Posts from October 2021

Blog posts published in October 2021

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Posts from October 2021 (4)

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2021-10-26 5:16 a.m.
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koskila
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azurekeyvault visual-studio

How to authenticate against Azure Key Vault both in Azure and local development environment?

Azure Key Vault is great. But when developing locally, it can be a bit of a pain. You can always circumvent it and create some classical solution, such as simply wrapping all of your key/secret assignments in if-else-clauses that will use local configuration if you're running locally and only call the Azure Key Vault if you're in the cloud... But that feels so incredibly early-2000-ish. Isn't there a better option available? I mean - obviously, there is!

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2021-10-19 8:12 p.m.
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koskila
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cosmosdb dotnet5

System.Text.Json.JsonPropertyName not working for CosmosDb in .NET Core/5/6?

This article explains how to fix an annoying issue with Microsoft's SDK for CosmosDb v3 - it comes with a Newtonsoft.Json dependency, that most of Microsoft's recent packages have let go of. With .NET Core 3.1 having shipped with System.Text.Json included, and (mostly) replacing Newtonsoft.Json, it's kind of the preferred option. However, CosmosDb v3 SDK doesn't support it and by default requires you to use Newtonsoft.

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Published on

2021-10-12 4:28 a.m.
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koskila
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assembly graph-api

Errors loading an assembly that's using Microsoft Graph API

Man, do I run into all kinds of issues with the smallest Azure Functions that I develop. And it's mostly my fault. The silver lining is that you're here to read this article, so you probably ran into this same stuff. Well - you should be happy to hear that this article describes fixes to a couple of issues - let's see if they help you out as well!

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2021-10-05 3:12 a.m.
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koskila
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azurefunctions cosmosdb

ILogger binding suddenly failing for Azure Functions - what to do?

This article explains another fun issue that you might run into when developing Azure Functions in your local environment. It was weird how unclear the few results were that I could find. And the issue is just... very hazy in general. But I was able to track the issue down, and thought I'd document the solution :) It's for myself, really, because I'm pretty sure I'll run into this one again. But if you find it useful, good for you! 😉 Problem So what is it that is failing?

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