The Azure Portal allows you to restart a specific instance in your App Service, but how do you know which one is which? Read on for a helpful tip!
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As a developer you’re probably familiar with the phrase “It was working before and I didn’t change anything!” That hit me today as I attempted to pull an update from a Github repo using Sourcetree. I was prompted for Github credentials, which were repeatedly rejected. After verifying that the credentials were valid (and that I […]
While working on the mobile apps for McAllen Next (my new side project, stay tuned for more soon!), I discovered a very strange issue when running the app on Android; I kept getting repeated errors like this: Binding: ‘IsLoading’ property not found on ‘RegionModel’, target property: ‘Xamarin.Forms.Label’ and as such, the UI would not bind […]
Sometimes it’s the little things you forget the easiest and most often that throw you for a loop. Today I was attempting to show a value in an ASP.NET MVC View which is stored as type long, representing a monetary amount in cents. I formatted it as currency: @string.Format(“{0:c}”, Model.Subtotal / 100) But when I […]
We previously looked at how you can use the WebAuthenticationBroker to allow end users to authorize a UWP app to access their Google account information. In this post we’ll complete the sample by describing how to authorize a UWP app to access Google Cloud Product services. To demonstrate this, we’ll recreate the ASP.NET MVC sample […]
It’s no secret that I love Windows, and especially writing UWP apps for Windows using C#. In fact I’ve written a bit about creating UWP apps in the past, so as a fan of UWP, I wanted to explore how one can leverage the Google Cloud Platform and other Google services in Windows apps.
At the end of the day, like most APIs you encounter in the wild, Google services are exposed as standard REST endpoints. If you know how to create, authenticate, and issue an HTTP request, you have everything you need to add Google’s extensive list of services (including the Google Cloud Platform) to your applications. However, most […]
Now that we understand how to authenticate a C# application to work with your own project’s GCP resources, let’s take it a step further. In this post, we’ll look at how we can combine that connectivity with end user data, via three-legged OAUTH authorization, to perform operations on user content, with their permission of course. […]
The new C# libraries for the Google Cloud Platform, available on NuGet, make it easy to get started adding these features to your platform. However, before you can use them, you obviously need to authenticate your application for access. Google uses OAUTH 2.0 as the protocol for authentication In this post we’ll discuss the different […]