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Azure CLI - Handy Commands

Azure CLI - Handy Commands

Login into Azure CLI (bit of a hand shake process with it) azure login Set the azure mode to work with azure config mode arm/asm Set the specific azure subscription to work with azure account set {name of account} Tail the logs for the site that you want to

Docker Foo - Docker Magic Commands

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Docker Foo - Docker Magic Commands

Get the IP Address of the docker container: docker inspect -f "{{ .NetworkSettings.Networks.nat.IPAddress }}" [container name] Run a commandline app from the docker container: docker exec [container name] [command to run] Attach the current terminal to the docker container terminal: docker exec -it [container name] [command to

Getting Identity Columns after insert, SQL Server and MySQL

Entity Framework

Getting Identity Columns after insert, SQL Server and MySQL

When inserting into a relational database (db), you can have the database automatically assign a value to the primary key of the row you are inserting. This is generally called the Identity Column. Using Entity Framework (ef) or Entity Framework Core (ef core) [https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework] (via an

Automapper Magic - MapFrom v ResolveUsing saving you from Nulls

Automapper Magic - MapFrom v ResolveUsing saving you from Nulls

A quick post regarding AutoMapper [https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper]. I normally use it from API models with a WebAPI project as it helps heavenly in the code monkey data mapping work one must do. I do love it. However, I ran into an interesting problem which I've

Entity Framework and Identity columns - Part 1 - The Hack

Entity Framework

Entity Framework and Identity columns - Part 1 - The Hack

The Problem... I had some issues with EF 6.5 recently that to be honest took me more than a few minutes to solve. I was modifying the migration of an existing schema, which updated correctly and all was good. When I ran a query to the table to insert

Changing the IIS Version Number

Changing the IIS Version Number

Sometimes when installing new modules into IIS (7.5 in this case) they are not "supported" for this version of IIS but you need to install them anyway. You also don't necessarily have an alternative to you just need to go with it :) . Here is a

Updating Resource Group references for Azure Key Vault and App Service Certificate.

Updating Resource Group references for Azure Key Vault and App Service Certificate.

Created a wild card SSL certificate in the Azure Portal. The process was very painless and this tutorial [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-configure-ssl-certificate/] online describes the process in great detail. Just on update from me on it is that you'll have to wait a little

Quick Access view causing Explorer.exe to crash.

Quick Access view causing Explorer.exe to crash.

Recently I came across a very annoying problem when opening file explorer it would crash, instantly . Particularly when it was loading the Quick Access view ie: the default explorer.exe file location. The simple fix for this, I discovered the issue is already on the Microsoft Forums [http://answers.microsoft.

Entity Framework Tricks

Entity Framework

Entity Framework Tricks

Deploying a database via EF Code First Migrations from the commandline Here are some handy powershell tools for updating a database when using Entity Framework Migrations. Normally I have EF setup so that the db is created or updated when the site (usually a web app in Azure these days)

Handy Git Commands

Handy Git Commands

Here is a handy list of git command I use daily to make me more productive. Clean your local workspace git checkout . git clean -f Get a list of branches ordered by most recent commit git for-each-ref --sort=committerdate refs/heads/ Get a list of conflict files (after the last