Enough Is Enough

 As everyone knows, the United States Capital was breached by thugs trying to disrupt the validation of the Electoral College votes for the 2020 National Election for The President Of The United States.  A group of protestors/thugs then laid siege to the capital.  I won’t bore you with my thoughts on this.  I have listened to various political leaders this afternoon.  I would hope that Joe Biden would lead us forward.  You have a hard road ahead of you.  I feel for what you are going through at this time.

Along the line of Joe Biden leading us forward, there are many myths surrounding what the problem is.  The problem is that there are more problems than are being discussed.  I would hope that President Joe Biden would come forward and listen to the problems.  I invite you to come to my office and listen.  I can fill you up a number of issues.  It’s way beyond race.

Setting up an Azure Sql Database - Firewall settings

 I've been working on an update to my golf game application.  I'm going to get it running with ASP.NET Core 5, aka .NET 5.  I've been digging through a lot of little changes, and it's been making me quite crazy at times.  I started working on it locally, then added an azure sql db, and would run my local system off of the azure db.  It was starting to all work great.  I then created an azure web app, deployed the new code, and nothing database oriented worked.  I was going crazy because I wasn't getting anything beyond an http 500 error.

I had some other issues to work on, so I created an azure vm last week to get get some things done quicker than running over the interwebz.  I noticed I had to add the vm to the azure firewall.  Did that, and handled the database work.

I came back around to this today.  I stepped into the code.  The first error was in calling the password manager's signin method.  Poof, no good error, just boom.  I noticed that the error took a number of seconds to actually generate the error.  It seems that the problem was the communication wasn't actually getting to the database.  I went back to the azure portal and decided to look at the sql server firewall settings.  I noticed the option of allowing azure services to access the database.  I set that to true, and the problem was resolved.