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Microsoft MVP 2019 - .NET and Azure

It was this time again: the annual cycle of the Microsoft MVP re-nomination.

Thousands of MVPs sat in front of their computers on the first of July hoping that they would be another year of MVP and part of this special community - me too.

Azure IoT: send messages with C#

Requirements

• You must have created an IoT Hub in Azure.
• You must have created a device in your created Azure IoT Hub .
• You need the connection string your IoT Hub device (IoT Hub -> Devices -> Select Device -> Configurations)

NuGet

To use the DeviceClient , which opens the connection to your Azure IoT Hub , you need the NuGet package Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Client

Setting up an Azure IoT Hub

The Azure IoT Hub is a highly scalable, secure platform for the bidirectional communication of devices and software components in the sense of IoT - both in the area of industrial IoT (IIoT) and in the simple IoT for devices. In addition to device communication, the Azure IoT Hub can also provide device provisioning.

ASP.NET Core Serverless on AWS Lambda

Serverless

Serverless is on everyone’s lips; in the .NET area it means mainly Azure Functions. In principle Serverless is all about not having to worry about scaling yourself - and that is much more than just Azure Functions.

Resize Images with .NET Core

To resize images like PNG, JPEG, JPG and Co using .NET Core, there is no SDK support available today.

But the Microsoft Mono team has written a wrapper named SkiaSharp based on the Google library Skia , which works wonderfully and fast - but unfortunately a bit complex. The documentation can also be improved.

Add custom claims to token in Auth0

By default, the token of Auth0 does not contain any information about the user’s name. The default claim for the name would be: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019

AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers an extra toolkit for Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 that integrates seamlessly to create projects based on AWS products.

Upload to Azure Storage with PHP

I had the wonderful task to change a 20 year old PHP software during a Lift-and-Shift migration to Azure, so that it doesn’t store files directly in the web folder anymore, but uploads them to an Azure Blob Storage.

Update Azure Storage Blob Properties with PowerShell

In the past days I uploaded a lot of files to an Azure Blob Storage using the Azure Storage Explorer.

Run MSSQL on Docker for Windows

For some time now, Microsoft has been providing various MSSQL Server versions for Docker - for Linux and for Windows. This means that spending a few hours to install MSSQL Server on your own PC is a thing of the past and is now available with Docker in a few moments.