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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...

Immutable Storage for Azure Blob Storage

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Azure Blob Storage provides scalable, cost-efficient storage in the cloud. In general, Blob Storage holds organization data like back-ups, unstructured data, files, etc. With the Immutable Storage feature, it allows storing business-related information in the WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) state. Immutable storage feature is available in all Azure public regions. Immutable storage feature is set at the container level through an Access policy. Policies apply to all the blobs in the container, can be applied either for the new or existing container and supports all blob tiers (hot, cold, and archive). Immutable storage supports two policy type: Time-based retention Legal hold Note: Immutable policy type can be applied either through Azure Portal or Azure CLI. You cannot delete or modify any files within the container when any one of the policy is enabled on the container. Immutable storage - Policy ...

Azure Function in a Docker Container - Part 2

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In my previous blog post , we looked at how to run Azure Function in a Docker Container locally using Docker desktop. In this blog post, we will see how to run the Azure Function container in Azure. Steps to run Azure Function in Container Create an Azure Function by choosing the right resource plan, resource group, a region with a storage account, and Application Insights for monitoring support. As part of the provisioning key things to support containerization, you need to choose the " Publish " option with " Docker Container " as shown below. Choose the hosting options based on your requirements like App-service plan or Premium. Once the Azure Function is provisioned navigate to the overview tab then you will be seeing a warning to configure container settings as shown below. Clicking on "Configure container settings" provides options to choose container image from Image source like  Azure Container Registry Docker hub Private Registry For our demo, I h...