You will find that CosmosDB Emulator will fail, randomly, for no apparent reason doing simple things like get an instance of a container or create the database. In the world of cloud, it’s important to handle Transient Faults, or errors that are not repeatable or consistent in when the appear. They might look like this: … Continue reading Improving CosmosDB Test Automation Reliability with Retry Logic
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Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
The cosmos DB Emulator is a custom action available on the Azure DevOps portal, however, that doesn't exactly make it turnkey to use. The custom task will spin up a container running Cosmos DB, however it does so with a specific local DNS / port that you need to pipe into your test running. There … Continue reading Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
So I’ve talked about the fact that the Azure Function resource in the AzureRM provider does not support the exporting of the Key necessary to integrate Azure Functions with Azure API Management. However, I have recently employed a work around, whereby you are able to export the Azure Function Key using the Resource Group Template … Continue reading Using Terraform to Provision Microservices with Azure API Management Backed by Azure Functions
Unit Test Service Fabric Actors when Actors call other Actors
In order to be able to effectively unit test Azure Service Fabric Actors we use a NuGet package called "ServiceFabric.Mocks”. It’s truly fantastic. As the name implies it allows you to Mock all Service Fabric services, not just Actors but the Actor model has unique structure that makes it exceptionally helpful in testing. The way … Continue reading Unit Test Service Fabric Actors when Actors call other Actors
Updating Service Fabric version for an Actor: Step by Step
ONE. Upgrade Actor Projects to .NET Core 2.1 TWO. Update Remoting Provider Decorator [assembly: FabricTransportActorRemotingProvider(RemotingListenerVersion = RemotingListenerVersion.V2, RemotingClientVersion = RemotingClientVersion.V2)] THREE. Remove all references from Tests Project First remove all references to dependent projects (Actor, Actor.Interfaces, Actor.Mocks, Actor.Model). Second open the Package Manager console and run the following commands: Uninstall-Package Microsoft.ServiceFabric Uninstall-Package Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services Uninstall-Package Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services.Remoting … Continue reading Updating Service Fabric version for an Actor: Step by Step
DLLHell 2018: Upgrading Service Fabric Project from v3.1.283 to v3.2.176
I’m getting an error from each of my xUnit test projects that there is a package downgrade from Microsoft.NETCore.App from 2.0.9 to 2.0.0. I tried isolating the issue to one project so I unloaded all the test projects in my solution. Then I tried upgrading the version of .NET Core from v2.0 to v2.1. However … Continue reading DLLHell 2018: Upgrading Service Fabric Project from v3.1.283 to v3.2.176
ZXing QR Code Display in Xamarin.Forms
You can find my source code here. So Xamarin and I have this love-hate relationship. I love it because it makes it super productive for a C# developer to build iOS and Android apps with one codebase but on the other hand, when using third party libraries its an absolute confusing mess. It’s really a … Continue reading ZXing QR Code Display in Xamarin.Forms
Switching from “Azure” to “AzureRM” Terraform Backend
Terraform no longer supports “azure” as a backend. So if you have a backend configuration that makes reference to the “azure” backend provider you will get the following warning: All you need to do is change the following property in your backend configuration file: To the following: Nothing else has to change. Just re-initialize your … Continue reading Switching from “Azure” to “AzureRM” Terraform Backend
Easy Hack to get a .NET Standard REST API
Everyone’s favorite Visual Studio Feature! LINKED ITEMS! 😊 I literally generated a client using the ‘Add REST API Client’ in the .NET Framework project and the PCL project and then linked them into a .NET Standard project and neither codebases threw compiler errors. However, this is no reason for the good folks on the Visual … Continue reading Easy Hack to get a .NET Standard REST API
Generating a REST API in Visual Studio with the many flavors of .NET
I remember a time when there was just .NET. .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 etc. but all .NET. Then came Silverlight, Windows Phone Silverlight, Windows Universal-ish, Universal Windows Platform, Xamarin.xyz, .NET Core, .NET Standard. Now my head hurts. Seriously. I just want to build a WebAPI client that I can use in a … Continue reading Generating a REST API in Visual Studio with the many flavors of .NET
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