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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are awesome and I use them every day. They are massive boost to coding and they make learning new things much easier. However, there are a lot of claims about AI that seem to be far ahead of where the technology is… 

The Microsoft ASP.NET middleware makes it straightforward to implement OAuth2 and OpenID Connect flows in an ASP.NET Website. In this article we will go through the code and configuration required to implement the authorization code flow using the standard… 

Microsoft SQL Server Profiler is an excellent tool for getting information about the SQL being built and run by Entity Framework against your Microsoft SQL Server database. SQL Server Profiler installs with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) but is a… 

Parsing JSON using C# can be a fiddly but with Newtonsoft’s Json.NET library it becomes a breeze. The library provides a number of types for parsing JSON which I find useful for hacking together tools to help work with big JSON structures. However, it can… 

It turns out that unit testing Azure Function Http Triggers is not straightforward. In particular, isolated functions that use the Built-in HTTP model . The built-in model passes HttpRequestData to the Run method and returns a HttpResponseData object… 

Recently I’ve been working on a project which has an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline with all environment config added using pipeline variables . The variable groups feature provides a much better way of grouping and managing pipeline config so I decided to…