This post is me having a conversation with an AI called ChatGPT, using it as a time saving tool for writing code. I’d been thinking about some code I needed to write in LIFTI. I knew what I wanted it to do and how I was going to implement it, but as an old friend once told me “Just because you know how to …

The Azure CLI is my preferred way of working with Azure from the command line - I love the discoverability of the commands. az --help is always a great reminder of the root commands and I can keep applying --help as I work my down the various levels - it’s much easier to remember than all the various Az …

LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub The Visual Studio Go To Symbol feature is smart enough that if you miss out letters it can still match with pretty good accuracy: Now that LIFTI support wildcard matching (and fuzzy matching too!) I thought this would be a good …

If you are using HTTP trigger bindings and are relying on keys to secure them using AuthorizationLevel.Function, you might want a way verify that you haven’t accidentally left one of them exposed as AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous. With a bit of reflection you can accomplish this in a unit test (I’m using the …

If you’ve ever written entries in a .gitignore file, you’ve written a glob. They can be simple, e.g. *.so matching all files with the so file extension, or a more complex, e.g. **/bar/*.cs matching files with the cs extension in folders called bar anywhere in the search path. This is very different to the …

As of Update 3, Visual Studio 2013 now has support for Application Insights built in, so I thought I’d have a play with it again. Right now, my primary focus is adding instrumentation to a Windows 8 Store app I’m working on. I’d tried to do it with the previous Application Insights release (which was in preview), but …

I found that a solution of mine was still referencing the Microsoft.Bcl.Build nuget project, and as I was using Visual Studio 2013, I figured it was no longer needed, so I removed it. After doing this, some of the projects refused to compile, reporting the error: This project references NuGet package(s) that are …

@Colly_Mc_K asked me on twitter (and in my poorly moderated comments feed – sorry, Colly!) if it was possible to use DynaCache with SimpleInjector. Although I’ve used SimpleInjector a bit before, I hadn’t actually tried it with DynaCache. It turns out that the sample code for Ninject translates fairly well - here’s a …

I was playing around with Visual Studio 2013 and Entity Framework 6 in an MVC 5 application recently, and was impressed with the level of support that is provided out of the box for oAuth. If you create a new ASP.NET MVC 5 site with the Individual User Accounts authentication option and follow all the instructions on …