You want only specific users or groups in your organization to have access to your frontend-only app? This post explains how to use Microsoft Entra ID (formerly know as Azure Active Directory) to provide enterprise grade security in authentication and authorization of users and security groups in single page apps like Angular. — I just came across this customer requirement in one of our projects:

This post describes the steps required to connect any custom domain or sub domain to Azure Front Door as platform gateway using Cloudflare as DNS with CNAME flattening. — When using Azure’s new SaaS offering Front Door as your platform gateway/CDN/Web Application Firewall you will want to use your own custom domain or sub domain with it. When working with domains it’s important to understand the difference between a zone (aka domain) apex and a sub domain:

E2E example on how to automate the deployment and use of Azure Key Vault using Bicep, RBAC and Azure Pipelines. In a perfect model world we would not require a secret store like Azure Key Vault any more as all services would be authorizing between each other using managed identities…

How to log from anywhere using ILogger and logLevel with .NET and Dependency Injection — When building Functions Apps I reach the point when I want to do Dependency Injection really fast. So typically I would start to create services and then register them in a startup class like: using Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Extensions.DependencyInjection; using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection; [assembly: FunctionsStartup(typeof(LoggingDemo.Startup))] namespace LoggingDemo; class Startup : FunctionsStartup { public override void Configure(IFunctionsHostBuilder builder)…

How to use the output of a Bicep deployment triggered from a Azure Pipeline for subsequent tasks, jobs and stages. — When composing pipelines in Azure DevOps that involve deploying to Azure using Bicep you will at some point want to use pipeline variables as input parameters and use the output of such a deployment, e.g. the name of a resource you just created in a subsequent pipeline task e.g. …

Since Azure Active Directory B2C works a bit different this article explains how to setup authorization with ASP.NET Core and authentication with Angular and Postman. — Intro Azure Active Directory B2C (AAD B2C) ist Microsoft’s IDM for “non-organizational” users like consumers. It has many similarities with the “regular” Azure Active Directory and some quirks. …

Since Medium’s stats are limited to 90 days and to enable deeper analysis you might want to pull the stats into your own system. Luckily there is a (hidden) http API. — Actually that API is not that hidden, it’s the same URL than the stats website: https://medium.com/{yourHandle}/stats The only difference is that we need to add the right Accept header to the request to return a JSON object instead of the HTML page:

Azure offers a dedicated service to send emails securely at scale. This post walks through all steps required to set this up in .NET. — In my previous blog post “How to send emails in .NET with the Microsoft Graph” I pitched using the Microsoft Graph as an alternative for the deprecated SmtpClient. While this is a good (and free!) solution for all organizations that use Exchange Online (aka Office 365) this also comes with…

Sending emails using the SmtpClient isn’t recommended in .NET and Exchange Online deprecated basic authentication so there is need for a new approach for sending emails through Office 365. — In the past the easiest way to send an email in .NET was using the smtp protocol through the SmtpClient class. This also worked fine when using Exchange Online (Office 365) mailboxes with basic authentication.