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Rick van den Bosch

Practical lessons from 25+ years of building software.

I’m a software engineer and cloud/software architect at Microsoft, working on Cloud & AI. I speak internationally, created and host Betatalks, and explore practical AI-assisted software development.

Online, I’m rickvdbosch.

Writing since 2005

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Using Azure App Configuration in .NET 5 Functions

Azure .NET 5 Functions #

A lot has been said about .NET 5 support for Azure Functions. The most important news: it is now officially supported! 🥳 To enable running Azure Functions with .NET 5, the new Isolated Model enables Functions to run as an out-of-process language worker separate from the Azure Functions runtime. This way you’ll have full control over the Function’s dependencies on one hand, and new features like a middleware pipeline on the other. For an awesome write-up about everything around this, check out Oscar van Tol’s post Azure Functions in .NET 5 and beyond.

Azure Static Web Apps: UPDATE

After my two previous posts Azure Static Web Apps: a first look and Azure Static Web Apps: quirks & gotchas, let’s have an updated look at ASWA in this post.

Support for new languages 👩🏻‍💻 #

Announced at Microsoft Ignite this year, Blazor and C# APIs now supported in Azure Static Web Apps. This enables .NET developers to build and deploy full stack .NET applications with Static Web Apps.

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