net-core

Many people now use Rider as their integrated development environment editor for .NET. However, when it comes to using it for developing Azure Functions, the out-of-the-box experience is (currently) less than ideal. I say currently, because in the next update to the Azure Toolkit plugin for Rider Functions support has been added. This’ll make running and debugging function apps a breeze. Until then though, here’s how you can run a functions app from Rider....

One of the concepts worth understanding when writing a custom converter for the popular Newtonsoft JSON framework is that of the JsonToken, and the role it plays in helping you understand the JSON being read. The JsonToken documentation for Newtonsoft is relatively sparse - in part because once you understand it, it’s a relatively simple concept. Effectively, when you’re attempting to deserialise a string representation of a JSON object, such as in the ReadJson method of a custom JsonConverter, the JsonToken represents each element or component (token if you prefer) of the object as it’s deserialised....

In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can quickly create an Azure Function when using a Mac. In particular, we’ll be using the Azure Functions command line tools to create our functions app. Getting started Before you can create a function, you’ll need to install the Azure Function command line tools. But before you can continue, you need to make sure that you have installed Brew. If you’re not familiar with it, Brew is a package manager for the Mac - similar to NPM for Node....