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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! BooksSam Newman Building Microservices, 2nd EditionLogoThis 2nd edition is

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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, which is one of the partners recommended by BankId. Signicat offers a demo client open for everyone, so it's easy to start

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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 by step documentation of

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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 to use Application Insights.

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How to create a database copy using Azure Automation

A lot of projects nowadays involve working with Azure SQL Server. When you need to test new features or fix bugs is really useful to have a copy of the production database. If you are not using Azure this usually means making a copy

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Julekalender 2019 - Løsningsforslag

This post is written in Norwegian only. Julekalenderen finnes på https://julekalender.novanet.no Tradisjon tro arrangerte Novanet julekalender også i 2019. Den besto av 15 luker i økende vanskelighetsgrad, der hver luke var et bilde fra et sted i verden som måtte besvares

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Hackaton - The Novanet Way

In the first month of every year all Novanet employees gather at a cabin in the mountains. It's time for the annual Hackaton! Everyone gathers for a weekend to work together on a technically challenging assignment. In addition to a lot of social activities and great food and beverages :)

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Connecting your Azure App Services with Azure AKS Kubernetes

At a customer I work for we have a number of web sites running on Azure App Services. We also have a number of backend services running in a kubernetes cluster. The backend services are all exposed out on the internet, and thus available

NDC Conferences

NDC 2019 - Our recommendations

NDC (Norwegian Developer Conference) has just ended its 12th consecutive event in Oslo. As always, the speaker list contained some big international names combined with some local talent. The agenda contained 185 talks divided in 10 simultaneous tracks, ranging through 45 different technologies. It's

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Managed Identity and AppAuthentication

I recently wrote a post where I did some exploring into managed identity for Azure app services. I showed how to get an access token, but only briefly mentioned the Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication package, and said nothing about how to write .NET Core

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Exploring Azure App Service Managed identity

Quite often we want to give an app service access to resources such as a database, a keyvault or a service bus. We used to do this by configuring the app service with secrets that enabled the application to access these protected resources. However,

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ASP.NET Core Memory Cache - Is the GetOrCreate method thread-safe?

In this blog post I will be researching a common question raised on forums like StackOverflow: "Is the GetOrCreate method thread safe?". This blog post also contains an interview with the creator of LazyCache, Alastair Crabtree

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Language please!

What this blog need is a bi-quarterly-ish language themed blog post series, said none of our (two) readers ever. So without further ado we proudly present our bi-quarterly-ish language themed blog post series!!!1!!1! In this premier installment we will look at one

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