Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
It’s still in the works, but the Azure Functions team released a preview version of the “Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions”. At this time, you’ll need VS2015 Update 3 installed to get this to work, check out https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/12/01/visual-studio-tools-for-azure-functions/ for further instructions. So all excited I downloaded the tools, installed them and created my first local
If you’re working with Microsoft Flow, chances are that on some point in time you’ll run into a situation where the action you need simply doesn’t exist. If you’re a developer with skills to write C#, PowerShell, Node or even batch code, you’re in luck! Cause why not create that action yourself in the form
If you’re in the Microsoft Azure or Office365 space, chances are that you have a couple of accounts that you use to access these services. Your company account, MSDN subscription, maybe some customer accounts, a couple of demo tenants, etc. You’ll also know that switching between account is quite a bitch. You need to log
Two weeks ago, parts of the Internet came to a halt due to a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks have become pretty common these last few years, but usually target a specific website. For instance, attackers might target microsoft.com and start firing enormous amounts of requests to it. Due to the load, the website will eventually
I ran into this error debugging my Cordova app from Visual Studio, running the debugger locally instead of on my device. After logging into Azure Active Directory with valid credentials, the page would display this error: “You do not have permission to view this directory or page.” As this was the second time I had
In my aquarium monitor series I showed how to build an application to monitor a fish tank. The use of the Azure IoT components allow us to easily build these kinds of solutions based on generic components. It also allows us to scale, which makes it very suitable for scenarios with lots of devices or data. Should
Thrilled to announce that my session has been selected for Experts Live 2016. As the website says: “Experts live is THE event covering Microsoft Azure, Office365, Enterprise mobility suite, Operations management suite, Hyper-V and Windows”. I will be bringing a little IoT to the mix with my session on how I used Azure IoT components to
In a previous post you can read how I used Apache Cordova to create a client application that is linked to my back-end API hosted in Azure. For authentication, I made use of the built in authentication options of the Azure Mobile Apps plugin for Cordova (GitHub). This plugin simplifies the authentication flow process, which uses server flow
Previously I explained how I am using an Azure Notification Hub to send out notifications to a mobile application made with Cordova (read it here). This is cool, but in that scenario every notification was being sent out to every client. This is fine for some situations but in most cases you probably want some
If you’ve read my previous blog on Azure Stream Analytics, you know how Stream Analytics can be used to process all sorts of incoming data and send the end result to one or multiple outputs. This is particularly useful for ensuring the right data is saved, manipulating the data before saving or only filtering out