Just a very quick one with Preview5. I encountered this gotcha whereby the project's name in the solution explorer doesn't match that of the folder name. I'd had a change of heart on the project name but of course the folder on disk doesn't change automatically. Once I'd renamed the folder and then proceeded to fix the path in the .sln file this error went away. tl;dr project folder name and project name in the solution explorer seemingly have to match up at present

Using GitLab to host both the source control and perform CI/CD, we will take a blazor project and build it and then proceed to deploy it on Netlify. This article presumes that you have some familiarity with the following: GitLab for source control (See here) GitLab for CI/CD (See here) Netlify CLI for deployment (See here) 1. Using the current SDK 3.0.100-preview4-011223 (See here), create a new blazor (client-side) project called 'testproj': Now create a file called .gitlab-ci.yml and add it to…

On the odd occasion you wish to debug Seed method code which has been executed from the Package Manager Console using the Update-Database command, a quick and dirty method is to add the following code: Yes it's dirty! It will however fire up a new Visual Studio debug window and allow you to see what's going on inside. This method will also work for any code that happens to sit outside of a normal debugging scenario.

When running an ASP.NET Core website in IIS, you may experience the following error: "HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error" (Code: 0x8007000d) The following article describes the error as being "This problem occurs because the ApplicationHost.config file or the Web.config file contains a malformed XML element.": This comes down to the presence of the following tag: You'll need to install the…

Here's a small code snippet to use Http Range Requests with ASP.NET Core butchered from this now outdated MSDN article: The "Request.Headers.Range" method has now been replaced by opting in for this functionality using the enableRangeProcessing boolean when returning a FileStreamResult object. Have fun!