18 result(s) in everything

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 3: Azure SQL, EF Core, and the Firewall Gotchas

  Provision serverless Azure SQL with auto-pause, wire up EF Core with retry-on-failure, survive the firewall rules, and go password-less with Entra authentication.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 1: Subscriptions, Tenants, and Entra ID Explained

  The Azure mental model for C# developers: tenant vs subscription vs resource group, what app registrations really are, and how DefaultAzureCredential kills hardcoded secrets.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 4: Managed Identity — Kill Every Connection String and API Key

  System vs user-assigned identities, RBAC role grants, and the DefaultAzureCredential chain that makes the same C# work on your laptop and in production.

• Blog Get Azure Subscription, Tenant, Client ID and Client Secret

  Find your Azure subscription ID and Microsoft Entra tenant ID, register an app for a client ID and secret, assign RBAC roles, and wire all four into DefaultAzureCredential.

• Blog Azure Resource Manager Templates Overview — with Bicep

  How Azure Resource Manager works and why templates beat scripts — with Bicep as the modern authoring language: parameters, resources, outputs, what-if previews, and deployment commands.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 7: Azure Deployment

  Ship the container to Azure: choosing between App Service, Container Apps and AKS, pushing to a registry, secrets and managed identity, and capturing it all as Bicep.

• Blog Create an Azure VM using C# and Azure.ResourceManager

  Provision a complete Azure Linux VM from C# with the modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK — DefaultAzureCredential auth, VNet, public IP, NIC, SSH-key login, and a migration map from the deprecated Fluent

• Blog Create and Connect an Azure Linux VM with an SSH Key Pair

  Create an SSH key pair with ssh-keygen, provision an Azure Ubuntu VM that accepts only that key using the Azure CLI, connect, and harden access — with cleanup commands.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 5: Blob Storage, Queues, and SAS Tokens That Expire Properly

  BlobServiceClient with DefaultAzureCredential, access tiers and lifecycle rules, and user-delegation SAS links that expire in minutes instead of account keys that never do.

• Blog Azure for .NET Developers — Part 2: Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to App Service the Right Way

  az webapp up, GitHub Actions, Key Vault configuration references, deployment slots for zero-downtime swaps, and the gotchas that break first deployments.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 8: CI/CD with GitHub Actions

  Automate build, smoke test, image, and deployment with GitHub Actions: SHA-tagged images, OIDC federation to Azure, environments with approvals, and pipeline hygiene.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 9: Microservices, Honestly

  What microservices buy, what they cost, how to find real boundaries — and why a modular monolith with schema-per-module ownership is the strongest launchpad either way.

• Blog WCF in the AI Era: Testing Legacy Services and Migrating to CoreWCF or gRPC

  A pragmatic WCF migration path: pin behavior with generated-client tests, lift unchanged contracts onto .NET 10 with CoreWCF (verified end to end), then move consumers to gRPC on your schedule.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 10: Observability with OpenTelemetry

  Close the roadmap with OpenTelemetry: traces, metrics, and logs from a running API, custom spans and counters for business operations, cardinality rules, and sampling strategy.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 6: Docker

  Package the API as a container: multi-stage Dockerfile, layer-cache-friendly restore, non-root user, and the two real build failures you will hit — verified with a running container.

• Blog Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 5: Caching

  Cache the hot read path with IMemoryCache and GetOrCreateAsync, choose expirations, survive stampedes and invalidation, and know when Redis and HybridCache enter.

• Blog Building Scalable Applications: Microservice Architecture Challenges

  While microservices architecture provides significant advantages in scalability, flexibility, and maintainability, it also introduces unique challenges that must be carefully considered when designing

• Blog Access SQL Server from a .NET Console Application

  Connect to SQL Server from a .NET 10 console app with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient: connections, parameterized commands, data readers, transactions, and where Dapper and EF Core fit.