azure-functions

A new feature (preview) in Azure Functions is API Definition. This feature allows you to use the OpenAPI specification (aka Swagger) to document the functionality of your functions and/or endpoints. Checkout John Papa & I talk about using Swagger for ASP.NET Core on Pluralsight in Play by Play - Understanding API Functionality Through Swagger The documentation and a walkthrough of Creating OpenAPI 2.0 (Swagger) Metadata for a Function App (Preview) are available on docs.microsoft.com. Testing your function After you have your api defined, copy the endpoint in the API Definition URL box to use to import into Postman. Open Postman, click the Import button. Select Import from Link and paste your definition endpoint. Postman reads...

When sitting down to get started on a project, the start and stops of setting this and that up can be a non-starter. Sometimes, ok almost always, I just want check in code and have the build and deploy just happen. I'm a very big fan of CLI tooling. If I can fire up a bash prompt and get started, you've won me over. The .NET Core team continues to improve the command line tooling experience for all platforms with dotnet new and if you're pushing your apps to the cloud; the Azure 2.0 CLI is on point for getting stuff done. Azure CLI - The Azure CLI 2.0 is Azure's new command line experience for managing Azure...