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If you create a private certificate in Azure Key Vault and use the fancy features like auto rotation, you might like to be able to fetch the private key from the vault and rehydrate it as a X509Certificate2 class in your C# code. Here is how you do that: KeyVaultClient keyVaultClient = new KeyVaultClient(new KeyVaultClient.AuthenticationCallback(GetToken)); var certificateBundle = await keyVaultClient.GetCertificateAsync(certificateIdentifier); var certficiateSecret = await keyVaultClient.GetSecretAsync(certificateBundle.SecretIdentifier.Identifier); byte[] certificateDecoded = Convert.FromBase64String(certficiateSecret.Value); var certificate = new X509Certificate2(certificateDecoded, password: ""); The Certificate Bundle passed back from the  GetCertificateAsync call has a .Cer property, however that is just the bytes for the pubic key, if you do this: var publicCertificate = new X509Certificate2( certificateBundle.Cer ); The X509Certificate2 instance will onl...

Before you check in code, make sure the Azure subscription keys are removed or replaced with obvious markers. In VSCode, select the magnifying glass, the select the last icon on the line, "*." indicating the search is by regular expression. Enter [a-z0-9]{32} in the search text box and select enter. The search results appear below the search text box. Scan the results for any highlighted keys that are real key values.

If you need to change the TLS setting for you Azure web apps, including Bot Framework apps, go to the Azure portal. In the left navigation, select All Resources , sort the table by the type column. Any row with the type of app service may need the TLS setting updated based on on the service announcement here . On each service, select the SSL section , and change the Minimum TLS Version .

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This is the curl command to send QnA Maker a question and receive the answer: curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key:<subscriptionKey>" -X POST -d '{"question":"<question>"}' https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/qnamaker/v2.0/knowledgebases/<appID>/generateAnswer <subscriptionKey> found on https://www.qnamaker.ai/UserSettings <appID> found in url when view app, ?kbid=<appID> <question> question such as "How do I ...?"

This is my cheat sheet for debugging the mocha.js project from VSCode while adding fixes to it. This is not about how to debug ANY project that is using mocha for testing. The mocha.js repository has a build system that builds into /bin/mocha. I don't use a package.json script. I just use a launch.json mocha test configuration: { // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes. // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes. // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387 "version" : "0.2.0" , "configurations" : [ { "type" : "node" , "request" : "launch" , "name" : "Mocha Tests" , "program" : "${workspaceFolder}/bin/_mocha" , "args" : [ "--colors" , "${workspaceFolder}/test/reporters/dina.spec.js" ], "internalConsoleOptions" : "openOnSessionSta...

I recently needed a clean Windows 10 desktop for testing purposes. I couldn't use Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox or any of the other local-to-my-computer VM solutions. I tried the Amazon Workspaces solution but it had the typical UX of 30 questions I don't know the answer to. I just wanted a desktop that could download from the Internet. Paperspace.com to the rescue! Within 5 minutes I had a Windows 10 desktop in a browser and the hardest questions where how much CPU and ram I wanted. The cost was incredibly inexpensive too. The test only took 10 minutes and I destroyed the cloud machine after that. This was the easiest, fastest, and cheapest solution to the problem.