Workaround – Decoding the code

Introduction

Many times in your life, you will have the situation when your server must push information to your customer. When you are not limited to HTTP/HTTPS you can setup TCP/IP connection and problems are solved. Unfortunately we are living in a world dominated by HTTP protocols. When you ask someone how to address such a challenge you can hear from your colleagues that Webhook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook) is a solution for your problem. My goal is to convince you to try to think outside the box and focus on long pooling mechanisms.

Azure Functions V3 and disappearing function.json files

By Mariusz Krzanowski

On January 29, 2020

In Solutions

Introduction

When I started migration process to Azure Function 3.0 of an existing project, I have discovered small, but painful inconvenience. The problem was that all function.json files were permanently removed from output folder just before Azure Function Tools func.exe was started. I have to confess it was very annoying. There were suggestions e.g. on StackOverflow or other sites to run PowerShell which copies files later – after emulator is started, but it was not a solution I like.

Exception filters to catch first thrown exception

By Mariusz Krzanowski

On January 6, 2020

In Solutions

Introduction

This post is inspired by the book ‘C# in depth’ by Jon Skeet and presentation ‘Internals of Exceptions’ made by Adam Furmanek. The topic I want to focus on is stack unwinding when an exception is caught.

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Tag: Workaround

Long polling as a cure for message push mechanism

Introduction

Azure Functions V3 and disappearing function.json files

Introduction

Exception filters to catch first thrown exception

Introduction