This post is the first in a two part series on React JS. Since there are already tons of great docs and training material for React, the focus of these posts is to highlight some common design decisions and Azure ecosystem build/deploy problems that folks new to React typically run into.
This particular post focuses on the key decisions you should make before you start writing any code.
Edit: Part 2 now is available here.
Continue readingEarlier this year the Microsoft Identity Platform team shared new guidance that recommends using the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code flow for browser based web applications. The reason for this is that new browser security changes are going to cause problems for the commonly used implicit grant flow pattern.
Although I found plenty of great code samples and quickstart material for using the authorization code flow with graph API, it took me a while to figure out how to use it against an ASP.NET Core Web API. The goal of this post is to provide an end-to-end setup guide with source code for the protected web API resource scenario that uses RBAC roles.
Continue readingOne of the most common ways to implement PowerShell error handling is to set the ErrorActionPreference variable (or ErrorAction parameter) to Stop, and capture these errors with a surrounding try/catch block.
This works perfectly fine in many situations. However one problematic use is when a cmdlet needs to write multiple unique errors to the error stream. One specific example is New-AzResourceGroupDeployment, which can write multiple validation or deployment errors if they are encountered.
If you use the standard try/catch approach here then the cmdlet stops after writing the first error (by design– because you set the action preference). This post provides some tips to handle this scenario to ensure you don’t miss the additional error stream records.
Continue readingIn this post we will do a complete walkthrough for configuring a new continuous integration (CI) pipeline that builds PowerShell modules in Azure DevOps Pipelines. Formalizing your PowerShell build steps into a CI pipeline helps enforce code quality standards and setup a fully automated process for publishing.
I have covered some of these pieces individually in other posts; for example my module starter kit and linting configurations. However a full post is helpful to tie all the pieces together in a detailed guide.
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