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NDC 2024

The NDC Conference in Oslo is an annual event where software developers and tech enthusiasts gather to participate in workshops, attend talks and catch up on the latest trends. This year’s conference was fantastic, with many exciting presentations. I attended with colleagues from

ChatGPT OpenAI C#

Custom ChatGPT instructions for a .NET developer

In this blog post I'll share my custom ChatGPT instructions, tailored to a .NET developer

My DDDutch adventure

At Novanet, each year we get a competence fund we can use for attending conferences. This year I did choose DDD Europe. The conference was held in Amsterdam on 30th

App Roles in Microsoft Entra ID

App Roles is a new feature available for the applications registered in Microsoft Entra ID. They can be easily defined and assigned to users, (client) apps and groups. The App Roles assigned to a user or group will be present in the Role Claims

News in .NET 8

.NET 8 is the latest and greatest version of the .NET platform, which is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET 8 was released November 14, 2023, and will be supported for three years as a long-term

Azure Azure Application Insights slack

Send your application errors to Slack!

Why send errors to Slack? And how does it work? I'll show you why and how to send application errors from Azure Application Insights to Slack, and how this gives you a lot of easy accessible insights to what's happening in your solution.

hackaton iot

Beware of the AI-powered robots!

Some months ago I ordered 4 micro:bit-based Maqueen [https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2504.html] robots. I also ordered Huskylens AI-cameras and Maqueen Mechanics parts to connect to the robots. The idea was to gather our developers and let them use their skills on

Conferences Knowledge sharing

Talks by Novanet 2022

Video links to talks in the NDC and JavaZone conferences, held by people from Novanet.

Conferences

Developer Conferences 2023

It's time to start planning for next years conferences! We've collected some of the best developers conferences around. Hopefully we'll meet at one of the conferences below. January NDC Security 2023 | Security Conference for Software DevelopersNDC Security 2023

F# Azure Cognitive Search Azure Search

Writing an Azure Search indexer

Azure Cognitive Search comes with .NET SDKs. If your project needs are a bit more complex, you can write your own indexing logic.

SQL Server clustered index guid

Be careful with GUID as clustered index

TL;DR * In a relational database, primary keys are essential. Don't roll without them. * Primary key is by default promoted to the clustered index for the table. * Table rows are physically stored in clustered index order on disk. * An ever-increasing integer key

Microservices best practise structure

How to structure your microservice

This blog post will describe a way to structure your code for a .NET microservice.

Managed Identity Secretless Azure Functions

Azure Functions: ServiceBusTrigger using Managed Identity doesn't wake up when running on consumption plan

Setup: - .NET 6.0 - In-process/isolated v4 function apps - Consumption plan - Managed Identity Background Previously, I wrote a blog post "Azure Function secretless access to Azure Service Bus using Managed Identity [https://blog.novanet.no/azure-function-secretless/]", which describes

Summer resources

Finally summer is here! We have collected our very best reading and podcast tips. Do you have some time to spare or want to learn something new during the summer? Check out our top tips! Books Sam Newman Building Microservices, 2nd EditionLogo [https://samnewman.

Minimal APIs dotnet asp.net

Minimal APIs in .NET 6: How to bind [FromQuery]

Minimal APIs in .NET 6 does not support the [FromQuery]-binding. Here's how you mitigate that using custom bindings.

Azure App Service Azure Devops Docker

Hosting Docker containers in Azure App Service

In this blog post, I will show how to setup Azure App Service to run containers. We will also look at how to build and deploy Docker containers from Azure DevOps to an existing Azure App Service.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with bicep and GitHub actions

A quick step-by-step guide to get you up-and-running on bicep and Github Actions.

Conferences development

Developer Conferences 2022

Looks like we're finally going to be able to go to conferences again, in person! We've put together a list of relevant conferences, so that you can plan your 2022 conference season!

Managed Identity Secretless Azure Functions

Azure Function secretless access to Azure Service Bus using Managed Identity

In this blog post I will show you how to retrieve messages from an Azure Service Bus queue without using a connection string containing secrets.

Azure SQL database Managed Identity AAD authentication

Passwordless connection string to Azure SQL database using Azure managed identity

Traditionally, the connection string to the Azure SQL database contains both username and password. Even if you store these credentials in KeyVault, a password needs maintenance/rotation and it might end up in the wrong hands (for instance if sloppy developers keep the password

azure CLI dotnet dotnet user-secrets

Azure CLI and dotnet user-secrets part 2

How-to for how you can fetch connection strings and keys for Azure resources like Cosmos Db, SQL Server and Redis using Azure CLI.

azure CLI dotnet dotnet user-secrets

Azure CLI and dotnet user-secrets

Script dotnet user-secrets and Azure CLI to reduce time spent on configuring Visual Studio Code for debugging apps dependent on resources in Azure.

BankID Authentication Security

Implementing BankID on .NET Core using OpenID Connect

This blog post will guide you on how to implement Norwegian BankID and BankID on mobile, using a BankID provider named Signicat [https://www.signicat.com], which is one of the partners recommended by BankId [https://www.bankid.no/en/company/get-started/partners]. Signicat

Azure Azure App Service Ghost.io

Ghost on Azure with docker

I spent a lot of time to find out how I can host a ghost docker image on Azure. I couldn't find anything that I could understand and use. That's why I decided to do research and here is step

Azure Application Insights

Never IDLE state with Azure Application Insights

All web applications hosted on Web Apps become idle if nobody use them. And therefore first request "wake them up" and takes a little bit more time than the others. To keep the application always "awake" the easiest way is

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