Tuesday, August 4, 2020

What do you need to be prepared for AI-900 Azure AI Fundamentals?

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI FundamentalsDisclaimer: I am not an AI engineer, and I have passed beta AI-900 just for fun. I want to share the minimum level of knowledge that is required to pass this exam. The beta exam has 53 questions. My score was 800.

It will be a small post because AI-900 is a pretty simple fundamentals exam. I know that you could download the required exam skills outline, but I want to share the minimum set of skills:

Monday, June 18, 2018

FaaS on AWS for .NET developers


Last weekend, I joined to IT Talk event series promoted one of the Lviv's company. This event was dedicated to cloud solutions for C# developers.

I have prepared the presentation about FaaS on AWS for .NET developers. There are I presented how to develop&deploy a serverless solution on Amazon. And I did a demo with C# in Visual Studio 2017.



FaaS on AWS for .NET developers from Taras Romanyk

Slides contain brief information about the theme. So anybody feels free to contact me if he/she has any questions or needs additional explanations.

You could find more photos - there.

And read info about my presentation and extra info+slided of another presentation there.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Secure ASP.NET Core Web API using API Key Authentication

I am implementing the simple web service that grants access via usual login and api login with some token. I have googled a bit for good solution but found it for asp.net mvc 5 application only (original article - Secure ASP.NET Web API using API Key Authentication – HMAC Authentication).

So it is something that helps me to do the same stuff for asp.net core that I am using for my web services.

First of all, I went through great workshop related to the various new pieces in ASP.NET Core Authorization - AspNetAuthorizationWorkshop. Also, check out the great article about Filters.

Monday, July 24, 2017

Dynamic Configuration Settings in ASP.NET Core



I read the great article about the configuration of ASP.NET Core web application - Strongly Typed Configuration Settings in ASP.NET Core. As for me, it is better than access via dictionary's keys but it is always boring to create another POCO classes. I prefer to use a dynamic object. And it is easy to replace POCO class with dynamic.

Monday, August 22, 2016

TFS 2015: deploy website to IIS without installing extra add-ons to TFS

Recently, I started to keep my sources under TFS 2015. After moving our work items I have time to pay attention to new build. Everything looks pretty simple until I tried to deploy my website to local IIS. I have found pretty simple article how to do it - Deploy ASP.NET apps to domain-joined machines using WinRM. But this way was closed for me because I didn't have permission to install add-on from the market on TFS Server. So I came back to the old and proven method with MS Build. My parameters for MS Build look like :

/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /p:DeployIisAppPath="Sites/Stage" /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=10.XXX.XXX.XXX /p:username=DOMAIN\MyUserName /p:password=MyPassword

But I didn't want to store my password in build's configuration. So I looked into TFS variables for this. After small investigation I modified a bit MS Build string:

/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /p:DeployIisAppPath="$(SiteName)" /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=10.XXX.XXX.XXX /p:username=DOMAIN\$(User) /p:password=$(Password)

And added SiteName, User and Password variables: 

Pay attention, that I set checkboxes at "Allow at Queue Time" section - it shows parameter in the dialog window during queue and set secret for Password variable. But you can't clear this field and turn off secret - in this case a developer who starts a build has to enter own credential.

So in such simple way, I added the possibility to deploy website without adding new add-ons to TFS.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Migration to ASP.NET MVC 4: Deployment.



We are developing ASP.NET MVC application. We are using a latest version of the frameworks. So I need to update a software after each framework's upgrade. It easy to do on the developer's machine: you can use web or standalone installer or nuget package.
Usual I used to run installer on the server for the previous version of ASP.NET MVC. But I noticed that installer for ASP.NET MVC 4 contains SQL Express Server and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. They are definitely not tools for the server's PC. I carried on with googling and found out that ASP.NET MVC 4 doesn't need any extra library in GAC. It requests .NET Framework (4 or 4.5) on the server and it all.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - passed.

I have successfully passed Exam 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications.

I used next sources for preparations:
From the other hand I filled problem with questions related to Azure and CSS. At least first one is topic for develop.