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Tidy up - Unused Project and Nuget package reference using Visual Studio 2019

If you are a Developer/Architect using Visual Studio as IDE for your development activities, this blog post will be of your interest. During the Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. As part of version 16.10 Preview 1, one of the cool features they introduced is to "Remove Unused References..." for any Projects and Nuget packages that are not in use. At the time of writing this blog post, we have Visual Studio Version 16.10.0 (official release) which includes this new feature.  As part of development, we generally get carried away and introduce new Nuget package references to your project and add new references to your Projects. By the end of development, you will not be 100% sure which are not being referenced and unused which means you will leave those unused project references in your application. Now you might be wondering what's the big deal in it since it doesn't harm. The advantage of removing unused project r
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Azure Function in a Docker Container - Part 1

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From Azure Function v2, .NET developers can now write functions using .NET Core. This means you can develop and run your Azure functions in more places (cross-platform). This opens up opportunities for running your Azure function in Docker container and taking it one step ahead by running Azure Functions on Kubernetes with KEDA  (Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling). In this blog post, we will see how to run Azure Function in Docker Container.      Now few questions arise like why do we need to run in a container, do we lose the benefit of Serverless because you will be paying only for the time your function is running based on your plan in Azure Function, etc. All these questions are valid but as soon as we enter the world of containerization and  Kubernetes  we want our application to be flexible enough to be hosted in an on-premises/cloud/hybrid environment.  With containerization now you can use Azure Functions as your event-driven host regardless of the environment.
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How to create Azure Function from OpenAPI/Swagger definition?

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In my  previous blog post , I have illustrated how to setup OpenAPI/Swagger UI for Azure Function. In this blog, post let's see how to create Azure Function from OpenAPI specification. As part of recent updates from the Azure Functions team, there was an announcement for creating Azure Function by importing OpenAPI/Swagger definition.  Prerequisites Azure Function VS Code extension or command line autorest (Microsoft's OpenAPI specification generator) npm installed npm install -g autorest Supported languages C#, Java, Python, TypeScript. Steps to create function apps from Swagger definition Install or update VS code with Azure Function extension           Navigate to Visual Studio Code à  Azure Extension under which you should be able to see the option for creating Function App as shown in the below screenshot.           Once the folder is selected u
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