Posts from July 2020

Posts from July 2020 (4)

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  Published on

  2020-07-27 8:49 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azurefunctionsentityframeworkcore

  How to resolve "Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is not supported on this platform." in an Azure Function App?

  Hah - another interesting one. This article describes how to resolve an error along the lines of " Microsoft.Data.SqlClient: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is not supported on this platform. ", thrown by the Azure Functions host. Apparently, you can run into this issue either on your local development machine or even in Azure. AI-powered summary: Quick Fixes for Azure Function App SQL Errors Encounter the “Microsoft.Data.SqlClient not supported” error in Azure Function Apps?

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  Published on

  2020-07-21 6:45 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  dockerhomeassistant

  Gotchas when configuring Home Assistant on Docker on Windows

  What a nice headline, right? 😅 One day, I thought I'd give Home Assistant a try! And obviously, I couldn't just make things easy and run it in a Linux virtual machine or my Raspberry Pi - instead, obviously, I decided to run it on Windows 10! And obviously, I'd use Docker for it. And of course, not just Docker, but docker-compose. Whatever that is. I don't know - it's the first time I'm trying out Docker. Or Home Assistant! Another learning experience coming in, am I right?

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  Published on

  2020-07-16 1:37 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azurewindowsupdate

  Enabling local cache for an Azure App Service

  This article explains one easy way for you to improve the performance and uptime of your Azure App Service. I'll explain a simple but kind-of-hidden and surprisingly badly documented feature - Azure App Service Local Cache, that is - which might make a huge difference. It sure did for me! Since it's such a no-brainer, I'm kind of half expecting everyone else to already have known about this, but since nobody told me about it, I'm going to document it for future use.

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  Published on

  2020-07-08 6:19 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  ef-coreentityframeworkcoresqlsql-query

  How to verify connection to the database in Entity Framework Core?

  This article explains how to perform a very simple and lightweight database connection test for an existing database context.

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