Writing Azure Functions in C# has traditionally been a cool mashup of DLLs, dependencies and magic while Azure orchestrated the calls for you. But in today’s .NET 5 world, we get to take the reigns back with isolated processes.
In this episode we have a look at some of the changes and benefits of running in an isolated process, and consider some of the implications of those changes as we work with input and output bindings, queues and https triggers.

For more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/dotnet-isolated-process-guide

It’s common in our application code to want to send out email notifications to users, but when we are testing locally we don’t necessarily want to actually send out emails to a real server. SMTP4Dev makes it easy to test locally with a fake SMPT server that lets you inspect the email messages that you are sending.

SMTP4Dev - https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev
MailKit - https://www.nuget.org/packages/MailKit/

Sample Code - https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/EP210_MimeKitSendEmailToSmtp4Dev

In a little bit of a departure from talking about the latest technology we explore how to take better notes. Notes that will help you not day ‘Drat, I just did this but I forget’ in future.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

When building a large SPA based application, it can be challenging to get your team on the same page regarding the UI components used to build your app. In today’s episode, Simon shows us how Storybook can help to get your team organized so you have a well documented set of components and pages to use in while building your application.

https://storybook.js.org/

A .gitnore file allows you to exclude specific files and folders from source control. Use the dotnet new gitignore command to quickly add a .gitignore to your .NET projects. Think of all the time you will save now that you don’t have to Google for a .gitignore template and copy it into your project!!

There are many great evils in the world. I can’t solve most of them but I can help you never have to see String or binary data would be truncated again

The Microsoft Identity platform is massive but don’t worry, Christos is here to help us make sense of it all. We talk about what’s new with Microsoft Identity and hear a bit about some of new features that are coming.

Microsoft Identity Platform: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/

MSAL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-overview

Microsoft.Identity.Web: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/microsoft-identity-web

425 Show: https://www.twitch.tv/425show

425 Show Discord: https://discord.com/invite/emKbg8F

IOutput Formatters in ASP.NET Core make it easy to format responses differently based on the mime types specified in the request’s Accept header. In this episode, we create a Csv Output Formatter using CsvHelper.

Output Formatters: https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/web-api/advanced/custom-formatters
CsvHelper: https://joshclose.github.io/CsvHelper/
Sample Repo: https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/EP204_CsvOutputFomatter

In this episode we take a look at doing production debugging with the OzCode Production Debugger and see how it can be used to debug production problems as they occur.

https://oz-code.com/ozcode-production-debugger

Azure Functions using Bearer token is clumsy. For some auth providers, you can enable App Service Authentication in the Azure Portal but that only works for the deployed version of your app which makes testing locally difficult and clumsy.

In this episode, we look at the AzureFunctions.OidcAuthentication library which makes it easy to validate JWT Tokens from a variety of OIDC providers like Auth0, Azure AD B2C, and Okta.

GitHub: https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/AzureFunctions.OidcAuthentication

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/AzureFunctions.OidcAuthentication/

TwoWeeksReady Sample App: https://github.com/HTBox/TwoWeeksReady