Json Schema Validation using NJsonSchema
Json (JavaScript Object Notation ) is a lightweight, self-describing markup, which has become a universal notation for data exchange. Json is now everywhere ...
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csharp
Akka.Net - Create actor if not exists
If you’d have an actorsystem within an web application, you would have faced the problem of creating an actor with a unique id. Since web is by default state...
Azure DocumentDb: long and DateTime datatype
One good thing i liked about Service Fabric is the actor systems, which led me a Java port of Akka/Scala called Akka.Net. You must have a look at it, actors ...
Service fabric deployment–Timeout issue
Azure service fabric deployment has loads of issues, whether you are trying to deploy using Visual studio or PowerShell one common error you would hit (esp. ...
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Application
Once an application is deployed to a service fabric cluster, you have two options to deploy your existing code.
Partitioning and retrieving all the actors in service fabric
A Reliable actor service is partitioned across the service fabric cluster. Partitioning in the context of service fabric is process of determining the partic...
Creating a Console Application using Visual Studio Code and DotNetCore
Visual Studio code is a simple code editor from Microsoft which is multi-platform, light weight and supports multiple languages such as NodeJs, C#, Python et...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
Event Sourcing in .Net
“The fundamental idea of Event Sourcing is that of ensuring every change to the state of an application is captured in an event object, and that these eve...
LINQ - Generic Sort
We faced a scenario where we had a dataset (EF Linq query) which needs to be sorted based on the user selection (user was given the selection option with the...
Performance Tuning for ASP.Net applications
What I have noticed in most of the projects that I have been part of is that the Performance is considered as a least priority feature. Well its definitely n...
Random Number Generator
.Net has a very useful class called “Random” which generates a random number between a range. You can read about the Random class here.
Singleton vs Static Class in C#
Singleton pattern is the first pattern one would learn in the GOF patterns. It simply states that only one instance of the class should be created and no mor...
Custom ASP.Net MVC4 Forms Authentication using TableStorage
As part of MVC4 Microsoft released new authentication provider(WebMatrix.WebData.ExtendedMembershipProvider) support open authentication and new entity frame...
Unit Testing Cloud Storage (Tables and Blobs)
“Without valid unit tests any code that’s written has no value as its not verifiable. And if your code isn’t testable (unit) there is a major design flaw ...
Adapter Pattern
As the name itself suggests “Adapter” pattern allows an interface to ‘adapt’ to another interface. Similar to the universal adapter we all carry when we go o...
Keyword ‘internal’ in C#
“Internal” in C# is used to make the members /methods /classes to be accessible only within that assembly.
SOLID principles of OOAD : Crash Course
The SOLID principles is the basic set of guidelines for any working software design. Its an acronym for 5 rules each represented by a letter in word solid (g...
Events Vs Delegates
You probably would have heard each interviewer asking this question to you in each and every interview you would have attended. I have asked it many million ...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern Part -2
In my previous blog, i mentioned the basics and the usage of the repository pattern with the TableStorage (only CRUD operations without the ‘R’ reading and q...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern - Part 1
Repository Pattern Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. -by Edward Hieatt a...
TableEntity and TableStorage
In the previous blog we just went through with the advantages of using TableStorage, in this one we would consider the most important Class to be used to sav...
Debugging Windows service using Visual Studio
Few of the methods to debug a windows service project are
Dynamic Web Controls using ASP.Net
There are many scenarios where one would have to create dynamic controls based on the logged in user, request etc. Main challenges with the dynamic controls ...
Adding and reading custom sections in web.config
There are many scenarios where the programmer would need to add “custom data” in the configuration file other than the connection strings.
.Net Internals
I have been building applications on .Net platforms for about 5 years now and dint understand how it actually happens underneath in the CLR, curse Microsoft ...
One more .Net 4.0 Gem - Lazy<T>
There are scenarios when we initialize innumerable objects into the .Net memory before the user code has even used them.
Optional Parameters in C# 4.0
One of the article in Visual Studio Magazine, 5 Traps to Avoid in C# mentions the pitfalls of using “Optional Parameters”
State Pattern
When we need to implement a state diagram, the first thing we would look to implement is a switch case or a multiple if else statement. This kind of implemen...
Template Pattern
In this pattern an abstract class contains a template method which provides a skeleton for the algorithm, one or more steps of the algorithm are made virtual...
Linq to CSV
Its very common to import data from a csv file (flat file) into RDBMS or any such destination. When someone calls it a CSV file it need not be just a comma s...
Decorator Pattern
Decorator pattern provides a way of attaching a new state and behaviour to the existing objects. Key implementation point for a “Decorator” is that it contai...
