Dead simple auditing for ASP.NET Core apps
I wanted a reusable way of auditing database changes that required minimal setup, but would allow me to see what happened to an entity when it was changed.
I finally got around to creating one.
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Goodbye WordPress, hello SimpleBlog
How I ditched WordPress and used Copilot to write a no-WordPress, no-database, no-PHP fast and simple blogging platform
Copilot is really rude about my code!
I have mentioned before that Copilot doesn't have a very high opinion of my coding skills. I'm not offended by this, it just adds to my opinion of Copilot's inline suggestions (which I find to be generally of a very poor quality, usually with compiler errors).
I have mostly got used to this, and just hit Esc when it suggests these sorts of things. However, it was really insistent just now.
MissingMethodException when adding a migration in EF Core
I have a Blazor app that I've been developing for a while, and wanted to add a migration. Done this plenty of times before, so didn't expect anything unusual.
Instead of the usual success, I saw the following exception... The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: System.Management.Automation.RemoteException.
No, I didn't know what that meant either! Now I do, and if you read my ramblings, you will as well.
A Edge bug that can cause WASM apps to crash
I've been working on a mixed-mode Blazor app for some time, and noticed that every now and then, when it switched from server rendering to WASM, I would see the page content briefly, then the browser tab went black, and I got a crash message. It took some hours of hard work, which ended up being an Edge bug, nothing to do with my code.
Trying to persuade Copilot to do what it told me it was going to do
I have found that on occasions, Copilot will stop doing anything. It tells me it's going to do something, and then doesn't. I decided to see if there was any way I could persuade it to change its mind and do what it promised.
There wasn't!
No really, what were they thinking?
Yet another example of my ongoing frustration with getting Copilot to do anything useful
How to override the default messages used by Telerik controls
A simple way to to override the default message that Telerik Blazor controls use for "No data" in a grid, "Select value" in a dropdown and so on
Adding a custom 404 page to a hybrid Blazor app
How to add a custom 404 page to a Blazor app that allows both server-side and WASM rendering
Accessing user claims via a navigation property in EF Core
Having struggled for a while trying to load claims when pulling users from the database, I rediscovered really easy way to do this