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AzureFunctions

Azure, AzureFunctions, C#

Deploying EOL .NET Core to Azure App Services

As you all know, .NET Core 3.1 is now out of support since December 13 2022. If you follow me on my social media, I reminded my followers about this a little over a month ago. Unfortunately, some of the customers my colleagues and I deal with, have yet to migrate, and were caught by surprise at the last minute. I am and have been advising my customers to plan some time to migrate to .NET 6 (which is LTS), however, the time and priorities issue always come back. Fortunately, there are 2 solutions that you can put in place today to be able to continue deploying EOL .NET core versions. Solution 1: Deploying the application using the self-contained method…

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December 16, 2022 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments
AzureFunctions

Azure Functions in C# quick FAQs and tips

I get pinged once a while about something that doesn’t behave properly in Azure Functions, or about a general question about Azure Functions. I usually direct the developers to the right places. But I figured it would be a great idea to put all the answers I give in a post for future reference. Questions I use ILogger<T>, but it is not logging to the console when I deployed to Azure Bret Samblanet answers this well in a GitHub thread: This is another subtlety about how that console/debug log works in the portal. It only displays log messages if it knows they come from this function — which means they match the category Function.{FunctionName}.Class. The vanilla ILogger we pass in…

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February 12, 2021 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments
AzureFunctions, Personal

Introducting Azure Functions Slack binding

I am proud to announce the first version of my Slack Azure WebJobs Extension. The binding extension eases out the integration with Slack for sending messages. It also includes an easy way to create rich messages using Slack’s Block Kit. The blocks and its related elements also have implement validation to adhere to Slack’s API validation rules. This helps to have a first level validation before sending the requests to Slack and get a response of type 400: invalid_blocks. You can find the extension here. So for the ones who care a little bit more, here’s a of bit of context as to why I spent some time creating the binding extension. I was looking for an easy way to…

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June 3, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment