In Entity Framework code-first, if you have a domain model like the following: public class Country { public int Id { get; set; } [Index] public string IsoCode { get;…
A couple of days ago Facebook released Yarn, a new package manager for Javascript, with a focus on speed and consistent package dependency management across machines. With Yarn, engineers still have access to…
In this post we are going to explore what we need in order to setup a local environment for our Azure Functions implementation, and how we can easily update our Azure Functions App…
In this post we are going to explore a feature provided by Azure App Service called “Testing in production” that allows you to direct a portion of live user traffic to one…
In this post we are going to explore: how to simulate CPU-load hosted on an Azure web app; how you can set simple rules for automatic scaling; and how to setup alerts to…
Sometimes, it is helpful to be able to set a timer to auto shutdown your PC, after a certain amount of time. In Windows 10 you can do that through many ways,…
A common practice to increase the performance and availability of a web application is to distribute it in multiple servers across the globe. Thus, customers will be served from the data-center that is closer to them,…
In order to use .NET Core on your Mac, you first need to install the latest version of OpenSSL. The easiest way to get this is from Homebrew. ~$ /usr/bin/ruby -e…
In this post we are going to use Visual Studio Team Services to automate the build and deployment task of an ASP.NET Core Web application to Azure. What is Visual Studio Team…
In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you…