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Azure App Service is a server-less product that can be used to host websites. For ASP.NET core websites, App Service Log feature allows users to configure logging for the web application. This article will show you how to configure Azure Blog Storage container as logging storage for ASP.NET Core ...

.NET 5.0 is officially released on 2020-11-10. Refer to this blog page for more details: Announcing .NET 5.0   Download Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.0 with .NET 5.0 SDK integrated. Release notes Download Visual Studio  .NET SDK version can be changed: { "sdk": { ...

.NET 5 RC2 was released on 2020-10-13. On Azure, you can only select .NET Core 3.1 or 2.1 LTS versions as runtime stack when creating web app as the following screenshot shows.   This will stay as is till .NET 5 official release. However, you can use extensions to run your .NET 5 ...

A Microsoft SharePoint list is a collection of data can be shared with team members or people who you give access to. It is commonly used to capture commonly maintained master data from manual inputs.  This article summarizes steps to create a SharePoint list and then load the data in the list ...

In SQL Server or some other relational databases, it is a very common requirement to create covering index with columns included in index pages beside the index key columns. With Entity Framework Core, you can also easily generate covering indexes using purely C# code. For Kontext website, backend ...

In the past few months, Kontext's DNS server was not very stable as it went offline several times accidentally. When the DNS server is down, our domain (kontext.tech) cannot be parsed successfully to the IP address of Azure App Service (the service that hosts this website); thus it became ...

With cloud platforms like Azure, we can totally separate user content storage from web application storage to decouple components from each other and to make the application easy to scale and deploy. This article provides detailed information with code snippets about how to use Azure server-less product Blob Storage and App Service to enable horizontally scalable web application for users to upload files (BLOBs).

When designing the architecture of Kontext platform, Azure SQL Database is chosen as the storage for relational data. TDE and other advanced security features are always enabled to protect the database. Backup plans are also employed to ensure I can always restore the database for as point of time ...

From release v0.6.0, Kontext website now runs from a package (zip file) in Azure App Services. This ensures storage (incl. database storage, blob storage for uploaded files) is separated from the application and the application itself is read-only.  In Azure DevOps release pipelines, it can ...

Google Chrome browser will mark websites as insecure if HTTPS is not enabled. To enable SSL on your Azure websites, you can purchase SSL certificates from many certificate authorities. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority. https://letsencrypt.org/ sjkp ...