Getting around CORS issues using the Azure Functions Proxies feature.

Here we learn how to add a clean project task in VS Code for a .Net Core project.

Easy bootstrapping of projects using the .Net Core CLI.

Let’s group our xUnit tests into categories. Honestly, it’ll be easier to find them this way.

Azure Event Grid is a great technology for creating “push-push” asynchronous communication between resources in Azure. One of the benefits of such a “push-push” system is that it allows a consumer of events to remain stateless - no listener is required.

The Azure Portal allows for a fairly easy creation of subscriptions but ideally these subscriptions should be scripted and stored in source control.

How to setup Application Insights logging in any and all classes of an Azure Function.

How do we retrieve a MIME type from a file extension in .Net Core? Let’s find out!

A basic pattern for testing IoC container setup in C#.

Here we looking at solving a few gotchas when working with enumerables of C# ’s dynamic type.

Here we learn how to debug Azure Functions Event Grid triggers locally using Visual Studio and Postman.

In addition to coding and writing this blog, I occasionally play guitar. For learning songs, I often use YouTube. Often there is the need to repeat passages, which can be difficult to do navigating to the same section over and over again.

We’ve all been there. We’ve got two (or more) classes with that have a need for the same functionality that share no base class. The project manager is asking when this will all be done, so we just create a method in one class and copy it over to the other. Then we find that another class has a need for the same functionality. So we copy it over to there as well…

I always forget the syntax when verifying that async methods throw a particular exception with FluentAssertions. This post is to help me (and hopefully others) quickly find the solution to this slightly un-intuitive syntax.