Streaming tweets at real time using .Net
Twitter has exposed a new set of APIs to stream the tweets from the users worldwide just as we stream a video from any website. This can be used from an appl...
Chain of Responsibility pattern (CoR)
Recently my colleague enlightened us about a pattern which can be used to hop the inheritance hierarchy.
Abstract Factory – Design Pattern
In Abstract factory method there are 4 types of players Abstract Factory – Which is understood by the client and contains a function to create a abstract...
cloud
Must have VSCode extensions for Cloud Developers
Visual studio code is the most preferred IDE amongst the frontend developers, its opensource and supports a wide variety of plugins. In this blog I will list...
Google Certified Cloud Architect Professional
I recently cleared the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect exam and hereby I am sharing the list of study materials and the concepts of the GCP tha...
Executing scripts in Terraform template
What is Terraform?
The MAPA - Azure Champ
I have been given Azure Champ status by The-MAPA. What is THE-MAPA MAPA, an acronym for Microsoft Association of Practising Architects, is a global communit...
Restricting Azure webapp accessibility via an Application Gateway
Azure app service provides a publicly accessible endpoint for the application you deploy in it. One can restrict the access by configuring an Isolated tier a...
Retry logic for Azure Functions with Queue Trigger
Azure functions with Storage Queue trigger has a built in retry logic based on the dequeue count of the message in the queue. You can configure the frequency...
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
Purging logs from Azure AppInsights
Azure Application Insights is a powerful logging/monitoring service provided by Azure. It can be used to live-stream your application logs, analyze the perfo...
AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification
I completed AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam successfully, which earned me Azure Solution Architect Expert certification.
Deploying Jekyll Websites on Azure Blob Storage
Azure Storage Accounts (GPV2 sku), allows users to host static websites using the blob storage. This feature was recently GA’ed. Jekyll is a static website g...
AZ-300 Azure Architect Technologies Certification
I took AZ-300 exam today and cleared it 
, this was my first-ever official certification ever. Not that I didn’t value them earlier, was never motivat...
Azure Table Storage performance
Azure table storage is one of the cheapest No-SQL (Key value store) datastore amongst other services. Table storage can be used for multiple scenarios such a...
Azure CLI Alias extensions
Azure CLI is a powerful cross-platform command line tool for managing Azure resources, this has become my go-to command line utility for doing so. It’s writt...
Arm templates–Best practices and my learnings
I have been lately working on Infrastructure as Code project to deploy reference architectures on Microsoft Azure, which provided me with an opportunity to d...
Azure Site Recovery–Replicating existing VMs using ARM Templates
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service contributes for the backup and disaster recovery service. It provides features like backup service and disaster recovery se...
Accessing Certificates in an Azure App Service
There are number of reasons one would want to load a certificate (*.pfx, *.p12) with private key, mine was to sign a JWT token. Requirement was to sign JWT w...
Azure DocumentDb: long and DateTime datatype
One good thing i liked about Service Fabric is the actor systems, which led me a Java port of Akka/Scala called Akka.Net. You must have a look at it, actors ...
Service fabric deployment–Timeout issue
Azure service fabric deployment has loads of issues, whether you are trying to deploy using Visual studio or PowerShell one common error you would hit (esp. ...
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Application
Once an application is deployed to a service fabric cluster, you have two options to deploy your existing code.
Partitioning and retrieving all the actors in service fabric
A Reliable actor service is partitioned across the service fabric cluster. Partitioning in the context of service fabric is process of determining the partic...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Accessing npm packages on a private server
Proget is a universal package manager used to deploy and access private code packages within a company or publicly outside. It is a very useful deployment to...
Using postman to test Apis which use Azure Active Directory for Authentication
Postman is arguably the best tool for developers to test/debug their APIs. If you haven’t heard about it or used it I recommend to go download it ASAP.
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
Unit Testing Cloud Storage (Tables and Blobs)
“Without valid unit tests any code that’s written has no value as its not verifiable. And if your code isn’t testable (unit) there is a major design flaw ...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern Part -2
In my previous blog, i mentioned the basics and the usage of the repository pattern with the TableStorage (only CRUD operations without the ‘R’ reading and q...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern - Part 1
Repository Pattern Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. -by Edward Hieatt a...
TableEntity and TableStorage
In the previous blog we just went through with the advantages of using TableStorage, in this one we would consider the most important Class to be used to sav...
Windows Azure Table Storage
Windows Azure Storage account provides access to Blob, Queue and Table Storage services. By default we get up to 100 TB storage (all 3 types of storage inclu...
azure
Must have VSCode extensions for Cloud Developers
Visual studio code is the most preferred IDE amongst the frontend developers, its opensource and supports a wide variety of plugins. In this blog I will list...
