Blog on Microsoft Technologies esp. IoT
Blog on Microsoft Technologies esp. IoT
Site Calendar
H O M E
2025
May
April
- GitHub Copilot v Documentation: How far can you go with Copilot
- Azure Devops: Jekyll Deployment - Script for Direct Deployment updates V2 Latest Files Only
- Jekyll: Gem File Build issues - Resolved
March
- IoT: And all that stuff
- AI: Monkeys on a typewriter
- Blockly: Meta-Info and Session
- Blockly: New Azure Deployment
- Azure Devops: Jekyll Deployment - Script for Direct Deployment updates
- Azure Devops: Jekyll Deployment Issue - A workaround.
- Azure Devops: Recap Creating this Blog Site
- Blockly: Switch Block
- Blockly: Version Update
February
January
2024
October
- ConsoleTextFormat: Menus
- ConsoleTextFormat: Formatting Console App Text - Part 2
- ConsoleTextFormat: Formatting Console App Text - Part 1
September
- Softata: Blockly Session
- Softata: Open AI and Enums with Blockly & Swagger Part 3
- Softata: Open AI and Enums with Blockly & Swagger Part 2
- Softata: Open AI and Enums with Blockly & Swagger Part 1
- Softata: A Quick Start with Blazor
- Softata: A Quick Start with Blockly
- C++ Coding: const char * data type
- App Settings for a .NET Console App: Save, Retrieve and Validate IPAddress and Port
August
- Softata: Added Actuator Class - Relay
- Softata: Cloud 2 Device Messages 2
- Softata: Arduino Startup Options
- Sample RPi Pico Sketches: Flash Setting and OTA Updates
July
- Softata: Towards OTA Over The Air Sketch Updates - 5 (KISS Principle)
- Softata: Towards OTA Over The Air Sketch Updates - 3 (OTA Implementation)
- Softata: Towards OTA Over The Air Sketch Updates - 2 (Serial Debug Msgs)
- Softata: Towards OTA Over The Air Sketch Updates - 1 ((OTA example)
- Microsoft MVP: I've been renewed again.
- Azure Pipelines: Jekyll Site Build failure - Part 2
June
May
- Softata: A 74HC595 Shift Register Class
- Note to Self: Handling a Pull Request
- Arduino: Build Issue - Multiple definition of an entity
- Softata: Latest NetCoreBlockly Updates
- Softata: Running Blockly on local Pico from Azure Softata API
April
- Softata: Blockly Functions
- Softata: Blockly 101
- Softata: Blockly ... The Holy Grail
- Softata: Meadow ... A work in progress
- Aged Care Independent Living: Monitoring Devices
March
- Softata: Many ways to skin a cat
- Softata: An ASP.NET Core API Interface - 2
- Softata: An ASP.NET Core API Interface - 1
- Softata - Adding a new display: 7. Epilog
- Softata - Adding a new display: 6. Run the Display
- Softata - Adding a new display: 5. Simple Test
- Softata - Adding a new display: 4. Class Code
- Softata - Adding a new display: 3. Arduino "Hooks"
- Softata - Adding a new display: 2. The Software Specifications
- Softata - Adding a new display: 1. The Display Hardware
- Softata: About (Latest)
- Softata: InterCore Communication
January
- Softata: Adding a new device
- Softata: Console app - Displays
- Softata: Console app - Sensors
- Softata: Console App - Serial-GPS
- Softata: Grove Actuator Class API
- Softata: Arduino Issues
- Softata: Grove Display Class API
- Softata: Grove Sensor Class API
- Softata: Analog Class API
- Softata: Grove Class
- Softata: Digital Commands
- Softata: Service Commands - 3
- Softata: Service Commands - 2
- Softata: Service Commands - 1
- Softata: Architecture
2023
December
November
October
- GPS: What3Words Mapping - 1
- GPS: IOT Hub Mapping App
- Blazor Server Development: Viewing on a phone
- Wilderness Labs: About Project Lab V3
September
August
July
- Jekyll: Rendering on a Mobile Part 2
- Jekyll: Twitter Card Image Caching
- Azure DevOps: Notifications
- Jekyll: Display Liquid code in a Post
- Jekyll: Rendering on a Mobile Part 1
June
May
- Entity Framework: Duplicate Record Linq Queries
- Club Record Certificate: Part 4 ... A Derived Class
- Club Record Certificate: Part 3 ... The Alternative Certificate Page
- Club Record Certificate: Part 2 ... The Main Certificate Page
- Club Record Certificate: Part 1 ... Athlete Selection
April
- Nuget updates: With errors such as NU1605 and NU1301
- Entity Framework Group Summing: 4 - Stored Procedures Part B
- Entity Framework Group Summing: 3 - Stored Procedures Part A
- Entity Framework Group Summing: 2 - ExecuteRawSql
- Entity Framework Group Summing: 1 - Use Linq
March
- Aged Care Independent Living: Introduction
- Jekyll: Blog Site Updates - Grouping Query
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: A Bridge too far ...
