Add natural language understanding to your bot - Part 2

This blog post is about adding natural language understanding to your bot. Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based API service that helps you to recognize the intent of user input and better direct the conversation flow. In the previous post I configured LUIS and in this post I will explain...


Add natural language understanding to your bot - Part 1

This blog post is about adding natural language understanding to your bot. Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based API service that helps you to recognize the intent of user input and better direct the conversation flow. To get started you need to create an Language Understanding service in Azure Portal....


Create a multi-container app using a Docker Compose to Azure App service

This post is about deploying a multi-container app to azure app service using Docker compose. To get started let us create an App Service with Docker first. In the portal, click on Create New, search for Web App and select the Web App option. In the first screen, you need...


Initialize MS SQL Server in Docker container - creating database at startup

Few days back I wrote a blog post about initializing SQL Server while running a docker-compose command. In that implementation I was using another docker image to run the migrations. In this post I am creating a dockerfile, some shell scripts and the SQL Script file which will create the...


RESTful API versioning with ASP.NET Core

This blog post will discuss about the commonly used API Versioning strategies and how to implement them in ASP.NET Core Web API. For the demo purposes I am creating an ASP.NET Core WEB API project using dotnet new webapi command. To implement versioning we need to add reference of the...


Docker compose an ASP NET Core application with SQL Server

This blog post is about containerizing an ASP.NET Core Application with SQL Server. In this blog post I will explain how to run the migrations as part of the deployment process. In this post I am building an ASP.NET Core Web API application and I have enabled Swagger for testing...


Deploying Blazor apps to Azure Static Web apps

This blog post is about how to create and deploy Blazor application to Azure Static Web Apps. Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. So for this post I built a Blazor application which generates...


Implementing Health Checks in ASP.NET Core

This blog post is about how to configure health check in ASP.NET Core. Health monitoring an important aspect in case of Micro services. It will help orchestrators to monitor and manage containers. ASP.NET Core offers health checks out of the box in the .NET Core Framework. In this post first...


ASP.NET Core Social authentication without Identity

This blog post is about how to configure and use ASP.NET Core Social Authentication without ASP.NET Core identity. In this post I am using Google Authentication provider, you can use Facebook or Twitter. Only the authentication provider and associated configuration only will change. To use Google Authentication, you need to...


How to map custom domain and SSL to Azure app service programmatically

If you’re building SAAS applications, it is a good practise to provide sub domains to tenants. If you’re using Azure VMs it is simple and straight forward. You can configure the A NAME in DNS records and create a wild card CNAME record to the domain name of your Azure...