PowerShell script: ConvertFrom-SiteMap
The other day I needed to get the URLs for all pages in my blog for some PowerShell scripting I wanted to do. Like most websites this blog has a sitemap and I wanted to use that as a source. As I...
View ArticleCreate Virtual Applications and Directories in your Azure Web App using ARM...
When I start on a project that uses Azure resources, one of the first things I do is build the infrastructure and automate the deployment using VSTS or TFS. In this post I‘ll explain how you can extend...
View ArticleAdd secrets to your Azure Key Vault using ARM templates
Azure Key Vault is a great resource to store your secrets like passwords, connection strings, certificates, etc. and access them programmatically. A great feature is to add or update your secrets...
View Article“Missing” Azure APIs when adding permissions to an Azure AD app
When I recently was configuring an Azure AD application I couldn’t assign the delegated permissions for an Azure SQL Database. It did cost me a full day to find out the Azure Portal user interface has...
View ArticleAdding Application Logging (Blob) to a Azure Web App Service using PowerShell
The other day I wanted to configure Application Logging on Blob Storage for a Web App Service and found out this needs a SAS URL. And this is something an ARM template can’t provide for you. In this...
View ArticleBing for business – Part 1: Branding
At the Ignite conference keynote Microsoft announced Bing for business. Winvision is one of the partners participating in the current preview. With the public announcement of Bing for business, I’m now...
View ArticleBing for business – Part 2: People search
This will be my second post about Bing for business: “the new intelligent search experience for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which uses AI and the Microsoft Graph to deliver more relevant search...
View ArticleTechDays 2017: sharing my slides
Today I presented a session, in Dutch, titled Gebruik Azure Key Vault in je applicaties en zorg dat niemand achter je geheimen komt during the TechDays 2017 event. The presentation is about using Azure...
View Article‘docker run’ throws “exec user process” errors
When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, there weren’t any solutions. But luckily some...
View ArticleWordCamp Nijmegen 2018: sharing my slides
This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure. I’m sharing my Dutch slides here, and soon I hope to add the recording for...
View ArticleARM Template User-defined Functions: Build a Storage Account Connection String
When working with ARM Templates, chances are you have set a value that was a Storage Account Connection String. For example as the value of an appsetting, or as a secret in Azure Key Vault, which I did...
View ArticleAdvanced Lockdown Lecture: OAM & Dapr
These times should not prevent us from sharing knowledge and keep learning about great new technologies. For this, Info Support organized the lockdown lectures. I was honored to take part in this...
View ArticleLink an Azure Web App to a Container Registry using ARM templates
Using Docker images for your Azure web app is not brand-new functionality. But if you want to deploy your container-based web app using ARM templates and use your own Azure container registry, you...
View ArticleUsing URI’s in YAML with YamlDotNet
Recently, I was using a YAML file for storing some data for a pet project. To work with this YAML in a .NET application, I use the excellent YamlDotNet library by Antoine Aubry. One of my properties...
View ArticleUnable to find an entry point named ‘OrtGetApiBase’ in DLL ‘onnxruntime’ with...
When trying to have an application work with an ONNX model I downloaded from the Microsoft Custom Vision portal, I got the following exception: TypeInitializationException: EntryPointNotFoundException:...
View ArticleClassify a Bitmap with your downloaded Custom Vision ONNX model
The Custom Vision service is one of the Azure Cognitive Services that is provided by Microsoft. With custom vision, you can train a model with your own image data. The portal provides a Prediction API...
View ArticleTrick Bamboo’s MSTest parser when we skip running our tests
I use the MSTest Parser task in a Bamboo build plan to add a report of tests that were executed and their outcome. But sometimes you want to skip running tests. For example, you are focusing on other...
View ArticleRemove docker images from a Container Registry using PowerShell
When using a Docker Registry, like hub.docker.com, you will not often want to delete a published version of an image. You cannot know if someone, somewhere in the world is using that specific version....
View ArticleWhen your ML.net training data does not fit: ‘The asynchronous operation has...
When you have created a machine learning model, you will retrain that model when new data is available. But when I recently added a couple of images to the training set of my own ML.net model, I was...
View ArticleYAML properties as Scalar or Sequence? Or both?!
YAML is a data serialization standard that is intended to be human friendly. For example, it reduces the use of delimiters quite drastically compared to other formats like JSON. Some YAML file authors...
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