Jaliya Udagedara — Software engineer and technical blogger sharing practical insights, fixes, and deep dives on Azure, .NET, cloud services, and developer tooling, with a strong focus on real-world problem solving and Microsoft ecosystem technologies.
40 articles from this blog
A guide on using Studio 3T, a MongoDB GUI tool, with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, highlighting features like SQL query translation.
A guide to troubleshooting authentication issues with DefaultAzureCredential during local development for Azure services.
Guide on configuring Azure Functions to run locally with production app settings, explaining environment variables and project file adjustments.
A technical guide on disabling the sign-up option in a Microsoft Entra External ID user flow using the Microsoft Graph Beta API and PowerShell.
Explains how to generate SAS URIs for Azure Blobs using DefaultAzureCredential and User Delegation Keys in .NET.
Fixing Azure DevOps pipeline error where Azure Functions Core Tools can't find .NET 10 installed by UseDotNet@2 task on Windows agents.
Explains a cross-platform quirk in .NET's Uri.TryCreate method where a relative path string is treated as a valid absolute URI on Linux but not on Windows.
Guide to running legacy ASP.NET Core 3.1 applications inside a .NET 9 container, covering dependency fixes and DevOps pipeline updates.
Explores new features in EF Core 10.0 for managing multiple named global query filters and selectively ignoring them.
EF Core 10.0 introduces partial updates for JSON columns using ExecuteUpdate/ExecuteUpdateAsync, with examples for SQL Server.
Explains how to fix missing custom logs in .NET Isolated Azure Functions by adjusting the default Application Insights logging filter.
A tutorial on enabling OpenAPI/Swagger support in .NET Isolated Azure Functions, covering package installation and attribute configuration.
EF Core 10.0 adds support for the new JSON data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling querying and storage of JSON documents.
EF Core 10.0 introduces a new ComplexProperty() method for mapping complex types, providing an alternative to the older Owned Entities approach.
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2026 Public Preview with performance improvements, new features, and the new Insiders channel.
Explains how to implement custom validation in ASP.NET Core 10.0 Minimal APIs using ValidationAttribute and IValidatableObject.
ASP.NET Core 10.0 introduces built-in validation support for Minimal APIs, covering route parameters, query strings, headers, and request bodies.
A technical guide on using HTTP actions in Azure Logic Apps to POST multipart/form-data with files and fields.
A guide on handling multipart/form-data in Azure Durable Functions HTTP Orchestration Triggers using ASP.NET Core integration.
A guide on using Azure Automation Python Runbooks to query and interact with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, including package setup and connection code.
