In this article, we'll explore how to integrate the Azure Storage client library for Javascript into a Node.js application. We'll cover the steps to read and write blobs from Azure Storage, and we'll also discuss how to obtain your Storage Account Key. By the end of...
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Introducing AIChatUI: Open Source AI Chat Sample with Azure OpenAI Service & GPT-3 / GPT-4
Since I’ve been working with Azure OpenAI Service from a developer perspective as well, I’ve decided to build a sample application to help demonstrate not just the IaC deployment of Azure OpenAI Service and GPT models, but also to demonstrate some basic use cases of...
Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet
When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using ASP.NET Core, it's important to setup an automated build. The automated build will need to use the dotnet CLI to build the...
Goodbye: MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA Certifications are Retiring
In the continuation of the move towards all role-based certifications, Microsoft has announced that they are officially retiring all of the MCSE,...
Microservices Architecture Hands-on Lab: Developer Edition – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this hands-on lab, you will construct an end-to-end Proof of concept for ticket ordering based on a microservices architecture based on Service...
Azure Media AI Hands-on Lab – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn how to build, setup, and configure a Web Application that performs media streaming using Azure Services; including...
.NET Core 3.0 Released / .NET 5 is vNext
It feels like it was not too long ago when .NET Core 1.0 was released. Well, today Microsoft just announced the latest .NET Core 3.0! There have...
Visual Studio Online Web-based IDE Private Preview
"Developing for the cloud, in the cloud" has been a pretty cool idea for some time now. There are times when locally installed developer tools make...
AZ-203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Certification Exam
The AZ-203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests...
AZ-201 Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions Certification Exam
The AZ-201 Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests...
AZ-200 Microsoft Azure Developer Core Solutions Certification Exam
The AZ-200 Microsoft Azure Developer Core Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests...
Introduction to Azure Maps – Geospatial and Location APIs
The Azure Maps service is a Platform-as-a-Service API offering within the Microsoft Azure cloud that provides geospatial / GIS capabilities. The...
Microsoft Build Conference Coming May 7 – 9, 2018
The "Microsoft Build" conference is Microsoft's annual developer conference. Build is the sister conference to the Microsoft Ignite conference....
Free eBook: Python Data Science Handbook
The book "Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data" published by O'Reilly and written by Jake VanderPlas is available for...
Open Source Book: Programming the Blockchain in C#
Blockchain is a really interesting technology, but it's mostly remained very difficult to implement. The "Programming the Blockchain in C#" free...
Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification
A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is "the world's most popular API tooling". It's a powerful...
OSS Spotlight: Swagger
There have been a few approaches to make sharing and consuming Web Services easier over the years. Many developers have worked with WSDL and SOAP...
Azure Logic App Updates January 2017
Microsoft has announces a bunch of updates to Azure Logic Apps. If you're note familiar with Azure Logic Apps, they provide a "no-code" solution for...
Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview for VS’2015
Azure Functions The serverless computing realm of cloud computing has been growing in interest and functionality lately. Recently, Azure Functions...
Fluent API Libraries for Azure .NET SDK
Just as Microsoft is constantly working to update, upgrade and add to the overall Microsoft Azure platform, they are also working to keep updating...
Azure Developer Exam (70-532) Gets ARM Refresh
It's been about 2 years since the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification exam was first release. Over that time there's been a...