Deploy a website with Azure virtual machines - Creating Virtual machine

This post is about how to deploy an ASP.NET Core web application in Azure Virtual machines. This is part of series where we will be discussing about setting up web server, configuring custom domains, creating and installing SSL certificate in web server and finally configuring CI / CD pipelines to...


Implementing database change notification using SignalR and Azure Functions

This post is about implementing database change notification using SignalR and Azure Functions. In this post we will using Azure Function with SQL trigger for change identification and Azure SignalR binding for notifications. Here is the basic architecture of the implementation. We will be using a simple note taking application...


Azure SQL triggers for Azure Functions

This post is about Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions. The Azure SQL trigger uses SQL change tracking functionality to monitor a SQL table for changes and trigger a function when a row is created, updated, or deleted. Changes are processed in the order that their changes were made, with...


Azure SQL output binding for Azure Functions

This post is about Azure SQL output binding for Azure Functions - this feature is preview right now. The output binding helps us to write data to SQL Server in Azure Functions. In the earlier post, we explored the Input binding which helps to read data from SQL Server. Azure...


Azure SQL input binding for Azure Functions

This post is about Azure SQL input binding for Azure Functions - this feature is preview right now. The input binding helps us to read data from SQL Server in Azure Functions. To write to SQL Server we need to use the Output binding. Azure function now offers SQL trigger...


Configure Auto Scaling in Azure App Service

This post is about configuring automatic scaling in Azure App Service. Automatic scaling is a new feature available in Azure App Service scale out configuration. The feature of automatic scaling is a novel way to expand the capacity of your web applications and App Service Plans without having to make...


Getting started with Data API builder for Azure SQL Database or SQL Server

This post is about Data API builder, which is tool helps to provide modern REST and GraphQL endpoints to your Azure Databases. By utilizing the data API builder, you can make your database objects available through REST or GraphQL endpoints, allowing you to access your data using contemporary approaches on...


Improve application startup time with EF Core compiled models

This post is about improving EF Core performance with compiled models. EF Core compiled models feature introduced in EF Core 6.0 which will provide both better startup performance, as well as generally better performance when accessing the model. This feature is very useful when you’re using very large models with...