The MAPA - Azure Champ
I have been given Azure Champ status by The-MAPA. What is THE-MAPA MAPA, an acronym for Microsoft Association of Practising Architects, is a global communit...
Restricting Azure webapp accessibility via an Application Gateway
Azure app service provides a publicly accessible endpoint for the application you deploy in it. One can restrict the access by configuring an Isolated tier a...
Retry logic for Azure Functions with Queue Trigger
Azure functions with Storage Queue trigger has a built in retry logic based on the dequeue count of the message in the queue. You can configure the frequency...
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
Purging logs from Azure AppInsights
Azure Application Insights is a powerful logging/monitoring service provided by Azure. It can be used to live-stream your application logs, analyze the perfo...
AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification
I completed AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam successfully, which earned me Azure Solution Architect Expert certification.
Deploying Jekyll Websites on Azure Blob Storage
Azure Storage Accounts (GPV2 sku), allows users to host static websites using the blob storage. This feature was recently GA’ed. Jekyll is a static website g...
AZ-300 Azure Architect Technologies Certification
I took AZ-300 exam today and cleared it , this was my first-ever official certification ever. Not that I didn’t value them earlier, was never motivat...
Azure Table Storage performance
Azure table storage is one of the cheapest No-SQL (Key value store) datastore amongst other services. Table storage can be used for multiple scenarios such a...
Azure CLI Alias extensions
Azure CLI is a powerful cross-platform command line tool for managing Azure resources, this has become my go-to command line utility for doing so. It’s writt...
Arm templates–Best practices and my learnings
I have been lately working on Infrastructure as Code project to deploy reference architectures on Microsoft Azure, which provided me with an opportunity to d...
Azure Site Recovery–Replicating existing VMs using ARM Templates
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service contributes for the backup and disaster recovery service. It provides features like backup service and disaster recovery se...
Accessing Certificates in an Azure App Service
There are number of reasons one would want to load a certificate (*.pfx, *.p12) with private key, mine was to sign a JWT token. Requirement was to sign JWT w...
Azure DocumentDb: long and DateTime datatype
One good thing i liked about Service Fabric is the actor systems, which led me a Java port of Akka/Scala called Akka.Net. You must have a look at it, actors ...
Service fabric deployment–Timeout issue
Azure service fabric deployment has loads of issues, whether you are trying to deploy using Visual studio or PowerShell one common error you would hit (esp. ...
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Application
Once an application is deployed to a service fabric cluster, you have two options to deploy your existing code.
Partitioning and retrieving all the actors in service fabric
A Reliable actor service is partitioned across the service fabric cluster. Partitioning in the context of service fabric is process of determining the partic...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Accessing npm packages on a private server
Proget is a universal package manager used to deploy and access private code packages within a company or publicly outside. It is a very useful deployment to...
Using postman to test Apis which use Azure Active Directory for Authentication
Postman is arguably the best tool for developers to test/debug their APIs. If you haven’t heard about it or used it I recommend to go download it ASAP.
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
Unit Testing Cloud Storage (Tables and Blobs)
“Without valid unit tests any code that’s written has no value as its not verifiable. And if your code isn’t testable (unit) there is a major design flaw ...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern Part -2
In my previous blog, i mentioned the basics and the usage of the repository pattern with the TableStorage (only CRUD operations without the ‘R’ reading and q...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern - Part 1
Repository Pattern Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. -by Edward Hieatt a...
TableEntity and TableStorage
In the previous blog we just went through with the advantages of using TableStorage, in this one we would consider the most important Class to be used to sav...
Windows Azure Table Storage
Windows Azure Storage account provides access to Blob, Queue and Table Storage services. By default we get up to 100 TB storage (all 3 types of storage inclu...
.net
Json Schema Validation using NJsonSchema
Json (JavaScript Object Notation ) is a lightweight, self-describing markup, which has become a universal notation for data exchange. Json is now everywhere ...
Akka.Net - Create actor if not exists
If you’d have an actorsystem within an web application, you would have faced the problem of creating an actor with a unique id. Since web is by default state...
Azure DocumentDb: long and DateTime datatype
One good thing i liked about Service Fabric is the actor systems, which led me a Java port of Akka/Scala called Akka.Net. You must have a look at it, actors ...
Service fabric deployment–Timeout issue
Azure service fabric deployment has loads of issues, whether you are trying to deploy using Visual studio or PowerShell one common error you would hit (esp. ...
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Application
Once an application is deployed to a service fabric cluster, you have two options to deploy your existing code.
Partitioning and retrieving all the actors in service fabric
A Reliable actor service is partitioned across the service fabric cluster. Partitioning in the context of service fabric is process of determining the partic...
