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I am creating a prototype, suitable for use with the UK's Pensions Dashboard project.  Early days, but have made good progress so far!  More in due course.

A simpler way to create and query Azure Entity Functions (previously called Durable Entities): just use the built in webhooks.

Both last year and this year I took (and passed) a Microsoft exam (I suppose the equivalent of CPD - Continuing Professional Development). Last year it was Programming in C# (certification: here ), and this year it was Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (certification: here ).

The new website's search facility is of little practical use The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has recently upgraded its website, with a new look. Unfortunately, the search facility is far worse than it was before. For example, if you search for "member pledge" you currently get this result: We ...

This shows you how to add a simple Application Insights query to get your top requested pages which you can then add (pin) to an Azure dashboard.

Where to find the link for an RSS feed to this blog.

My experience so far of Visual Studio 2022: the good (AI enabled Intellicode, being able to edit and continue during debugging), the bad (some false positive errors, need to revert to Visual Studio 2019 for adding code migrations via Package Manager Console). But overall I like it.

It is relatively easy to remove the use of a Startup.cs file after converting a web project from .NET 5.0 to .NET 6.0. This post shows how I did it.

I have just updated this site from .NET 5.0 (apart from an associated Azure function which was still .NET Core 3.1) to .NET 6.0 (for both the site and the function).

Microsoft's Durable Functions (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-overview?tabs=csharp ) are a very useful tool for performing some complex tasks in a robust serverless way. But in situations where there is a large number of different tasks involved, they introduce their own overhead which can slow things down significantly. This is because if there ...