Tag: Azure

This tag contains all of my blog posts that directly concern Microsoft Azure.

But what is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft themselves describe it like this:

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/overview/what-is-azure)

Marketing talk aside, Azure offers developers a way to get going fast, and concentrate on the functionality and added value instead of worrying about the infrastructure. Well, worrying about most of it anyway.

For IT Pros, it offers a new can of worms, a huge set of tools to squash those worms, and opportunities to offer a lot of value to their organizations.

For business people, Azure offers big potential savings. And the blockchain. And machine learning. And IoT, of course. It’s the hybrid cloud solution for your modern, blockchain-backed, machine learning -powered workloads running on the intelligent edge.

Does that sound good to you? No? Well, scratch the last paragraph – it’s true, but not as bad as it sounds!

Azure Functions SDK 2.0 settings in accessed in C# code

How to get application settings for your Azure Function App using C#?

This article explains how you can access an Azure Function’s Application/Environment settings/variables from your C# code. Different versions of Azure Functions have different ways to access the Azure Function settings, but this page should explain the easiest way to get your application setting values for each Azure Functions version! While…Continue reading How to get application settings for your Azure Function App using C#?

"Publishing Failed" for an Azure Function

Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

This post describes how to fix the error, where when publishing Azure Functions or Azure App Services you get an error like this: “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.” This is luckily another straightforward fix!  Problem Azure Function Publish fails…Continue reading Fixing the error “Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the Destination because it is locked by an external process.”

"The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable." leads to a 404 error in jQuery.

How to fix an Azure Function failing with error “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

This post describes one way to resolve a problem, where you receive an error like “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” when calling your Azure Functions. Problem Another day, another simple, yet kind of weird issue to solve! I…Continue reading How to fix an Azure Function failing with error “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

Obama congratulates you on your broken apps

Fixing an unhandled exception about StructureMap configuration failing (messed up assembly bindings)

So, you’re running a console program, but while you try running it, you get an error like this: “StructureMap.Exceptions.StructureMapConfigurationException“, with a message like this: “Unable to find the exported Type’s in assembly” (the typo done by Microsoft, not me). There are a number of reasons for this error, but for…Continue reading Fixing an unhandled exception about StructureMap configuration failing (messed up assembly bindings)