Creating a Console Application using Visual Studio Code and DotNetCore
Visual Studio code is a simple code editor from Microsoft which is multi-platform, light weight and supports multiple languages such as NodeJs, C#, Python et...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
Performance Tuning for ASP.Net applications
What I have noticed in most of the projects that I have been part of is that the Performance is considered as a least priority feature. Well its definitely n...
Singleton vs Static Class in C#
Singleton pattern is the first pattern one would learn in the GOF patterns. It simply states that only one instance of the class should be created and no mor...
Custom ASP.Net MVC4 Forms Authentication using TableStorage
As part of MVC4 Microsoft released new authentication provider(WebMatrix.WebData.ExtendedMembershipProvider) support open authentication and new entity frame...
Unit Testing Cloud Storage (Tables and Blobs)
“Without valid unit tests any code that’s written has no value as its not verifiable. And if your code isn’t testable (unit) there is a major design flaw ...
Keyword ‘internal’ in C#
“Internal” in C# is used to make the members /methods /classes to be accessible only within that assembly.
Events Vs Delegates
You probably would have heard each interviewer asking this question to you in each and every interview you would have attended. I have asked it many million ...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern Part -2
In my previous blog, i mentioned the basics and the usage of the repository pattern with the TableStorage (only CRUD operations without the ‘R’ reading and q...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern - Part 1
Repository Pattern Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. -by Edward Hieatt a...
TableEntity and TableStorage
In the previous blog we just went through with the advantages of using TableStorage, in this one we would consider the most important Class to be used to sav...
Debugging Windows service using Visual Studio
Few of the methods to debug a windows service project are
Dynamic Web Controls using ASP.Net
There are many scenarios where one would have to create dynamic controls based on the logged in user, request etc. Main challenges with the dynamic controls ...
Adding and reading custom sections in web.config
There are many scenarios where the programmer would need to add “custom data” in the configuration file other than the connection strings.
Logging into different files from single process - Log4Net
Logging is a very important feature that one would desire for a data/performance intensive applications. Logging helps us in debugging, giving vital and exte...
.Net Internals
I have been building applications on .Net platforms for about 5 years now and dint understand how it actually happens underneath in the CLR, curse Microsoft ...
One more .Net 4.0 Gem - Lazy<T>
There are scenarios when we initialize innumerable objects into the .Net memory before the user code has even used them.
Optional Parameters in C# 4.0
One of the article in Visual Studio Magazine, 5 Traps to Avoid in C# mentions the pitfalls of using “Optional Parameters”
Inversion of Control
Inversion of control is a pattern where the creating and life time of the objects is passed from the client to another layer.
tools
Moving docker contents to another drive
Docker desktop is now available with WSL integration, provided that you are on windows 10 1909 build, it brings in a lot of performance improvements to the e...
Moving from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
I have been an afficianado of whatever Microsoft builds, since I was introduced to the computers. I have used windows on personal computer since win’98 days,...
Beautify terminals using Oh-My-Posh and other tools
I have been using Conemu as my goto terminal, i.e. till Micrsoft released the beta version of Windows Terminal. Windows terminal has a tabbed window which al...
Must have VSCode extensions for Cloud Developers
Visual studio code is the most preferred IDE amongst the frontend developers, its opensource and supports a wide variety of plugins. In this blog I will list...
Cascadia Code!! A beautiful font for developers
Microsoft recently shipped their new monospaced font called ‘Cascadia’, and this is the same font that MS ships with its new Terminal. If you haven’t used th...
Azure CLI Alias extensions
Azure CLI is a powerful cross-platform command line tool for managing Azure resources, this has become my go-to command line utility for doing so. It’s writt...
Appveyor– Free continuos integration tool for .Net Project
As I was creating Akka.Persistence.DocumentDb project I started looking for some CI tools available for open source projects for free. I came across this won...
Accessing npm packages on a private server
Proget is a universal package manager used to deploy and access private code packages within a company or publicly outside. It is a very useful deployment to...
Using postman to test Apis which use Azure Active Directory for Authentication
Postman is arguably the best tool for developers to test/debug their APIs. If you haven’t heard about it or used it I recommend to go download it ASAP.
Introduction to OData
“OData is a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like ...
Google Chrome for web development
Html developers might already know that chrome is the best for web-development. If you don’t then check it out.
Windows Live 2011: Gateway to Social Networking heaven
The latest version of Live Essentials 2011 is out and it’s a single gateway to social networking. They have integrated MSN messenger with Facebook, LinkedIn ...
Windows phone 7 Tools Available
Finally, much hyped windows phone 7 OS mobile phones is available to the market. So is the RTMed version of the windows phone developer tools.
