I am struggling to get server metrics appearing in Application Insights for my Kentico 10 Website hosted as an Azure App.I have added to the website:script tag in head for tracking page views (work...

The world is full of horrible typists. From the ever-devolving grammar on social media to the classic hunt-and-peck, there’s no shortage of people that could use a little help in their data entry. When it comes to capturing data on the web, this is especially important as the information often contains personal and contact information. In this article, I’ll show you how you can leverage Azure’s new cloud-based Bing Spell Check API within your Kentico sites to proof your user’s data.

I have CDN configured as per the documentation. However, when I upload an image, it uploads to the azure CDN but kentico serves the image from \App_Data\AzureCache\library\ when I use the getmedia ...

We are trying to automate our deployment process of Kentico websites to Azure for continuous integration purposes, but we have no idea how we deploy the database as we would like to do it all in on...

We currently have a SQL Server Kentico database that we are looking to move into Azure SQL. The current database has a collation type of Latin1_General_CI_AS (Kentico default) and our Azure SQL mas...

For the past few years, I’ve presented on Azure Search at several conferences and events. Microsoft’s Software-As-A-Service search solution is a great way to add powerful capabilities to a site with a few lines of code.  Combine that functionality with Azure Functions and a Headless CMS and you get a very powerful search experience for your applications. In this article, I’ll show you how I integrated Azure Search into my Kentico Cloud site, using Azure Functions.

Developing applications using microservices is a great way to increase functionality, without being solely dependent on a single solution. By using multiple systems and services, you can leverage the best from each platform. In Part 1 of this series, I showed you how I architected my personal site using a microservices. In this next edition, I’ll break down these integrations and show you how to leverage disconnected systems in your applications to achieve some powerful capabilities.

When deploying Kentico to Azure, one of the biggest questions that comes up is what size database to use. While we publish some recommendations in our documentation, your individual mileage may vary. To know if your database is spec’d high enough, you need to understand how it’s performing. In this article, I’ll show you how you can quickly view your Azure Database information right from inside your site, using a custom utility.

I'm tinkering around with Azure blob storage. I have no problem turning on blob storage and any new media file / system file (page attachment/form file) are going up just fine, but it didn't put e...

Once you select Azure as your hosting platform, a vast world of resources becomes available. From CDNs to Load Balancers, Microsoft’s cloud has loads of great services to help you develop and maintain your applications. Because performance is king, adding Application Insights to your site is a great way to stay on top of issues and understand how your application is performing. In this article, I’ll show you how to add this great monitoring tool to your .NET Core applications.