Introduction In this short post, I explain what are containers and their benefits. To help understand what problems does this container solves in the software industry. What are containers? A software container is a pretty abstract thing and it will be easy if we start with an analogy that is familiar to most of the […]
How to cast int to enum in C#
Introduction In this short post, I show How to cast int to enum in C#. We have used an enumeration type (or enum type) in our day to day programming. Enum is a value type defined by a set of named constants of the underlying integral numeric type. To define an enumeration type, we used […]
Configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Databases
Introduction This post, I show how to configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database. Microsoft Azure SQL Database are great for both predictable and unpredictable workloads. Unpredictability is specially challenging for software as service or called as SaaS Providers. SaaS providers have hundreds or even thousands of customers who then have their own unique mix […]
Implement create, read, update, and delete functionalities using Entity Framework Core
Introduction In this post, I show how to Implement CURD functionality in ASPNETCORE using Entity Framework Core. I have my existing project with bare minimum configuration setup to start and to start with this post demo, I will be using it. To follow along with me for this post, you need to know some basic […]
How to: Create API documentation using OpenAPI & Swagger
Introduction In this post, I show how to create API documentation using OpenAPI & Swagger. This post will help to cover a part of knowledge required to complete Azure AZ-203 certification. To start with Azure AZ-203 certification, take a look at my post EXAM AZ-203: DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT AZURE What is API documentation ? […]
How to: Create an Azure App Service API app
Introduction In this short post, I’m going to cover topic “create an Azure App Service API app”. The details in this post will help to cover a part of knowledge required to complete Azure AZ-203 certification. Getting Started To publish any Web or API application that may have been developed using any programming language, we […]
How to: Create Azure App Service Web Apps
Introduction In this post, I’m going to cover topic “create an Azure App Service Web App”. The details in this post will help to cover a part of knowledge required to complete Azure AZ-203 certification. Let’s focus on the one of the five below topic that is part of skills measured under “Develop Azure Platform […]
Policy and Resource based authorization in ASP NET Core
Introduction In this post, we will see how to implement Policy and Resource based authorization in ASPNETCore. There are instance where we need to validate the incoming data model. We will see how to validate the data model and authorize. In our example, say we have two entities namely, Category and Product. Examples in this […]
Exam AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
Introduction In this post, we will see the skills measured for the Exam AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure and various examples for exam preparation. Note: The content of this exam was updated on November 6, 2019. I have highlighted in bold where the content is updated as of November 6, 2019. This exam retired […]
Configure Azure SQL relational database using vs 2019
Introduction In this post, we will see how to configure the Azure SQL database using vs 2019. This post is a continuation of how to provision a relational database. To read more about how to provision the relational database in the Azure portal, take a look at my post provision and configure relational databases azure […]