Taswar Bhatti
The synonyms of software simplicity
Category: .NET
Powershell-dpapi

I wanted to store some data into registry but how do I store it such that it is secure for my application to read later on. Well there is a way using Powershell to store data into Registry using DPAPI which uses the machine key to store the information. As you know the only way […]

Azure functions

I wanted to try out Azure Functions to see if I can serve html data from Azure Functions that I get from another third party site. As in, if I use RestSharp and call another site from my Azure Function, extract its content and just display it as output to html. This can come in […]

Azure functions

Was playing around with Azure functions and thought I would write a quick blog post on how to use Azure functions to read a text file and send an email out to me daily. Basically I went with a joke a day idea. So lets get started with writing some of the awesome code 🙂 […]

elastic search

For the past year I have been evaluating and working and even presented ElasticSearch, and I thought it would be good to showcase a series of article on ElasticSearch for .NET Developers. What it brings to the table when developing a software solution. I also did a talk on ElasticSearch at Montreal DevTeach, if you […]

satazureday

I had the opportunity to speak at satazureday Azure Saturday here in Ottawa last week, and went through the topic of Azure Key Vault. I also had a co-presenter to share the talk with; an upcoming public speaker Petrica Mihai. He created most of the slides and the demo code in C# 🙂 You can […]

Taswar Bhatti - Cloud Design Patterns

This week I gave a talk on Cloud Design Patterns at the Ottawa .NET Community. I wanted to share the sides here and will most likely write on articles on the topic using real world examples. Samples in C# and node.js, in AWS and Azure. For the talk I went through, what Cloud Design Patterns […]

Redis

Redis Lua Scripting Redis provides a way to extend its functionality on the server side by providing support for Lua Scripting. If you are coming from a relational database world, you already know that you can use Stored Procedures to extend functionality of your relational database. Now, you may also know that some people do […]

Taswar Bhatti Talk on MS Bot Framework

In May 2017 I did a talk in Ottawa .NET User Group on Introduction to Microsoft Bot Framework, it was a interesting turnout and lots of conversation on what a bot can do for a business and how to use them. Below you will find the slides for my talk on Microsoft Bot Framework. The […]

Taswar Bhatti Xamarin Dev Days

Last week I did a presentation on Xamarin Dev Days here in Ottawa, the presentation was on Introduction to Xamarin, unfortunately my demo did not work, the demo gods were not with me that day 🙁 The demo code uses Microsoft Cognitive Service Bing Search to search for images to display on a mobile phone. […]

Redis

Redis provides a way to use Pipeline Batching to send messages to Redis but first we must understand that Redis uses tcp request response protocol, some may know it as client server model. If you are coming from a web http world, you will have no issue understanding client server, where the browser acts like […]

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