Category: DevTips
Sharing my best software development tips and tricks. From quick tips to actual guides and solutions.
Sharing my best software development tips and tricks. From quick tips to actual guides and solutions.
This article aims to clear the confusion around the GitHub Repository Secrets and explain how to successfully use them in your pipelines for fun and profit! Well, mostly for additional security and pipeline parameterization, really… But still – it’s a good piece of functionality to wrap your head around and…Continue reading How to access Environment Secrets with GitHub Actions?
This article explains briefly what the different Microsoft Teams App templates in Visual Studio are for and what capabilities do they come with. It’s a lot to wade through, but I hope this article is able to explain the basics. Background Lately, I’ve been playing around with Blazor and Teams…Continue reading What do you get from a Microsoft Teams App template in Visual Studio?
This article explains a couple of easy fixes for an issue, where Visual Studio refuses to properly recognize the FluentUI components you might have used in your Blazor projects. Because apparently that can (kind of randomly) happen! Problem The screenshot below shows a sample from Microsoft’s basic Teams tab extension…Continue reading Intellisense not working for Fluent components in Blazor project? Easy fix!
This article explains a couple of workarounds to a frustrating issue I had with vite and yet-another-weird-frontend-build-toolkit. Because every toolchain for frontend stuff is different, apparently. And they all fail in different ways. Anyway – let’s get to it. Background I was just creating a tiny bugfix to an older…Continue reading External path “**” cannot have more than one “*” wildcard with vite?
This article explains how to list all “Environment Variables” (that’s pipeline variables, job / stage variables, predefined variables and even local script variables that are mounted on to the agent as Environment Variables) using PowerShell in Azure DevOps.
This article explains one possibly reason why some C# code, powered by CSOM, suddenly stops working and can’t access a SharePoint list anymore that it could before, throwing annoying and misleading exceptions like “The list is not DocumentLibrary, VersionPolicies is not supported” instead. Oh – and of course, there’s a…Continue reading CSOM suddenly throwing exceptions when trying to access list contents in SharePoint? A weird fix.
This article explains how to fix an annoying error – somewhat along the lines of “error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported” – you might encounter when running node scripts. This might happen in a pipeline or locally. And guess what: you can probably fix it. Alright. Let’s get to it, then! Problem So…Continue reading node build throwing “error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported”? Let’s fix it!
This article explains a fix to an odd issue, where suddenly, mid-build, an error dialog pops up, complaining about your PC being unable to run “this app”. The fix is luckily straightforward, even if it’s a bit odd. Let me explain – but first, let’s define the issue a bit…Continue reading “This app can’t run on your PC” dialog when you’re building your app in Visual Studio
This article explains how to fix an annoying issue when trying to debug a Blazor WASM (WebAssembly) project. In my case, I had a Blazor WASM SWA (Static Web App), that built just fine and ran well in Azure, but refused to be debugged. What an annoying little problem. I…Continue reading “Failed to launch debug server process due to: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined….” when trying to debug Blazor WebAssembly
Even if you have a 100% TypeScript project, it’ll still end up with a lot of .js (JavaScript) or .jsx (JavaScript with React extension) files. Unless you properly ignore them, they’ll end up cluttering your Visual Studio solution, and even git. As these are, in that case, generated files and…Continue reading How to clean up redundant .js, .jsx and .d.ts files from your repository?