16 posts tagged with "microsoft"

There are few mandatory sites that every developer on azure should know. This post will contain a curated list of awesome websites which will definitely help.

Azure Checklist - This checklist is your guide to the best practices for deploying secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure in Azure

Devops Generator - It is really a nice tool to get you a starting point for your demos on azure devops

Azure Charts - Azure heatmap where you can see the changes to Microsoft cloud services in a heat map visualisation

Cosmic notes - Learn more about Azure Cosmos DB database, one Cosmic Note at a time!

AKS Workshop - You’ll go through tasks that will help you master the basic and more advanced topics required to deploy a multi-container application to Kubernetes on Azure

Price Calulator - Pricing calculator to help you understand the pricing. This tool will make it easier to understand the pricing of the different services/products.

Azure VM pricing - Find and compare Azure Virtual machines specs and pricing on a one page.

Azure IoT Developer Kit - The Microsoft Azure MXChip IoT Developer Kit (a.k.a DevKit) can be used to develop and prototype IoT solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure services. It includes an Arduino compatible board with rich peripherals and sensors, an open-source board package and a growing projects catalog.

Severless Library - Collection of azure functions xamples. If you are looking for some ideas on how Azure functions can be leveraged or need an example for your scenario this is a great resource.

Azure speed test - Use this tool to measure the latency from your web browser to the Blob Storage Service in each of the Microsoft Azure Data Centers.

App Migration - Assess any app with an endpoint scan. Download the Migration Assistant and start your .NET and PHP app migration to Azure App Service.

The above tools/sites have helped me a lot in the journey of myself as a Azure developer. I'm sure this would help any of the developer who wants to get started on Azure.

Hey NG folks, ng-Srilanka 2019, the First-ever Angular conference on the 14th of September 2019 was a great success. It was a dream come true moment for me. Yes, I am one of those developers who marries one platform or framework and doesn’t care too much about the other ones. I have been an Angularjs/Angular developer for the past 7 years. One of the reasons why I wanted to make this happen was because of the strong and wide Angular community in Sri Lanka. When I became a GDE in Angular in 2018, my first aim was to build a strong developer,especially Angular community in SriLanka. NG-Srilanka has been a 2 year dream and finally I am glad it happened with all grandeur .

To those who missed the event this year, below are some of the biggest highlights and benefits that ng-Srilanka had to offer that you can take right back to your development desk.

First ever Angular conference:​

It was such an honor for me and my team to organize this fantastic conference for the first time in SriLanka and 2nd Angular conference in SouthEast Asia. When we started it we never imagined NG-Srilanka will grow into a large international conference which will attract such a strong support from the industry.

For the community, by the community:​

A set of volunteers from the two top universities in SriLanka focused on reaching out to and building interest in the local community. The event was adorned by 400+ passionate developers from 15+ universities and 20+ companies. We ensured that we had a diverse speaker line up and further promoted diversity with scholarships and ensured that most participants made it to the event.

NG-Scholarship for students :​

Unlike most of the Angular conferences, we came up with a scholarship program to provide free training on Angular by the local experts. The scholarship winners were selected based on the knowledge on Angular and their passion to learn more.

Great Agenda:​

NG-Sri Lanka 2019 kicked off with @mgechev of the Angular team, who joined us from California and delivered the keynote. Later, the sessions were divided into two tracks named "Stacked" and "Sandwich". "Stacked" track touched upon various topics on Angular and "Sandwich track" deep dived into specific workshops. The event was also garnsihed with few lighter moments like entertainment performances by NSBM students.

Finally the speakers addressed the audience in an open QnA session, through which certain Angular topics were further discussed.This was a huge value add for the attendees, and proved truly a platform where many meaningful conversations can happen.

An AWESOME Team:​

The real success of ng-Srilanka was the team behind it. Thank you, to the fantastic co-organizers who worked with me day and night, the amazing support staff , dedicated volunteers, the sponsors, the awesome speakers and of course the great attendees.I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the event, devoted their time and support to make this conference a big HIT.

Such a nerve wracking but amazing experience! So lucky to work with such a supportive team.

