In Azure your web app is written to the “d:\home\site\wwwroot” folder, and if you deploy with Visual Studio and choose “Remove additional files at destination” anything not in your project will be removed from “d:\home\site\wwwroot”. The default Continuous Integration profile on Azure DevOps does not remove files in “d:\home\site\wwwroot” but overwrites, this can get you […]
.NET Core Razor Page Email Form using SendGrid and reCaptcha
I wanted to put a “Contact Us” email form on my .NET Core App driven web site deployed on Azure. I wanted to protect it somewhat by using reCaptcha to reduce the spam emails, and I also wanted to use SendGrid rather than my own smtp server. Preparing for SendGrid SendGrid has a free plan […]
Setting Up Serilog in a .NET Core 2.2 Web App Deployed to Azure
The standard .NET Core logging is all well and good, but it doesn’t give you logging to a file out of the box. My requirements were to display the application log messages in the Visual Studio Debug window and also log them to a physical file whilst in development on my local PC, but then […]
Azure DevOps CI Pipeline Fails with .NET Core 2.2
I tried putting a test CI build from Azure DevOps (formally VSTS) to a test web site using NET Core 2.2 today, but it failed with “Packages failed to restore”. Further investigation revealed that it failed in the “_CheckForUnsupportedNETCoreVersion” step. It appears that if you are using .NET Core 2.2 as a target it will […]