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EDI and AS2 Trading Partners with Logic Apps Integration Accounts
How to land X12, EDIFACT and AS2 partner connections on Azure Logic Apps: choosing an integration account tier, agreements, tracking and when to avoid it.
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Designing an Azure Cognitive Search Index with the v11 .NET SDK
How to size an Azure Cognitive Search service, design index fields you won't regret, and query safely with the newly GA Azure.Search.Documents v11 SDK.
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Azure Event Grid as Reactive Glue: Delivery, Retries and Dead-Letters
When to pick Event Grid over Service Bus or Event Hubs, and how to publish, handle, filter and dead-letter events so failed deliveries aren't silently lost.
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gRPC on .NET Core 3.1: Contracts, Streaming and Where It Fits
A practical guide to gRPC on ASP.NET Core 3.1: .proto contracts, unary and streaming calls, deadlines, auth, health checks and when REST is the better choice.
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Form Recognizer v2.0 in .NET: Receipts, Layout and Custom Models
Using the Form Recognizer v2.0 API from .NET: prebuilt receipts, layout tables, and custom models with and without labels, plus where each one falls short.
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Windows Virtual Desktop for Remote Work: Building It Properly
How to stand up Windows Virtual Desktop on the new Azure Resource Manager model: host pools, FSLogix profiles on Azure Files, scaling, and when not to use it.
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Azure Data Factory: Designing a First Pipeline You Can Safely Rerun
How I build a first Azure Data Factory pipeline: parameterised by date, idempotent staging loads, no secrets in JSON, and UTC-only schedule triggers.
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Model-Driven Apps on Common Data Service: Where the Logic Goes
Building a project tracker as a Power Apps model-driven app, and deciding what belongs in business rules, form scripts, and security roles.
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Replacing a Fragile HTTP Call with an Azure Service Bus Queue
Why an HTTP call between two services drops work, and how a Service Bus queue with peek-lock, duplicate detection and a watched dead-letter queue fixes it.
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Key Vault in ASP.NET Core 3.1 with Azure.Identity and Managed Identity
Wiring Azure Key Vault into ASP.NET Core 3.1 config with Azure.Identity 1.2, managed identity and access policies, plus the trade-offs to know before you ship.
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Application Insights for ASP.NET Core: Telemetry Worth Paying For
Instrumenting an ASP.NET Core 3.1 API with Application Insights: connection strings, sampling, custom metrics and alerts, without paying for noise.
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools: When Pooling Saves Money and When It Doesn't
How to size an Azure SQL Database elastic pool for database-per-tenant SaaS, measure tenant load first, and spot the workloads where pooling costs more.
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Building a Microsoft Teams Bot with Bot Framework v4 and .NET Core
A practical path from echo bot to Teams: TeamsActivityHandler, Adaptive Cards, proactive messages, Bot Channels Registration and the app manifest.
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Azure Blob Lifecycle Policies: Tiering and Deletion Without Surprises
How I design Azure Blob Storage lifecycle policies to move data to Cool and Archive and delete it, plus the early-deletion and rehydration traps to avoid.
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Power Automate's HTTP Action: Auth, Retries, Paging and Licensing
How to use the premium HTTP action in Power Automate properly: built-in Azure AD auth, retry policies, the 120-second limit, paging, and licensing.
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Rolling, Blue-Green and Canary Deployments on AKS
How to choose between rolling updates, blue-green and canary releases on AKS, what each one actually guarantees, and when the extra machinery pays off.
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Mining Customer Feedback with Azure Text Analytics v3
Using Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v3 and the .NET SDK to triage customer feedback: sentiment, key phrases, entities, batching and cost.
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Multi-Stage YAML Pipelines in Azure DevOps: A Starting Skeleton
A practical multi-stage YAML pipeline for .NET Core 3.1 on Azure DevOps: build, test, environments, approvals, templates, and the traps to avoid.
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Power BI Embedded for Customers: App-Owns-Data with a Service Principal
How to embed Power BI reports in a customer-facing app with a service principal, embed tokens, row-level security and a right-sized A SKU capacity.
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Moving to the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3: Patterns I Keep
What changed from the v2 DocumentClient to the Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3, and the client, query, batch and bulk patterns I reuse after migrating.
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Azure Functions v3 on .NET Core 3.1: The Setup I Actually Use
A practical Azure Functions v3 and .NET Core 3.1 setup: pinned packages, dependency injection, Polly retries, deployment, and the plan limits that bite.