Posts from April 2023

Posts from April 2023 (4)

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  Published on

  2023-04-25 3:29 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  githubactionsmaui

  How to avoid sed in GitHub Actions removing spaces from your script steps?

  This article explains how to replace double quotes in string literal when replacing stuff in GitHub Actions using sed. Or rather, how to replace stuff with double quotes in it in GitHub Actions overall. Because it's not as straightforward as one would think. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious here? Either way, here's another thoughtful workaround!

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  Published on

  2023-04-18 2:14 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azurepipelinesgithubactionsmsbuild

  How to fix "MSB4044: The AndroidSignPackage task was not given a value for the required parameter KeyPass

  This article explains a quick fix to an error along the lines of "AndroidSignPackage" task was not given a value for the required parameter "KeyPass". In my case the issue occurred in a GitHub Actions pipeline, but you could get it in Azure DevOps or even when running the build command locally.

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  Published on

  2023-04-11 2:50 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  mauiwindows

  How to set Window size for your MAUI app in Windows?

  This article shows you how to set a window size for a MAUI app on Windows. This is super useful for debugging - in my case, I wanted to retain a fast development cycle with lightweight debugging to work on my code quickly, but still see everything in roughly the right aspect ratio for my typical end-user device - an Android smartphone. But using the emulator for this was not usable, as it's comparably slow. And of course the same solution will work for production use cases.

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  Published on

  2023-04-04 2:39 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  entityframeworkcoresql

  How to fix "System.InvalidOperationException: The property 'ItemBody.AdditionalData' could not be mapped because it is of type 'IDictionary', which is not a supported primitive type or a valid entity type. Either explicitly map this property, or ignore it using the '[NotMapped]' attribute or by using 'EntityTypeBuilder.Ignore' in 'OnModelCreating'." in .NET 7 and Entity Framework?

  Oof. What even is this title? Descriptive - sure, maybe - but also kinda long. Ah, okay. This article explains how to map complex data types to a SQL database when using Entity Framework. This time, I'm using Fluent API to do this. In my case, I just needed to store entities that I got from external source, based on entities coming from a dependency, into my service's database.

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