I'm not saying it was built with Azure Functions, but it was definitely built with Azure Functions.

swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?

This article explains how to get around a weird quirk in Azure Static Web Apps local development story. Well – one of the quirks anyway. A real showstopper issue I ran into. One, that isn’t even that serious – it’s just that the error message doesn’t help you at all.…Continue reading swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?

Let me introduce you to my web development tools - Blazor and Razor :)

“Failed to launch debug server process due to: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined….” when trying to debug Blazor WebAssembly

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

.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.” ?

A simple graphical explanation of Blazor's effect on the web development landscape.

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…Continue reading HttpClient in Blazor