Logging into different files from single process - Log4Net
Logging is a very important feature that one would desire for a data/performance intensive applications. Logging helps us in debugging, giving vital and exte...
IE 9 Beta is out
Much awaited IE 9 Beta version is out for Download .
Useful Visual Studio Extensions for free
Visual Studio 2010 has hit the market, with its new look and the user experience its the best IDE Microsoft has brought out to the market. Add to the fact th...
Streaming tweets at real time using .Net
Twitter has exposed a new set of APIs to stream the tweets from the users worldwide just as we stream a video from any website. This can be used from an appl...
designpatterns
Adapter Pattern
As the name itself suggests “Adapter” pattern allows an interface to ‘adapt’ to another interface. Similar to the universal adapter we all carry when we go o...
SOLID principles of OOAD : Crash Course
The SOLID principles is the basic set of guidelines for any working software design. Its an acronym for 5 rules each represented by a letter in word solid (g...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern Part -2
In my previous blog, i mentioned the basics and the usage of the repository pattern with the TableStorage (only CRUD operations without the ‘R’ reading and q...
Programming Azure TableStorage : Repository Pattern - Part 1
Repository Pattern Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers using a collection-like interface for accessing domain objects. -by Edward Hieatt a...
State Pattern
When we need to implement a state diagram, the first thing we would look to implement is a switch case or a multiple if else statement. This kind of implemen...
Template Pattern
In this pattern an abstract class contains a template method which provides a skeleton for the algorithm, one or more steps of the algorithm are made virtual...
Inversion of Control
Inversion of control is a pattern where the creating and life time of the objects is passed from the client to another layer.
Decorator Pattern
Decorator pattern provides a way of attaching a new state and behaviour to the existing objects. Key implementation point for a “Decorator” is that it contai...
Chain of Responsibility pattern (CoR)
Recently my colleague enlightened us about a pattern which can be used to hop the inheritance hierarchy.
Abstract Factory – Design Pattern
In Abstract factory method there are 4 types of players Abstract Factory – Which is understood by the client and contains a function to create a abstract...
howto
Purging logs from Azure AppInsights
Azure Application Insights is a powerful logging/monitoring service provided by Azure. It can be used to live-stream your application logs, analyze the perfo...
Creating a Console Application using Visual Studio Code and DotNetCore
Visual Studio code is a simple code editor from Microsoft which is multi-platform, light weight and supports multiple languages such as NodeJs, C#, Python et...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
Debugging Windows service using Visual Studio
Few of the methods to debug a windows service project are
SQL: How to find duplicate records in a single query
Problem: Need a dataset containing all the duplicate records based on a particular criteria selected by the user.
Logging into different files from single process - Log4Net
Logging is a very important feature that one would desire for a data/performance intensive applications. Logging helps us in debugging, giving vital and exte...
SQL: How to get the primary key of a record after the insert without using Select
Question: How to fetch the automatically incremented primary key after an insert without selecting that particular column?
SQL: How to get youngest and oldest from a person table
Problem: To fetch the youngest and oldest of the family based on the last name from the “Person” table whose design is as given below in a single query
Streaming tweets at real time using .Net
Twitter has exposed a new set of APIs to stream the tweets from the users worldwide just as we stream a video from any website. This can be used from an appl...
software
Appveyor– Free continuos integration tool for .Net Project
As I was creating Akka.Persistence.DocumentDb project I started looking for some CI tools available for open source projects for free. I came across this won...
Introduction to OData
“OData is a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like ...
Google Chrome for web development
Html developers might already know that chrome is the best for web-development. If you don’t then check it out.
Windows Live 2011: Gateway to Social Networking heaven
The latest version of Live Essentials 2011 is out and it’s a single gateway to social networking. They have integrated MSN messenger with Facebook, LinkedIn ...
Windows phone 7 Tools Available
Finally, much hyped windows phone 7 OS mobile phones is available to the market. So is the RTMed version of the windows phone developer tools.
IE 9 Beta is out
Much awaited IE 9 Beta version is out for Download .
servicefabric
Service fabric deployment–Timeout issue
Azure service fabric deployment has loads of issues, whether you are trying to deploy using Visual studio or PowerShell one common error you would hit (esp. ...
Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Application
Once an application is deployed to a service fabric cluster, you have two options to deploy your existing code.
Partitioning and retrieving all the actors in service fabric
A Reliable actor service is partitioned across the service fabric cluster. Partitioning in the context of service fabric is process of determining the partic...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
Opening ports on a deployed ServiceFabric cluster
Service fabric is a Mircoservices platform by Microsoft. It can be run on private cluster running on Windows or Linux , It can also be hosted on Azure.
web
Performance Tuning for ASP.Net applications
What I have noticed in most of the projects that I have been part of is that the Performance is considered as a least priority feature. Well its definitely n...
