I have been doing some testing with Azure Function deployments which requires me to break stuff. That gets me into some real trouble sometimes when all I want is a deployment to work like normal. Here are some other articles I wrote also while doing this. Azure DevOps Visual Studio 2022 add source code Missing […]
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Having worked on Azure for many years now, I have provisioned, deleted, switch, modified so much I sometimes get a bit lost. I was configuring CI/CD for a project and selected Azure Repos, but when I opened the Organization drop-down I did not see the Azure DevOps organization. Figure 1, why is my Azure DevOps […]
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I wrote this article some time ago, Machine Keys on an Azure App Service, machineKey multiple instances Azure, which describes how and why there are no problems running on multiple instances of your App Service Plan, so long as they are in the same region or datacenter. This is because, as part of the App […]
Read More →If you happen to get this exception on an Azure Function when you have an Azure Storage Queue triggered Azure Function: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. Figure 1, base-64 message required for […]
Read More →One of the most common reasons that an Azure Function is not triggered as expected is because the endpoint which notifies the Function to run is misconfigured or blocked for some reason. The scenario I am focusing on here usually occurs during testing or after a deployment. If you are doing or have done neither […]
Read More →I wrote this post “Batching a Service Bus triggered Azure Function” as a prefix to the one here. That post shows how to configure a batch of messages so that they get processed in a single Function Invocation. What is a ‘”Function Invocation” you might ask? Well…, when you setup an Azure Function you bind […]
Read More →I spent some time working with a Service Bus triggered Azure Function and found some interesting scenarios. They are mostly intuitive, and I think when you are presented this, it makes sense. But sometimes I also think that stating the obvious is necessary, too, because sometimes it might not be so obvious to everyone, myself […]
Read More →As you read here the default setting for AutoComplete is true. When you create a Service Bus triggered Azure Function you install an extension named Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.ServiceBus as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Service Bus Azure Function AutoComplete The NuGet package is here and the source code here. The point of this article is explain […]
Read More →What a title! Being an author of many books, articles and posts, I really think I could write a book about this and what is happening behind the scenes, so don’t think your going to get all the ins and outs from this post. It all comes down to what value you place in the […]
Read More →I remember the first time I converted the text in a Word document to Wingdings / dingbat font. I thought I had come up with a secret code that I could share with my made Zork co-adventurers which described avoidance techniques of evil elvish wizard masters. No one can forget about the hidden cave in […]
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