Removing IOptions From Your Strongly Typed Configuration in Azure Functions

Want to strongly type your configuration but don’t like IOptions? Let’s take a look how to do this in Azure Functions.

April 13, 2021 · 2 min

Azure Functions Not Loading My Dependencies, What Have I Missed?

My dependencies and configuration weren’t being loaded into my new Azure Function application, what did I miss?

April 6, 2021 · 3 min

Why won't you load my configuration Azure Functions?

Loading configuration from local.settings.json didn’t work how I was expecting it to so had to extend the start up to load structured configuration from appsettings.json

March 30, 2021 · 5 min

Generating Date of Birth values for .NET5.0 Record types using AutoFixture

Ever needed to generate realistic date of birth values for your anoymous unit test data? Sick of setting the value manually and seeing your own date of birth propagate through codebases as developers copy ’n’ paste your example? Time to get AutoFixture to do the heavy lifting!

March 9, 2021 · 5 min

Default .NET 5.0 WeatherForecastController as an Azure Function

Looking into what it would take to implement the default aspnet web api template WeatherForecastController as an Azure Function.

February 23, 2021 · 4 min

Controlling The Logging Levels in Azure Functions

Looking into controlling the logging levels in Azure Functions.

February 16, 2021 · 4 min

Create Anonymous Data Object With AutoFixture From Type

Creating anonymous data using AutoFixture’s generic methods is great, but can you do it from a type?

February 2, 2021 · 3 min

AutoFixture and .NET 5.0 Record Types

Does AutoFixture and the new .NET 5 Record Types work together?

January 19, 2021 · 2 min

Debugging Dependency Injection Service Registrations in .NET 5.0

Investigating a technique on how to debug service registrations when functionality isn’t working as expected.

January 12, 2021 · 2 min

Top Level Statements and Dependency Injection in .NET 5.0

Exploring Top Level statements in .NET 5 and manually setting up and using dependency injection with the Microsoft container.

January 5, 2021 · 4 min