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NOV
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NOV
Make NPM Install with Legacy Peer Deps in Azure Static Web Apps Builds
After upgrading a JS library, GitHub Action for build and deploy Azure Static Web Apps blows up sky high. According to the error message. npm install command need to run with --legacy-peer-deps. However, there is no step of npm install in Azure Static Web Apps's yml file. How can we tell npm to use legacy peer deps? …
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SEP
Move CRON Expression from Hard Code to Configuration in Azure Function App
When creating Azure Function with Timer trigger, we usually write CRON expression in our function code. But when you need to dynamically adjust your timer based on business needs, you will have to update your code and redeploy the function. Let's see how we can remove the hard code CRON expression and put it into configuration that we can easily update on the Azure Portal without redeploy the code …
05
SEP
System Fonts on Azure App Service for Linux
In early this year, I am upgrading my Captcha library, the code that renders text on images blow up when running under Azure App Service for Linux. I can tell from the error message that the font I am using is not installed on Azure App Service's hosting machine. To fix this, I need to find out what fonts are there in Azure App Service for Linux. Let's see how to do it. …
02
SEP
Fix Encoding.Default.GetChars() Result Different in .NET Framework and .NET 6
When upgrading a legacy .NET Framework application to .NET 6, a custom encryption method that uses Encoding.Default.GetChars() method, which output wrong result. Let's see why and how can we fix it. …
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AUG
Get Transcription from Twitter Space using Azure Speech Service
Although Twitter Space audio recording has it's own transcription, it is sometimes incorrectly recognizing wrong languages. For example, English content are producing Chinese transcription (not translation), and not even the English transcription make sense. Let's see how we can get a correct transcription using Azure. …
07
JUL
How to Add Parameters for 'npm install' in Azure DevOps
Recently my Azure DevOps build pipeline failed because Azure is using npm 8.x, which will have issue for angular projects when running `npm install`. This is a known issue which can be solved by using `--legacy-peer-deps` or `--force` for the `npm install` command. However, Azure DevOps's npm task does not take parameters by default. Let's see how we can use these parameters in Azure DevOps. …
06
JUL
Connect to Windows VM on Azure without an RDP Client App
Sometimes, you need to connect to Windows VM on Azure, but you don't have or can't use a Remote Desktop client app on your device. Don't worry, you can still use RDP from your browser. We will be using the Windows Admin Center that is currently in preview on Azure Windows VMs. Let's see how to do it. …
16
JUN
How to Setup CS:GO Dedicated Server on Microsoft Azure
CS:GO is a popular FPS game that has been around for over 10 years. This article will show you how to set up CS:GO dedicated server on Azure using a Windows VM and Storage Account. The server will be able to let clients download custom maps from the Storage Account with FastDL. …
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FEB