Author Archives: Gaston
Integrating and Testing a Secured SOAP Client with Dependency Injection
In this blog I will show you how to call a SOAP service from a WebAPI back-end.
The solution needs to be stable and robust.
The necessary parameters (client_id, secret, …) will come from Configuration.
All the necessary components will be registered in the IoC container such that using the SOAP service only requires injecting one interface. Continue reading
Calling a Secured SOAP Service from ASP.NET Core WebAPI (WSDL+ WCF)
In this blog I will show you how to call a SOAP service from a WebAPI back-end.
The solution needs to be stable and robust.
The necessary parameters (client_id, secret, …) will come from Configuration.
All the necessary components will be registered in the IoC container such that using the SOAP service only requires injecting one interface. Continue reading
Evolving ZipMatch — from a simple function to a LINQ-style implementation
In this blog we are going to find the matching items in 2 sorted collections. The algorithm is simple and effective. I will show you how to implement it in C# and make it generically (pun intended) available to all … Continue reading
Using an F# DSL to generate C# code
My current project is for a company called HDMP (The website is in Dutch / French). We make software for medical practitioners. I am working on a service that communicates with web services created by the Belgian government. The services … Continue reading
Sending notifications with Corona updates to thousands of doctors
During the Corona crisis, our (Belgian) government sends out regular updates for medical professionals. I created a small UWP app that will notify all the subscribed doctors when new information is available. The doctors can download and install this application … Continue reading
In many of my posts I talk about how to perform specific actions and tasks using MS Azure. If you don’t have an account yet, here is how you can create a test account easily. Continue reading
How to use Microsoft Azure Key Vault
Introduction In this post I will describe how to set up and use an Azure key vault to store your secret values. Sometimes we see secrets like storage keys and connection strings written as literals in the code of a … Continue reading
Creating multiple identical VMs in Microsoft Azure
In this post I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs. Continue reading
Why would you use Common Table Expressions?
Introduction In this article I suppose that you have a good understanding of SQL already. I will introduce some concepts very briefly before moving on to Common Table Expressions. Below you can find the relevant database diagram of the database … Continue reading
