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Tag Archive: C#

  • Calling U-SQL Stored Procedures with C# Code Behind

    April 22nd, 2017 in Azure, Blog, C#, U-SQL, Visual Studio

    So friends, some more lessons learnt when developing with U-SQL and Azure Data Lake. I’ll try and keep this short. Problem You have a U-SQL stored procedure written and working fine within your Azure Data Lake Analytics service. But we need to add some more business logic or something requiring a little C# magic. This is the main thing I love about U-SQL, having that C# code behind file where I can extend my normal SQL behaviour. So,…

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  • Azure Data Lake Authentication from Azure Data Factory

    December 2nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, PowerShell, Visual Studio

    rereTo set the scene for the title of this blog post lets firstly think about other services within Azure. You’ll probably already know that most services deployed require authentication via some form of connection string and generated key. These keys can be granted various levels of access and also recycled as required, for example an IoT Event Hub seen below (my favourite service to play with). Then we have other services like SQLDB that…

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  • Creating Azure Data Factory Custom Activities

    November 4th, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, JSON, Visual Studio

    When creating an Azure Data Factory (ADF) solution you’ll quickly find that currently it’s connectors are pretty limited to just other Azure services and the T within ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is completely missing altogether. In these situations where other functionality is required we need to rely on the extensibility of Custom Activities. A Custom Activity allows the use of .Net programming within your ADF pipeline.…

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  • Windows IoT UWP Tasks Tickers and Threading

    July 22nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, IoT, JSON, UWP, Windows

    Upon entering the IoT revolution a few things immediately became apparent; We now had the ability to collect and handle more sensor data than we’d ever before possibly conceived. These sensors and there data will/are going to change the very way we live… Not convinced by this one? Talk to anybody that has a Fitbit attached to their wrist about how many steps they do each day! More relevant to this article. The procedural tools we…

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