Category: Tech

This category contains all of the non-rants. And some tech-related rants, I guess. It’s difficult to categorize your content, you know?

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How to include the whole certificate chain in your .cer, .crt or .pem certificate file?

Haha, another one of those “should’ve known it was this easy” in the books! This article explains how to include the whole certificate chain (so your “user certificate” with all the “intermediary certificates” and optionally, but not as recommended, the root certificate) in your PEM-formatted certificate. Because sometimes you just…Continue reading How to include the whole certificate chain in your .cer, .crt or .pem certificate file?

Some men want to watch the build fail

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…Continue reading How to fix “MSB4044: The AndroidSignPackage task was not given a value for the required parameter KeyPass

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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…Continue reading 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?

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

Solving “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” issues in your app

This article explains how to fix “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” (or like the error message is actually worded – “occurred”, which to me looks like a typo, but at least makes this easier to google. I mean – bing. Those are both verbs now until…Continue reading Solving “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” issues in your app

.NET MAUI

How to fix your MAUI Blazor app crashing on startup with “Failed to compare two elements in the array.” ?

This article explains how to fix your Blazor Hybrid MAUI application (built with Blazor Webassembly, using MAUI to build & publish for multiple different platforms like Windows, Android and iOS at once) not starting up, but throwing an unexpected error instead, an error message being somewhat along the lines of…Continue reading How to fix your MAUI Blazor app crashing on startup with “Failed to compare two elements in the array.” ?

.NET MAUI

How to solve “System.TypeInitializationException: ‘The type initializer for ‘WinRT.ActivationFactory`1’ threw an exception.'” in the MAUI application?

… or “How to bang your head on a wall for hours on end when developing a MAUI application?” 😂 This article explains how to fix a surprising error you might get when trying to run a MAUI app in Windows. For me, it was thrown when I was simply…Continue reading How to solve “System.TypeInitializationException: ‘The type initializer for ‘WinRT.ActivationFactory`1’ threw an exception.’” in the MAUI application?