Posts from October 2019

Posts from October 2019 (8)

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  Published on

  2019-10-29 10:24 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  gitgithubyaml

  How to resolve "refusing to allow an integration to create or update .github/workflows/main.yml" on GitHub Desktop?

  This article explains how to fix a weird and surprising error about GitHub Actions workflow file thrown at you when you try to push your changes using GitHub Desktop. The odd part is that you had no changes to the workflow file at all. Problem Ran into this one when trying to push my merge from upstream. I was adhering to my own instructions (see below for a link), but got the error (further below) that stopped me from using GitHub Desktop to push (sync) at all.

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  Published on

  2019-10-25 11:31 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azureazuredevopsrobotframework

  How to use the right version of the WebDriver on hosted agents in Azure DevOps?

  We were working on getting our Robot Framework tests running during our builds on Azure DevOps. However, using hosted agents, it was quite a struggle to get all of the dependencies on the agent and make sure the tests could access the browser on the build machine. In our case, we were running the tests in Chrome. For this, we needed Robot Framework and some of its dependencies to be installed on the machine.

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  Published on

  2019-10-24 12:55 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevopsdevopsmsbuild

  EF Core fails to load hostpolicy.dll when RuntimeIdentifier is win-x86

  I ran into another interesting one when working with a .NET Core 3.0 project and Entity Framework Core - this time, RuntimeIdentifier configuration causing trouble. In short, running Update-Database (to apply code-first migrations to your local database) locally would return this, annoying error: Failed to load the dll from [runtimepath]\win-x86\hostpolicy.dll], HRESULT: 0x800700C1 An error occurred while loading required library hostpolicy.

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  Published on

  2019-10-22 9:51 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  aspnetcorenetcore3visual-studiovisualstudio2019

  How to fix "The type or namespace name 'Services' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components' (are you missing an assembly reference?)"

  I have just resolved a random issue that's difficult enough to google so I thought it would be worth documenting! These seem to be popping up whenever you work with anything that's fairly fresh out of the oven... This particular case revolves around Visual Studio being incredibly obnoxious and starting to throw a ton of errors on code that worked five minutes prior. In my case, the error happened after updates to Visual Studio. Always fun. Symptoms The errors started popping up in Visual Studio.

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  Published on

  2019-10-17 12:22 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevopsdevopsnugetyaml

  Azure DevOps - how to package a single DLL?

  Okay - a quick piece of documentation that was a bit lackluster, so it's again a good idea to log somewhere. How to package a simple DLL that's a result of your Azure DevOps Pipeline? In my particular case, I have configured a post-build step to obfuscate the DLL, that's first built by MSBuild. That works nicely.

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  Published on

  2019-10-17 9:43 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  aspnetcoreblazornetcorenetcore3

  How to use UriHelper or NavigationManager in .NET Core 3.0 & Blazor?

  Just a quick piece of documentation, as this piece of code, has changed in different versions of .NET Core 3.0 so far a few times. Need to have things like this written down somewhere! UriHelper / NavigationManager with .NET Core 3.0 Both of these helper libraries do essentially the same thing: navigate/browse/redirect the user to a different address, component, page or view in or by your web app.

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  Published on

  2019-10-16 11:23 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevopsmsbuild

  Azure DevOps build fails with "The nuget command failed with exit code(1) and error(Cannot determine the packages folder to restore NuGet packages."

  -_PublishedWebSites ------ArtifactName ------bin,content,scripts,views.... folders and ------Web.config, Web.Debug.config and Web.Release.config ----ArtifactName.zip ----NugetPackagedll1 ----NugetPackagedll2 ----NugetPackagedll3 .... ----NugetPackagedll_300 So, I am not sure why I am getting these many contents in the output?

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  Published on

  2019-10-09 10:15 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  aspnetcoreblazornetcorenetcore3

  HttpClient in Blazor

  Blazor is a new (ish) framework for building web UIs with C#. It either uses SignalR to manage connections between your client-side and server-side code or even compiles directly to WebAssembly, in both cases cutting out the need to write any pesky JavaScript yourself - pretty neat, if you ask me! However, developing your web apps with Blazor is a bit different from using ASP.NET MVC, for example.

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