Custom ASP.Net MVC4 Forms Authentication using TableStorage
As part of MVC4 Microsoft released new authentication provider(WebMatrix.WebData.ExtendedMembershipProvider) support open authentication and new entity frame...
Dynamic Web Controls using ASP.Net
There are many scenarios where one would have to create dynamic controls based on the logged in user, request etc. Main challenges with the dynamic controls ...
Adding and reading custom sections in web.config
There are many scenarios where the programmer would need to add “custom data” in the configuration file other than the connection strings.
asp.net
Performance Tuning for ASP.Net applications
What I have noticed in most of the projects that I have been part of is that the Performance is considered as a least priority feature. Well its definitely n...
Custom ASP.Net MVC4 Forms Authentication using TableStorage
As part of MVC4 Microsoft released new authentication provider(WebMatrix.WebData.ExtendedMembershipProvider) support open authentication and new entity frame...
Dynamic Web Controls using ASP.Net
There are many scenarios where one would have to create dynamic controls based on the logged in user, request etc. Main challenges with the dynamic controls ...
Adding and reading custom sections in web.config
There are many scenarios where the programmer would need to add “custom data” in the configuration file other than the connection strings.
certifications
Google Certified Cloud Architect Professional
I recently cleared the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect exam and hereby I am sharing the list of study materials and the concepts of the GCP tha...
The MAPA - Azure Champ
I have been given Azure Champ status by The-MAPA. What is THE-MAPA MAPA, an acronym for Microsoft Association of Practising Architects, is a global communit...
AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification
I completed AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam successfully, which earned me Azure Solution Architect Expert certification.
AZ-300 Azure Architect Technologies Certification
I took AZ-300 exam today and cleared it , this was my first-ever official certification ever. Not that I didn’t value them earlier, was never motivat...
linq
LINQ - Generic Sort
We faced a scenario where we had a dataset (EF Linq query) which needs to be sorted based on the user selection (user was given the selection option with the...
Random Number Generator
.Net has a very useful class called “Random” which generates a random number between a range. You can read about the Random class here.
Linq to CSV
Its very common to import data from a csv file (flat file) into RDBMS or any such destination. When someone calls it a CSV file it need not be just a comma s...
sql
SQL: How to find duplicate records in a single query
Problem: Need a dataset containing all the duplicate records based on a particular criteria selected by the user.
SQL: How to get the primary key of a record after the insert without using Select
Question: How to fetch the automatically incremented primary key after an insert without selecting that particular column?
SQL: How to get youngest and oldest from a person table
Problem: To fetch the youngest and oldest of the family based on the last name from the “Person” table whose design is as given below in a single query
azureactivedirectory
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
azure resource manager
Deploying ARM Template and parsing the outputs in a .Net Application
There are scenarios where one might have to provision a Azure resource on the fly and use the connection string or SAS key or credentials of those deployed r...
ARM Templates to provision Azure Resources
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are quite handy when it comes to automating the provisioning of azure resources. Almost 99% of the azure resources can...
Resource Manager And Azure Active Directory using .Net Core
I just published a github repository containing .Net core web application to authenticate Azure Resource Manager APIs and gain access to resources in other s...
appservice
Restricting Azure webapp accessibility via an Application Gateway
Azure app service provides a publicly accessible endpoint for the application you deploy in it. One can restrict the access by configuring an Isolated tier a...
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
Accessing Certificates in an Azure App Service
There are number of reasons one would want to load a certificate (*.pfx, *.p12) with private key, mine was to sign a JWT token. Requirement was to sign JWT w...
containers
Moving docker contents to another drive
Docker desktop is now available with WSL integration, provided that you are on windows 10 1909 build, it brings in a lot of performance improvements to the e...
Kubernetes TLS secrets watcher
We have been managing a multi-tenant kuberentes cluster with more than 100 nodes, hosting multiple ingress services exposed to the public domain. I will cove...
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
agile
Agile - Reasons for failure
Agile (SCRUM) is a very good process for software development, not only i say it but most of the companies worldwide say it and have adopted it. But everythi...
Agile: Failure scenarios
I just was part of a team which completed one of the most complex products at least I had worked in my short career of 5 years as a software developer. Brief...
Designpatterns
Event Sourcing in .Net
“The fundamental idea of Event Sourcing is that of ensuring every change to the state of an application is captured in an event object, and that these eve...
