I upgraded this website to .NET9 at the weekend. That was straightforward, I just had to update Visual Studio 2022 to the latest version and then upgrading the site amounted to just changing the target in its project file. I also tried upgrading the associated function, but it seems (as too often with Microsoft releases) that .NET 9 is not yet really fully available. It doesn't work with functions yet!

I have just upgraded this website from .NET 7 to .NET 8, and also the associated Azure function from .NET 6 in-process to .NET 8 isolated. Upgrading an app service (website) from .NET 7 (or 6) to .NET 8 is pretty straightforward and essentially just involves changing the target framework ...

As mentioned in this article, updating this from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0 was quite straightforward.

A quick note to warn users of Microsoft's Azure functions: I have quite often found that the Monitor facility misses out showing some recent function runs. Querying the Application Insights logs for traces, requests and exceptions is more reliable.

A quick blog post about migrating from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0. I have found this reasonably straightforward in a number of projects, with some exceptions: There is still no .NET 5.0 version of Azure functions so they have to remain .NET Core 3.1 for the time being in ...

I follow various barristers, solicitors and police accounts on Twitter and have been aware for some time that the criminal justice system in the UK has been subjected to underfunding for many years. At times, I'm told that working conditions are unsanitary or even unsafe. I have set up a ...

This shows an embedded slideshow from my Smugmug site of my work on various software projects.

On 6 April 2020 Microsoft released new versions of Nuget Packages to enable developers to read and write to Azure Storage accounts. For example, to connect to blobs (binary large objects, typically images or files), use the new Azure.Storage.Blobs Nuget package. (e.g. I have just used version 12.4.1). Example of ...

For those with a developer/techie interest, I have recently updated this site to use ASP.NET Core 3.1. ButterCMS is used as a headless CMS engine, and I have added Telerik Kendo UI for ASP.NET Core controls which I aim to use for some more data based future posts. An Azure ...

Set up a custom dashboard showing the length of your queues One of the common use cases for an Azure function is to run on a timer to check the status of one or more Azure queues. You can do this very easily via an Azure v2 function because these ...