- Monkeys on a typewriter coding
February
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Addendum
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: The Src Lib
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Device Twin Prop PATCH
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: GET Device Twin Doc
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Direct Methods
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: CD Mesages
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: About SDK Implementation
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Tools
- Jekyll: Blog Site Updates
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Telemetry
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: The Repository with Extended Features.
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Azure SDK for C Arduino Setup
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Pico W Setup with Arduino
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Get Connection Strings ... Scripts
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: IoT Hub Connection Strings
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Create an IoT Hub and Device
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Musings
- RPI-Pico-Arduino-AzSDK: Context
2022
July
- Blazor Helpers Server App: Dynamic CSS
- Blazor Helpers Server App: Reverse Reverse Engineering with Entity Framework
- Blazor Helpers Server App: .NET 6 and Telerik V3 Controls Upgrades
- Blazor Helpers Server App: Version 2 - Club Records
April
- Jekyll: Layouts as a Template
- Grove Beginners kit: Arduino Lesson 2 Press Button
- Grove Beginners kit: Arduino Lesson 1b Download program to board
- Grove Beginners kit: Arduino Lesson 1a Flashing LED
March
- C# Async Threading in Console Apps
- Google Home Windows Bridge: To Azure IoTHub
- Jekyll: Embed Videos
- Google Home Windows Bridge: GPIO Hardware
- Google Home Windows Bridge: Update on DNETCoreGPIO
- Nuget Packages 101: Including a README
- Nuget Packages 101: Packaging a Console App
February
- Google Home Windows Bridge: An approach to Hardware
- Google Home Windows Bridge: Using Google Home
- Google Home Windows Bridge: TRIGGERcmd
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Mobile Number Check
January
2021
December
- Meltdown: Addendum Recoding for Version 2.1
- Meltdown: Send Mail and Nuget Package
- Meltdown: CS201 Exrecises
November
- Meltdown: Coding
- Meltdown: Blazor Test App
- Meltdown: Console Test App
- Meltdown: Schema
- Meltdown: Intro - A Simple Markup Parser
October
August
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: The Cloud
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 10 - Sensing-movement
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 9 - Measuring Surrounding Air Pressure
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 8 - Detecting Surrounding Temperature & Humidity
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 7 - Displaying Data on an OLED
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 6 - Sound Sensitive LED Light
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 5 - Light Intensity
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 4 - Making the Buzzer go BEEP
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 3 - Controlling the Frequency of the Blink
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 2 - Pressing Button to light up LED
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Download program to board
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Lesson 1 - Flashing LED
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Setup
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: The Hardware
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Plug and play unboxing
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Install Codecraft
- Grove Beginner Kit For Arduino: Codecraft Intro and Index
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 8. Search based upon BIB No. or Name
July
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 10
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 9
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 8
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 7
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 6
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 5
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 4
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 3
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 2
- Redirect to Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino: Lesson 1
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 7. async EF calls from an Entity Property
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 6. A Recursive Entity Group Property - Team Leader
June
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 5. Many to Many Entity Relationships
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 4. Members Table - AddNewMember Code
- Blazor Helpers App members: 3. Some Reflection with the Members Table
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 2. Nuances with adding a Members Table
- Blazor Helpers App Members: 1. Overview of adding a Members Table
May
April
- Azure Static Web App: A Simple Static Content App
- An Azure Static Web App with EF: Posts in this series
- An Azure Static Web App with EF: 4. Cascade and SetNull Deletions
- An Azure Static Web App with EF: 3. Entity Framework Core Implementation
- An Azure Static Web App with EF: 2. Index of the Repository
- An Azure Static Web App with EF: 1. Multiple Entities and LocalStorage
March
February
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Onforwarding SMS
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Receiving SMS
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Sending SMS
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Setting up
- Blazor Helpers App Twilio: Discussion about using SMS
- Blazor Helpers App: More on Includes with Selections
- Azure Devops Jekyll Site: Ruby Version 3 issue
- Blazor Helpers App: Entity Update
- Blazor Helpers App: Cascade Delete
- Blazor Helpers App: Add Some Data
- Blazor Helpers App: EF Migrations and CRUD Operations
January
- Blazor Helpers App: Entity Framework Summary
- Blazor Helpers App: An Entity Framework Primer
- Blazor Helpers App: Entity Framework Basics
- Blazor Helpers App: Overview of a Database oriented App
2020
December
November
October
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - A Wrap Up
- Publishing Blazor to Desktop IIS
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - Some Hacks ... and a Solution.
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - GPIO and Bindings App
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - App for Monitoring an IoT Hub submissions
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - A Simulated IoT Hub Device
- Blazor-IoT: Azure IoT Hub Interaction using Blazor on a RPi - Intro
September
August
- Blazor How To: And now for a Rap Up
- Blazor How To: Http Delete Server File Management
- Blazor How To: Upload a Zip file.