Singleton vs Static Class in C#
Singleton pattern is the first pattern one would learn in the GOF patterns. It simply states that only one instance of the class should be created and no mor...
api
Accessing npm packages on a private server
Proget is a universal package manager used to deploy and access private code packages within a company or publicly outside. It is a very useful deployment to...
Using postman to test Apis which use Azure Active Directory for Authentication
Postman is arguably the best tool for developers to test/debug their APIs. If you haven’t heard about it or used it I recommend to go download it ASAP.
postman
Accessing npm packages on a private server
Proget is a universal package manager used to deploy and access private code packages within a company or publicly outside. It is a very useful deployment to...
Using postman to test Apis which use Azure Active Directory for Authentication
Postman is arguably the best tool for developers to test/debug their APIs. If you haven’t heard about it or used it I recommend to go download it ASAP.
unittest
Creating a Console Application using Visual Studio Code and DotNetCore
Visual Studio code is a simple code editor from Microsoft which is multi-platform, light weight and supports multiple languages such as NodeJs, C#, Python et...
Unit testing Service Fabric Actor
Once you create a Service Fabric Application and notice the base class “Actor” has no public constructor
jekyll
Deploying Jekyll Websites on Azure Blob Storage
Azure Storage Accounts (GPV2 sku), allows users to host static websites using the blob storage. This feature was recently GA’ed. Jekyll is a static website g...
Wordpress to Jekyll
I have been blogging on WordPress platform since 2010 (even though I wish to write more), I had always found it very difficult to share code, considering mos...
functions
Retry logic for Azure Functions with Queue Trigger
Azure functions with Storage Queue trigger has a built in retry logic based on the dequeue count of the message in the queue. You can configure the frequency...
Azure Table Storage performance
Azure table storage is one of the cheapest No-SQL (Key value store) datastore amongst other services. Table storage can be used for multiple scenarios such a...
appinsights
Purging logs from Azure AppInsights
Azure Application Insights is a powerful logging/monitoring service provided by Azure. It can be used to live-stream your application logs, analyze the perfo...
Azure Table Storage performance
Azure table storage is one of the cheapest No-SQL (Key value store) datastore amongst other services. Table storage can be used for multiple scenarios such a...
docker
Moving docker contents to another drive
Docker desktop is now available with WSL integration, provided that you are on windows 10 1909 build, it brings in a lot of performance improvements to the e...
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
gcp
Google Certified Cloud Architect Professional
I recently cleared the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect exam and hereby I am sharing the list of study materials and the concepts of the GCP tha...
Executing scripts in Terraform template
What is Terraform?
vscode
Beautify terminals using Oh-My-Posh and other tools
I have been using Conemu as my goto terminal, i.e. till Micrsoft released the beta version of Windows Terminal. Windows terminal has a tabbed window which al...
Must have VSCode extensions for Cloud Developers
Visual studio code is the most preferred IDE amongst the frontend developers, its opensource and supports a wide variety of plugins. In this blog I will list...
windows
Moving from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
I have been an afficianado of whatever Microsoft builds, since I was introduced to the computers. I have used windows on personal computer since win’98 days,...
Beautify terminals using Oh-My-Posh and other tools
I have been using Conemu as my goto terminal, i.e. till Micrsoft released the beta version of Windows Terminal. Windows terminal has a tabbed window which al...
visualstudio
Useful Visual Studio Extensions for free
Visual Studio 2010 has hit the market, with its new look and the user experience its the best IDE Microsoft has brought out to the market. Add to the fact th...
ie
IE 9 Beta is out
Much awaited IE 9 Beta version is out for Download .
tech
Logging into different files from single process - Log4Net
Logging is a very important feature that one would desire for a data/performance intensive applications. Logging helps us in debugging, giving vital and exte...
unittesting
Unit Testing Cloud Storage (Tables and Blobs)
“Without valid unit tests any code that’s written has no value as its not verifiable. And if your code isn’t testable (unit) there is a major design flaw ...
sdk
Introduction to OData
“OData is a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs. OData builds on core protocols like HTTP and commonly accepted methodologies like ...
cosmosdb
Azure DocumentDb: long and DateTime datatype
One good thing i liked about Service Fabric is the actor systems, which led me a Java port of Akka/Scala called Akka.Net. You must have a look at it, actors ...
ci-cd
Appveyor– Free continuos integration tool for .Net Project
As I was creating Akka.Persistence.DocumentDb project I started looking for some CI tools available for open source projects for free. I came across this won...
akka.net
Akka.Net - Create actor if not exists
If you’d have an actorsystem within an web application, you would have faced the problem of creating an actor with a unique id. Since web is by default state...
vms
Azure Site Recovery–Replicating existing VMs using ARM Templates
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service contributes for the backup and disaster recovery service. It provides features like backup service and disaster recovery se...
