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Add custom claims to token in Auth0

By default, the token of Auth0 does not contain any information about the user’s name. The default claim for the name would be: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2019

AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers an extra toolkit for Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 that integrates seamlessly to create projects based on AWS products.

Upload to Azure Storage with PHP

I had the wonderful task to change a 20 year old PHP software during a Lift-and-Shift migration to Azure, so that it doesn’t store files directly in the web folder anymore, but uploads them to an Azure Blob Storage.

Update Azure Storage Blob Properties with PowerShell

In the past days I uploaded a lot of files to an Azure Blob Storage using the Azure Storage Explorer.

Run MSSQL on Docker for Windows

For some time now, Microsoft has been providing various MSSQL Server versions for Docker - for Linux and for Windows. This means that spending a few hours to install MSSQL Server on your own PC is a thing of the past and is now available with Docker in a few moments.

Twitch MediatR with ASP.NET Core

Twitch

Twitch is the leading streaming platform for video games and Co.

Starting small, Twitch hosts monthly over 3.5 million streamers that can be watched over the shoulder while playing games, cooking or driving a car. This platform is therefore very well known, especially with the younger generations. More than 70% of the viewers, whose average age is 21 years, belong to the millennials. The average Twitch user already spends almost 2 hours a day on the platform to watch videos.

Fast SQL-Insert with C# and SqlBulkCopy

In .NET, there is a very fast and easy way to pump a variety of entities into an SQL database: SqlBulkCopy

Load an image into a byte-array with C#

This pretty simply snippet exports your Image into a byte-array.

1public static byte[] ToByteArray(this System.Drawing.Image image)
2{
3    using(MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
4    {
5        image.Save(memoryStream);
6        return memoryStream.ToArray();
7    }
8}

Usage:

1System.Drawing.Image myImage = .....
2
3byte[] imageAsByteArray = myImage.ToByteArray();

Hint: ImageSharp

ImageSharp uses the same signature to export bytes into a MemoryStream

Download a file with .NET

The most current and currently recommended way to download .NET Framework, .NET Standard or .NET Core files from the Internet is the HttpClient class.

Use a GoPro Hero as Webcam

The GoPro Hero series is the most popular action cam on the market. The current GoPro Hero 7 also offers USB-C, a micro-HDMI port as well WiFi and Bluetooth. However, the GoPro is just too good to have a life in a bag until I’m next on holiday. That’s why I had the idea to replace my Logitech 720p webcam with my the GoPro Hero 7.