RESTfully GETting JSON Formatted Data with BizTalk 2013
With the new WCF-WebHttp Adapter that shipped in BizTalk Server 2013 we now have the ability to specify which HTTP verbs to use – this opens up the possibility of invoking RESTful style applications....
View ArticleAzure Redis Cache – A Real World Example
Read the second post in this series: Serializing Custom .Net Types for use with the Azure Redis Cache. I spend a lot of my time at the moment architecting and writing integration code against Dynamics...
View ArticleSerializing Custom .Net Types for use with the Azure Redis Cache
In my previous post I looked at a real-world example of using the new Azure Redis Cache. One thing that was missing was the storing of custom .Net Types as cache values, which we’ll look at here. The...
View ArticleCapturing Custom Logs from Azure Worker Roles using Azure Diagnostics
In this post I’ll show you how to correctly configure diagnostics in an Azure Worker Role to push custom log files (NLog, Log4Net etc.) to Azure Storage using the in-built Azure Diagnostics Agent....
View ArticleInstalling Redis Cache Locally in a Development Environment
I recently blogged about using the excellent Redis Cache – which is now the preferred Azure caching solution – for a recent CRM integration project. In my development environment, I’m pointing against...
View ArticleCreating Personal Information Exchange (.pfx) Files from Separate Public and...
This blog post forms part of a larger series of posts looking at setting-up a SFTP Server for integration testing purposes. Some Certificate Authorities (CAs) use different file formats to store public...
View ArticleVisual Studio Paste Special – Paste Xml and JSON as Classes
I caught this great little tip while listening to the fantastic .Net Rocks Podcast – you can use the ‘Paste Special’ command in Visual Studio to create classes from raw Xml and JSON. Seriously, this...
View ArticleQuickly Configure Remote Desktop for Azure Worker Roles
We recently discovered that you can quickly and easily configure Remote Desktop for an Azure Worker Role instance directly from the Azure Portal, which saves the pain of doing it through Visual Studio...
View ArticleUpgrade Azure Cloud Service Web & Worker Roles to Azure SDK for .Net v2.7
I’ve put off upgrading my current project’s Web & Worker Roles from v2.5 of the Azure SDK for .Net to v2.7, thinking it would introduce a large number of breaking changes. But, with a little...
View ArticleAzure DocumentDb Error: “The input authorization token can’t serve the request”
I had an interesting one today whereby our stable Azure DocumentDb .Net code was throwing the following error on a newly built environment: The input authorization token can’t serve the request. Please...
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