- Blazor How To: Zip file creation on Server and Download to Client
- Blazor How To: A Client Page for Viewing a Folder on the Server
- Blazor How To: A Client Control for Viewing Images
- Blazor How To: A Client Control for Viewing Markdown Content
- Blazor How To: A Client Text View Control including Copy and Downloads functions
- More on creating this blog site
- Blazor How To: WASM Http File Get - Server Response
- Blazor How To: WASM Http File Get - Client Request
- Blazor How To: Folding Content
- Blazor: A Recursive Client Folde Component - 2
- Blazor: A Recursive Client Folder Component - 1
- Blazor: Scanning files on the Server
- Jekyll-Markdown: Embedding Animated Gifs
- Blazor How To: Spinners
- Blazor: A Generic App for displaying Sample Apps
- .NET Core: iot Repository
- .NETCore: appsettings.json
- Blazor: SPA Template
July
- Blazor: A WASM app for presenting Sample Apps from an API Repository
- Nuget Packages 101: Creating and using a local Nuget Package
- Blazor: On a Raspberry Pi
- Blazor: Some activities
June
- Blazor: More on App Options
- Blazor How To: Server App with GPS
- Blazor: A Server only Web App
- Blazor Gym Booking App: WebAssembly App - The Projects
- Blazor Gym Booking App: Musings - Data
- Blazor Gym Booking App: Musings - Getting Started plus Authentication
- Blazor Gym Booking App: A Booking App for post COVID-19
May
- PowerShell: Porting from a System.Windows.Forms Form
- az-iothub-ps: Azure IoT Hub PowerShell V3.0.4 Features
- az-iothub-ps: Previous Info
- Azure Sphere Projects: BME280 Sensor (Part 3) IoT Central
- PowerShell: Header Metainfo
- PowerShell: show-image A PS Function to Display an Image in a Windows Form
- PowerShell: Functions for a quick user response
- PowerShell: A Function to download and run an Installer
- This blog site construction: Site Calendar Page
- PowerShell Code Signing of scripts
- Azure Sphere Projects: Azure Sphere Getting Started
- Azure Sphere Projects: DPS and IOT Hub v IOT Central with az-iothub-ps-1
April
- Azure Sphere: Resources
- Azure Sphere Projects: az-iothub-ps Extensions
- Azure Sphere Projects: BME280 Sensor (Part 2)
- GitHub is now free for Teams
- Azure Sphere Projects: BME280 Sensor
- az-iothub-ps: Device Provisioning Service scripts added
- Azure Sphere: Trying out some of the Samples
- Azure Sphere Sample Projects V2
- And now for something completely different: Azure Sphere GA, Security and a 2Do List
March
- .Net Interactive and Try .Net
- .Net Core on IoT: Some Deployment key points
- Now for some HW on the RPi: IoT Hub Device Streaming Apps that Send & Recv real data - 2 more apps
- Now for some HW on the RPi: IoT Hub Telemetry App that sends real data
- Now for some HW on the RPi: A Sampler from the GitHub Repository dotnet/io
- .NET Core on IoT: It's now even easier. Enter names on command line.
- .NET Core on IoT: You can now fully automate Group-Hub-Device creation
February
- .NET Core on IoT: Using the az-iothub-ps script
- .NET Core on IoT: Remote Publishing to the RPI
- .NET Core on IoT: One more way of doing this - Background
- .NET Core on IoT: Using the PS Script to run Quickstarts on RPi (Raspbian)
- .NET Core on IoT: Using the PS Script to run Quickstarts on RPi (IoT-Core) - Simpler
- .NET Core on IoT: Using the PS Script to run Quickstarts on RPi (IoT-Core)
- .NET Core on IoT: Az-IoTHub-PS ... The IoT Hub Quickstart Apps
- .NET Core on IoT: Use the PS Script to set up .NET Core
- .NET Core on IoT: Fast tracking IoT Hub Creation with PS
January
- .NET Core on IoT: On Windows Subsystem for Linux
- .NET Core on IoT: Getting started on Raspbian
- .NET Core on IoT: Getting started on Win 10 IoT Core
- Some PowerShell Functionality
- .NET Core on IoT: Options for the RPi
- .NET Core on IoT: Some key facts
- This blog site construction: Latest
- Australia alight again
2019
December
- .NET Core on IoT: Quickstart Apps
- .NET Core on IoT: Overview
- AzureAdventCalendar: Azure IoT Hub Super Quickstart in 5 minutes!
August
- A Multifaceted User Control for displaying Application Settings
- Saving and Loading C# Application Settings through Reflection
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: App Extensions Poll
July
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: App Functionality Checklist
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: How to use the Updated UWP-Xaml app
June
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: Under the hood-The API Options
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: Under the hood-The API
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: The UWP-XAML app V1
- AziothubDeviceStreaming: Azure IoT Hub Device Streaming - A Reusable and Extensible Library
May
March
- A Brief History in IoTime
- Azure Sphere Sample Projects
- My Azure Sphere Scripts
- Jekyll: Next and Previous Post Links
- HSQLDB.Net: .Net interface for HSQLDB Database
- AzureIoT-CoreUtils
- ClickOnce Hosting on Azure
- Create a Blob Storage Static Web Site with SSLs enabled