, as well as discounted MCP exams; and what you get is pretty awesome. I have put some links at the bottom of this but you can see it in more detail... Continue Reading →
When looking into the capabilities of the Application Insights REST API, I came across the following error returned when attempting to get a list of events. { "error": { "message": "Rate limit is exceeded", "code": "ThrottledError", "innererror": { "code": "ThrottledError", "message": "Rate limit of 0 per day is... Continue Reading →
Whilst going on my journey to complete Microsoft Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions I have found a whole bunch of supportive resources to help me through. I thought it beneficial to lay them out here for anyone who needs them. Seeing as how the objective domain of the exam has changed, some of the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft recently changed the objectives of course 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, this is unsurprising as Azure itself is so rapidly evolving the exam requirements can get out of date very quickly. Changes have also been put through to 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (which is the equivilent course for the IT Pro) and 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure... Continue Reading →
