Michael McKenna

JSON Patch Support with Swagger and ASP.NET Core 3.1

Getting Swagger and JsonPatchDocument to play nice

Posted on October 7, 2020 | Michael McKenna

By default the schema generated is that of JsonPatchDocument and not an array of operations. This is how I generated an accurate Swagger speficiation for my .NET Core API Project. [Read More]

Migrating multi-tenancy to .NET Core 3.1 (LTS)

How to make the multi-tenant solution compatible with .NET Core 3.1

Posted on October 2, 2019 | Michael McKenna

.NET Core 3.1 is out and it's a LTS release. Our 4 part multi-tenancy series is already out of date! Here we'll cover off the breaking changes and the updates we need to make. [Read More]

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Creating a multi-tenant .NET Core Application - Tenant specific authentication

Tenant specific authentication, part 4 of 4

Posted on July 15, 2019 | Michael McKenna

This time we are looking at how we can configure authentication on a per-tenant basis. [Read More]

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Creating a multi-tenant .NET Core Application - Tenant specific options

Tenant specific configuration options, part 3 of 4

Posted on July 1, 2019 | Michael McKenna

This time we are looking at how we can configure options on a per-tenant basis any third party service that supports the Options Pattern. [Read More]

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Creating a multi-tenant .NET Core Application - Tenant containers

Tenant containers, part 2 of 4

Posted on June 6, 2019 | Michael McKenna

This time we are looking at how we can configure services on a per-tenant basis which allows us to resolve a different service based on which tenant is active. An application isn't truly multi-tenant unless you can have a different services container for each tenant. [Read More]

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Creating a multi-tenant .NET Core Application - Tenant resolution

Tenant resolution, part 1 of 4

Posted on May 25, 2019 | Michael McKenna

This series of blog posts is an exploration of how to achieve multi-tenancy in an ASP.NET Core web application. In this part of the series we resolve a request to a tenant and introduce the ability to access information about that tenant. [Read More]

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Host your Hugo site on Azure Storage

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Posted on January 3, 2019 | Michael McKenna

I’m a big fan of Static Site Generators (SSGs) for basic websites like this blog. By removing all the moving parts we can host blazing fast sites directly out of Azure Storage at very low cost. In this post I’ll cover how to host a static website created with Hugo under a custom domain using Azure Storage (Static Sites) and Cloudflare which is automatically deployed from GitHub using Azure DevOps. [Read More]

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Using Azure Functions to text you when your servers are down

Posted on December 6, 2016 | Michael McKenna

So I’ve just read a great blog post by Nick Malcolm on Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down. The thing I like most about it is that it’s serverless so no infrastructure to maintain and worry about. However, not everyone is on AWS. The environment I want to monitor is all hosted in Azure! Turns out Azure also fully supports this serverless set up and it’s just as easy, if not easier, to do the exact same thing using Azure Functions and Alerts. [Read More]

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Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader...

Posted on November 28, 2016 | Michael McKenna

VS 2017 RC is out, no better time to go remove any old versions of Visual Studio I have lying around. However, when I uninstalled an old version of VS 2012 Express - boom, all my local sites stopped working with the following missing assembly error. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PageInspector.Loader, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. It looks like it’s an assembly that VS 2012 adds which is why it’s no longer available after uninstall, but we are still trying to reference it somewhere. [Read More]

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Update multiple Git repositories on Windows at once using Powershell

Posted on November 17, 2016 | Michael McKenna

If you’ve got a bit of time there’s plenty of guides on how to set up Git and Powershell but to make things simple we’re just going to go ahead and download GitHub Desktop. Phil Haack did a pretty good job at convincing me that even though GitHub Desktop is a GUI app - it’s a great way to get the Git command line set up and kept up to date also. [Read More]

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