Category: Technical

[Azure] Setting up continuous integration for (existing) Azure Functions

I a previous blog I showed how you might replace your existing Azure WebJobs with Azure Functions. If you’re creating these functions as part of a project, you’re bound to have some sort of source control solution in place and you might want to leverage the possibility to automatically deploy your code (aka continuous integration).

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[IoT] Aquarium monitor; Sending commands back to your hardware

Let’s start with some awesome news first! All of the sources for this project are now live on GitHub! Which doesn’t mean I’m close to being finished by the way, but it does allow you to take a look and maybe even contribute should you want to. This includes all of the code from the

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[O365] Deploying a SharePoint theme / branding using JavaScript only

With provider hosted add-ins being introduced in SharePoint 2013, the world of SharePoint devs shifted to using provisioning schemes to get their stuff in SharePoint sites. And this worked, quite well i might add. You might have read my post on SPMeta2 vs PnP (which is a bit outdated I must add). These provisioning engines

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Web API controller hosted in Azure not respecting [AllowAnonymous]

Working on a project, I encountered a situation I couldn’t wrap my head around. The project includes a (rather simple) ASP.NET Web API project which is published to an Azure App Service instance. Up to now, all of the endpoints I was calling I had secured using Azure AD authentication which is a breeze to

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[IoT] Replacing webjob with Azure function

In this blog post I will not be adding any new functionality to my aquarium monitor project. Instead, I’m going to replace already existing functionality. Not because that’s needed, but just because I can šŸ˜‰ We’ll be looking at replacing our webjob instance using something new which is calledĀ Azure Functions. If you didn’t read itĀ or

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[SP] Recap of #FutureOfSharePoint; not super thrilled

Today Microsoft revealed “The future of SharePoint” in a dedicatedĀ event. There was some hyping in the weeks towards this as you might expect, so everyone including meĀ was sitting tight to hear what was coming. I watched the entire presentation and although there were some very awesome things in there, I can’t help feeling not overly

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[IoT] Stream Analytics reference data updates

If you’ve read my post on Azure Stream Analytics, you’ve seen how you can configure a reference data blob to be used to compare incoming IoT data with certain thresholds. The reference data is stored in Azure blob storage, within a certain structure of folders. Now what about updating that file? I found that updates

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[IoT] Enabling Windows IoT Remote Server on Raspberry Pi

If you have Windows IoT running on your Raspberry Pi and like me you’re a Windows Insider running a recent insider build (in my caseĀ 10.0.14295.1000), you might have noticed the “Remote” option in the UI. This allows you to enable a simple version of “Remote Desktop”-like functionality. In my case, clicking the checkbox in the

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[IoT] Aquarium monitor; the Azure notification hub

Hey there! Welcome back again to post #7 in my Internet of Things aquarium monitor series. In this series I’m explaining how to use Windows 10 IoT and Azure to read out sensor data, process it and act on it. And that “act on it” part is what we’ll take a look at in this

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[IoT] Aquarium monitor; mobile app, Cordova style

Finally! PostĀ #6 in my blog seriesĀ on building an aquarium monitor solution using Azure! In my last postĀ we created a Web API project which provides an API for any application to use. In this post, we’ll take a look at creating an Apache Cordova application for use on mobile phones. This app will consume the API

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