Azure, DevOps and .NET articles

Reducing operational costs on the Azure cloud is a task that is often overlooked. However, the Cost analysis service is designed to provide in-depth, easy-to-access insights into your cloud expenses.

Especially when participating in projects for large companies you will not believe the amount of cash that can be saved on resources that nobody uses and forgot to delete.

In this article I would like to share with you the ten most important terms, based on my experience so far, of the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service. On Microsoft Defender, there are multiple overviews of security issues and navigating can be daunting. To make the introduction easier to grasp, I use the following screenshot to highlight the features in the UI and then explain each one in no more than three sentences. Let’s begin.

When working with Azure Pipelines, you may encounter a situation where you don’t know the repository name before the pipeline runs. In such cases, using the checkout: git://MyProject/MyRepo method won’t work, as variables can’t be used as values in that syntax.

You will get the following error from Git:

fatal: Cannot prompt because terminal prompts have been disabled.
fatal: could not read Password for 'https://[email protected]/...': terminal prompts disabled

To overcome this challenge, I came up with a solution: create a task at the beginning of your job definition that “authenticates” the pipeline against your Azure DevOps project.

Let’s see this in action.

Navigating through the complexity of NuGet package dependencies aka “NuGet hell” in .NET applications can be a daunting task. The project.assets.json file, found in the obj folder of your .NET projects, is a crucial resource in managing these dependencies. This file provides detailed information about the packages used, including direct and transitive dependencies. In this article, we’ll explore what the project.assets.json file is, how to use it to understand your dependencies, and how it can help you keep your packages up to date.

Puppeteer Sharp is a website crawler for C#. I personally use it to crawl websites for price information of products that I am interested in. In this article, you are going to learn about the configurations you have to do if you want to use the crawler in a Linux hosted web application.