We've been recieving wonderful feedback from the speakers,attendees and several others on social media about the conference. Looking forward to NG-Srilanka 2020!

There are few cool speed test tools available out there which allows you to test network latencies and speed to data centers from different countries and locations.  Along with finding the closest Datacenter near your location, it tests the storage latency as well as upload and download speeds. 

Check it out from the following urls:

𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲: http://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net

𝗔𝗪𝗦: https://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-for-aws

Make use of the above tools to identify which region is suitable for your solution. Hope it helps.

I have been working with couple of applications built with CosmosDB and one of the things that surprised me was one cannot clear all documents in a collection from the Azure web portal or using the Storage Explorer. As I was struggling to do this while doing some tests on the application I decided to write a blog on the solution I used. There are two ways to achieve the same

• Using a stored procedure
• Using Cosmosdb SDK

Using Cosmosdb SDK:​

I came up with a script in Node which can be done with any of the programming languages such as C#,Python supported by the SDK

Let’s go through the steps:

Step 1:

Open VScode and Create a file named cosmosdb_helper.js

Step 2:

Let’s install the necessary packages needed.

Install documentdb javascript sdk with the following command,

npm i documentdb

and you will see the output as follows

Let’s install require to handle the dependencies with the following command,

npm i require

and you will see the output as follows,

Step 3: 

Let's do some coding. You will be able to understand the following code with the comments added on each line,

https://gist.github.com/sajeetharan/8efe2c9424dfc89d1f58b34627858944

Suppose if you have partitionKey created with your collection, you need to pass queryoptions with the partitionKey in selectAll as well as deletDocument as follows,

https://gist.github.com/sajeetharan/d5302257d3b5e54a33e5601b215decf1

Step 4:

Let’s run the script and see the output,

You can run the helper script as follows,

if you want to list all documents in the collection,

node cosmosdb_helper.js selectAll

which will list the output of all documents in the collection.

If you want to delete all documents within a collection, you can run the script as,

node cosmosdb_helper.js deletAll

which will remove all documents in the collection.

Using a stored procedure:​

As mentioned above, 2nd way is to use the stored procecure given by Microsoft employee as mentioned here.

Hope the helper script will help someout out there in order to delete all documents in a collection. You can get the whole code from Cosmosd_Helper

In this blog i will start with an introduction to .NET Core CLI tools with an example of how to create a web API using the CLI tools provided with .NET Core. At the end we will set up a solution grouping an API project and a test project. Let's dive into the steps,

Step 1 :  Installing the tools

Need to install .NET Core and Visual Studio Code that are supported on Mac, Unix and Windows. You can read more on how it works on multi-platform/framework.

Step 2 :  Creating the solution

Let's open the terminal/Powershell as a administrator to create our solution. Lets create a solution named DotNetCoreDemoApi

  dotnet new sln -o DotNetCoreDemoApi  

The above command will create a new folder and DotNetCoreDemoApi a solution file with the  name DotNetCoreDemoApi sln .

Lets get into that folder.

Step 3: Creating the web API project

Run the following command,

 cd DotNetCoreDemoApi 

Now that the solution is here, we can create our API project. Lets name the web API as DotNetCoreDemoApi. Run the following command to create the project.

dotnet new webapi -o DotNetCoreDemoApi  

That command will create a sub folder named DotNetCoreDemoApi  inside the solution DotNetCoreDemoApi and the ouput is as follows.

The web API folder should contain a few files generated as above  but what we require right now is DotNetCoreDemoApi.csproj. We will add a reference to it in our solution. To do so, run the following command:

 dotnet sln add ./DotNetCoreDemoApi/DotNetCoreDemoApi.csproj

Step 4: Run the Web API After getting a confirmation message as above , lets start the API by running that command:

 dotnet run --project DotNetCoreDemoApi  

After a few seconds, it should display a message  that the API is now running locally as above. You may access it at http://localhost:5000/api/values which is the Values API default endpoint.

That's all , API is ready and it is up and running locally. I will continue setting up the TestProject in the same solution in the upcoming blog. With the DotNet core it is very feasible to get your web api setup and running in 5 minutes.