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Fluent UI | React | Controlled multi-select Dropdown - Selected Keys

Problem Space I ran into a problem the other day working with the Fluent UI React component Controlled Multi-select Dropdown. As context, here is my redacted code and explanation: import { Dropdown, IDropdownOption } from 'office-ui-fabric-react'; // office-ui-fabric-react@7.204.0 export …


Azure DevOps Pipeline | Git Shallow Fetch

Problem Space I have been recently working on building a new Yaml pipeline in Azure DevOps and wished to use the GitVersion Task, however, upon running the pipeline the task failed with the following error: ERROR [../../.. ..:..:..:..] An unexpected error occurred: System.NullReferenceException: …


Bicep | File Reference in a Git Repository Containing Spaces

Problem Space I recently started working on a Git Repository (not of my own creation) that had a repository name containing spaces. As a helping hand when a repository is created with spaces in the name, the spaces are replaced with %20 when cloned … Unless otherwise specified, however, this …


Azure Storage Account | Deletion and Reuse

Problem Space When it comes to creating Azure Storage Accounts, the name has some very important rules that need to be kept in mind. These rules will not only be important in the creation of the resource, but will be critical in deletion and reuse. The rules are as follows: Storage account names …


Azure API Management | Product Required Subscription Behaviours

Background | Functional Workings of APIM Subscriptions Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down. Azure API Management Subscriptions operate at three scope levels: …


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