Azure API Apps–Troubleshooting PowerApps Export error: Unable to download...
Overview There is functionality in the Azure Portal that allows you to use the API definition of your Azure App Service and Export this through the “Export to PowerApps + Microsoft Flow” button in the...
View ArticlePage Loads slow and you notice certain files (js, html) seem to be extra slow...
Symptom You notice particular files (.js, .html and more) are downloading very slowly Cause Certain files are sent back to the client as chunked encoded. CDNs and Web Servers both show this behavior....
View ArticleIIS Azure Web App – Force HTTPS AlwaysOn ping should return 200 for FastCGI...
Overview PHP, Java and other FastCGI hosted environments should respond to an Always On ping to keep the child process warmed up. Specifically in Azure App Services we send a request to the Root of...
View ArticleAzure Function App Error: We are not able to retrieve the runtime master key
Overview When you access an Azure Function app from the portal it will attempt to retrieve the Function runtime keys. This is documented at...
View ArticleHow to run classic ASP on Azure Web Apps
Overview We mention you can use ASP on Azure Web Apps but documentation is a bit scarce. This walkthrough will show how to deploy a simple vbscript ASP page to a Azure Web App. Steps Create a Classic...
View ArticleHow To: Azure WebJob calling a Web Page using Powershell
Overview Just a quicky post to get you started on how to use CRON expressions and Powershell to call a web page from a WebJob. There are many different ways to use Azure WebJobs and this is using a...
View ArticleAzure .NET Core Application Settings
Overview This article outlines how to work with Application Settings in ASP.NET Core with Azure Web Apps (Azure App Services) super simple Jeff version… How To Ref: Working with Azure App Services...
View ArticleChecklist for creating your first .NET Azure WebJob
Overview I thought it would be beneficial to add a checklist of things you may have to do when creating a .NET Azure WebJob. Some of this applies to any Azure WebJob, but I will focus on a .NET Visual...
View ArticleAzure App Services authentication to a foreign Azure Active Directory
Overview You have some code you have created in your subscription and a customer wants to authenticate and use your application. You are not connected to any other Azure Active Directory...
View ArticleWalkthrough–Add Azure Web App to Visual Studio Team Services
Overview In this walkthrough I will show you how to use Visual Studio Team Services with an existing Azure App Service project (specifically an Azure Web App). We will add a task to update/create...
View ArticleAzure App Service Authentication – Using a Blob Storage for Token Cache
Chris had this note in his blog App Service Token Store “As an alternative, you can provision an Azure Blob Storage container and configure your web app with a SaS URL (with read/write/list access)...
View ArticleASP.Net–Do not use Task .Result in main context
Overview You can guarantee you will deadlock if you have a call similar to this in your code, where CallHttp is a an AsyncTask that awaits a result: public class DeadlockController : ApiController {...
View ArticleAzure Web Apps for Containers–Simple Walkthrough of Node.JS app deployment
Overview This is a super simple walkthrough to show how to use Git and push your app to Azure Web Apps for Containers. It will not persist your Git repo but is a super quick way to show how this is...
View ArticleEasily Create a SAS to Download a File from Azure Storage–Using Azure Storage...
Overview In this scenario, you want to provide your customer with a secured URL to download a file from Azure Storage. You can do this programmatically of course but another option is to use the Azure...
View ArticleInstall Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Overview I had trouble getting Visual Studio Code to install by simple clicking on the package from https://code.visualstudio.com. Whether I tried do download or use Ubuntu Software to install this I...
View ArticleSwitching from dropbox to github–Expected a ‘Git’ repository but found a...
Overview If you have dropbox selected for a deployment option and want to switch to github you may get the error message: Expected a 'Git' repository but found a 'None' repository at path...
View ArticleForce HTTPS for Azure Web App
Overview Sometimes you need or want to force HTTPS for Azure App Services (Azure Web App, Azure Mobile App, Azure Function App, etc…). In the past you could do this with a web.config change. Solution...
View ArticleImage files do not deploy when I add them to ASP.Net project
Overview You might notice that when you add files like images (.png .bmp) to your project that these are not updating to your Web App (Azure Web App or on premise). Cause This is by design and because...
View ArticleEasy tables – How can I manipulate and See My Data Efficiently
Overview The Easy tables feature of Node.js backend Azure Mobile Apps is a great way to do your initial development. Once you get a few hundred rows of data however the browser based interface simply...
View ArticleAzure App Service error: AADSTS50011: The reply address...
Overview When you deploy an Azure Active Directory application that was working great locally you may get the following error when logging in: AADSTS50011: The reply address...
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