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Publishing SonarQube badges using Azure Functions

Jul 12, 20212 min read 184 views

We have started to use SonarQube, an awesome tool for static code analysis, and due to several reason we have to use the on-prem version and not the cloud version. Now that we use SonarQube we want maximum visibility of the metrics that SonarQube pr...

Docker: Build Azure DevOps Build Agent Image and run as a Docker Container

May 1, 20215 min read 77 views

For many years I have been using TFS/VSTS/DevOps to manage different organization's continuous integration. I have been using CI for many projects, and while it is possible to use Azure hosted agents and also at a very fair price (1800 minutes for fr...

Docker: Build Azure DevOps Build Agent Image and run as a Docker Container

Fixing Visual Studio Continuously Prompting for Credentials

Apr 25, 20211 min read 32 views

Sometimes I find a solution to problems I stumble upon infrequently - this means that next time I have the same problem enough time has passed so that I can no longer remember the solution to the problem. In these cases I find it very helpful to be a...

Reusing Initialization Code in Startup.cs

Apr 24, 20213 min read 90 views

Today we are going to have some more DI fun and extend the ServiceCollection used in .NET to inject services. Some back ground info.. I am working on a big project with lots of different projects that all are sharing some of the same code base. This...

Getting a user's Gravatar data using Azure Functions

Apr 23, 20215 min read 43 views

Getting a user's Gravatar data using Azure Functions Years back I created a Gravatar library for C# to use in some projects where I needed some basic user profile information. You can read more about that in an article I wrote about that subject. The...

Getting a user's Gravatar data using Azure Functions

Using IHttpClientFactory in Azure Functions

Apr 22, 20215 min read 476 views

Are you using HttpClient in your .net projects as well as Azure Functions as general .net projects? That is awesome, however, in this post I am going to talk about the IHttpClientFactory, what benefits you gain from using it, how to use it and why I ...

Using IHttpClientFactory in Azure Functions