Peter Vogel

1 week ago | telerik.com | Peter Vogel

Certificates are often the best way to secure your application (you can use with everything from App Registrations to Web Services). Here’s everything you need to know to integrate certificates stored in your Azure Key Vault into your application. In an earlier post, Coding Azure 12: Configuring an Azure Key Vault and Adding Secrets, I described how to set up a Key Vault and store a text “secret” in it. This post is about storing and retrieving certificates from your Key Vault.

3 weeks ago | telerik.com | Peter Vogel

You have three choices for retrieving secrets from an Azure Key Vault: from your environment (simple), for your appsettings file (compatible) and from code (flexible). Here’s how to implement all three. You shouldn’t be putting confidential information (database passwords, credentials for databases and App Registrations, etc.) in your code where it can be seen by anyone who has access to your code—and that includes you.

3 weeks ago | telerik.com | Peter Vogel

Fiddler Everywhere not only lets you analyze the conversation between your client and Web Service, it gives you the fastest way to debug them both. If you’re building a web service, a client for a web service or both, you’re going to get everything up and running faster with Progress Telerik Fiddler Everywhere (unless everything works the first time … and we both know that won’t happen).

1 month ago | bccatholic.ca | Peter Vogel

“Grok, give me an analysis of auroral conditions probability for Yellowknife Jan. 5–9, 2026” Recently I had occasion to speak with a fellow parishioner over coffee. He and his wife enjoy travelling, and he mentioned he had recently booked a trip to Yellowknife to hopefully see the northern lights, not unlike visitors from all over the world who flock to our North to see this phenomenon.

1 month ago | telerik.com | Peter Vogel

Even you shouldn’t be allowed to see the secrets in your Azure Key Vault. Which means that creating a Key Vault is only useful if you limit access to its secrets to just one thing: your application. Some things about your application shouldn’t be shared with anyone: database passwords, credentials for claiming App Registrations and more.