asr
Azure Site Recovery–Replicating existing VMs using ARM Templates
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service contributes for the backup and disaster recovery service. It provides features like backup service and disaster recovery se...
recovery
Azure Site Recovery–Replicating existing VMs using ARM Templates
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service contributes for the backup and disaster recovery service. It provides features like backup service and disaster recovery se...
arm templates
Arm templates–Best practices and my learnings
I have been lately working on Infrastructure as Code project to deploy reference architectures on Microsoft Azure, which provided me with an opportunity to d...
cli
Azure CLI Alias extensions
Azure CLI is a powerful cross-platform command line tool for managing Azure resources, this has become my go-to command line utility for doing so. It’s writt...
github
Wordpress to Jekyll
I have been blogging on WordPress platform since 2010 (even though I wish to write more), I had always found it very difficult to share code, considering mos...
pages
Wordpress to Jekyll
I have been blogging on WordPress platform since 2010 (even though I wish to write more), I had always found it very difficult to share code, considering mos...
wordpress
Wordpress to Jekyll
I have been blogging on WordPress platform since 2010 (even though I wish to write more), I had always found it very difficult to share code, considering mos...
performance
Azure Table Storage performance
Azure table storage is one of the cheapest No-SQL (Key value store) datastore amongst other services. Table storage can be used for multiple scenarios such a...
blogs
Deploying Jekyll Websites on Azure Blob Storage
Azure Storage Accounts (GPV2 sku), allows users to host static websites using the blob storage. This feature was recently GA’ed. Jekyll is a static website g...
blob storage
Deploying Jekyll Websites on Azure Blob Storage
Azure Storage Accounts (GPV2 sku), allows users to host static websites using the blob storage. This feature was recently GA’ed. Jekyll is a static website g...
sonarqube
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
deployment
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
postgres
Deploying Sonarqube Container in Azure
Sonarqube is an open source tool which provides continuous inspection of the code quality. It integrates seamlessly with all the CI/CD tools such as Jenkins,...
json
Json Schema Validation using NJsonSchema
Json (JavaScript Object Notation ) is a lightweight, self-describing markup, which has become a universal notation for data exchange. Json is now everywhere ...
queue
Retry logic for Azure Functions with Queue Trigger
Azure functions with Storage Queue trigger has a built in retry logic based on the dequeue count of the message in the queue. You can configure the frequency...
patterns
Retry logic for Azure Functions with Queue Trigger
Azure functions with Storage Queue trigger has a built in retry logic based on the dequeue count of the message in the queue. You can configure the frequency...
appgateway
Restricting Azure webapp accessibility via an Application Gateway
Azure app service provides a publicly accessible endpoint for the application you deploy in it. One can restrict the access by configuring an Isolated tier a...
mapa
The MAPA - Azure Champ
I have been given Azure Champ status by The-MAPA. What is THE-MAPA MAPA, an acronym for Microsoft Association of Practising Architects, is a global communit...
iac
Executing scripts in Terraform template
What is Terraform?
terraform
Executing scripts in Terraform template
What is Terraform?
fonts
Cascadia Code!! A beautiful font for developers
Microsoft recently shipped their new monospaced font called ‘Cascadia’, and this is the same font that MS ships with its new Terminal. If you haven’t used th...
microsoft
Cascadia Code!! A beautiful font for developers
Microsoft recently shipped their new monospaced font called ‘Cascadia’, and this is the same font that MS ships with its new Terminal. If you haven’t used th...
ubuntu
Moving from Windows 10 to Ubuntu
I have been an afficianado of whatever Microsoft builds, since I was introduced to the computers. I have used windows on personal computer since win’98 days,...
kubernetes
Kubernetes TLS secrets watcher
We have been managing a multi-tenant kuberentes cluster with more than 100 nodes, hosting multiple ingress services exposed to the public domain. I will cove...
secrets
Kubernetes TLS secrets watcher
We have been managing a multi-tenant kuberentes cluster with more than 100 nodes, hosting multiple ingress services exposed to the public domain. I will cove...
tls
Kubernetes TLS secrets watcher
We have been managing a multi-tenant kuberentes cluster with more than 100 nodes, hosting multiple ingress services exposed to the public domain. I will cove...
prometheus
Kubernetes TLS secrets watcher
We have been managing a multi-tenant kuberentes cluster with more than 100 nodes, hosting multiple ingress services exposed to the public domain. I will cove...
socialmedia
Streaming tweets at real time using .Net
1 minute read
Twitter has exposed a new set of APIs to stream the tweets from the users worldwide just as we stream a video from any website. This can be used from an appl...