Upgrading a .NET 6 to .NET 7 app service seems very straightforward. Upgrading Azure functions to .NET 7 looks to be a more significant change, and might require some investigation first.

When deploying code, it is important to be able to have an easy way to check that the deployment worked and that the version deployed is the one you published. This is particularly important when deploying by swapping (e.g. from stage to production): in my experience, the swaps work about ...

In the Azure portal, for Azure Functions, I've found that the Monitor section for individual subfunctions is not infrequently a bit buggy, in that it misses out some function runs, particularly for functions trigged by a timer. To check whether the function actually ran on a particular day, check the logs for the function: they are usually far more complete.

If you need to move thousands of Azure blobs, or very large ones (many GB) then you can either use AzCopy (a command line tool which you run locally), or if you want to do things programmatically, you can use the Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement library. That library is ...

By default, Azure functions timeout after 10 minutes (or 30 minutes if running in an App Service Plan, or a Premium plan). The official documentation (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-host-json#functiontimeout) says that you can increase (or reduce) this by adding a functionTimeout value to host.json. But this doesn't seem to work for a ...

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

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

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 ...

Popular self-service blog platforms like WordPress allow to you add Tag Clouds via adding what they call a widget to a sidebar. I wanted to add one to this site (which is a standard ASP.NET Core 2.2 webapp, but modified to use ButterCMS as a blog backend) and after checking ...

Below is a slideshow of some of my software work. To see each individual picture in more detail, go to https://patrickjlee.smugmug.com/Software-engineering-portfolio/ .