Took me awhile, but I finally found a fix for the error. Turns out, I now need to add a “user-agent” default header value to my requests, to allow the api call to go through. This seems to be an issue affecting Web APIs written using C#/.NET starting June 2024. Credit goes to this answer from StackOverflow.

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I thought about rebuilding it using ReactJS. But for a mostly read-only website, using React seems overkill. Same goes for using ASP.NET Core MVC; it is overkill for such a simple website. Thought about using Blazor, but I do not need this website to be an SPA. So, ASP.NET Razor Pages seems like the perfect choice for what I want to do.

I only started working on this like 30 minutes ago. Here's what I have so far.

After I'm satisfied with the content on the pages, I'll move on to modifying the look/theme of the website. Then will need to figure out where to host it.

Part of the reason I stuck with a static website build, is because I can host it for free on Netlify. However, I've been wanting to see what it takes to host an ASP.NET website outside of Azure. Now is my chance to learn how to make that work.

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The solution for me was to uncheck the “Call string-conversion function on objects in variables windows” checkbox.

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Task.Run(() =>
{
	//code goes here
});

In ReactJS, if ESLint says you cannot use inline arrow functions to pass in props in JSX, a solution is to wrap them with the useCallback hook.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36677798/5041911

Modals — can be used to add dialog or popup info boxes on your ReactJS app.

So using this library actually helped me solve my Azure Application Insights logging issue. The issue being, since I had a dateOfBirth object in my formData object, app insights would save it as an object, as opposed to something like dateOfBirth: 2024-04-16. The solution was to flatten the formData object so it will get logged properly in Azure App Insights.

Rendering the HTML string in React — short tutorial on how to render an HTML string in ReactJS/Gatsby.

Series: #DevNotes Tags: #CSharp #DotNet #Template #ReactJS #Azure #ApplicationInsights #Gatsby

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It was an easy fix, though it wasn't the web app that was broken, but the API that it was calling. I mentioned in a previous post, that I was working on an API to power my Blazor WASM apps. The API is functional, it's out there on the internet, running as an Azure App Service. And it's the one with the bug that I just fixed a few hours ago.

So, the Write.as Archive Page Generator should be working correctly now. You no longer need to do a “search and replace” on the output to correct the URLs.

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If you want to see what kind of error Axios throws, it is better to use console.log(error.toJSON()) than console.log(error). That's because the former option will list out all the properties from the error variable, while the latter option will only list out the error message itself.

Instead of adding todo comments, track it as a task so it doesn't get lost.

Source: TODO: Post an Article

Looking for a new way to do end-to-end testing on modern web apps? Check out Playwright. The tests are pretty easy to follow because it's basically a set of instructions written in code. So as you might have guessed, it's catered more to developers than non-technical folks.

I am going through the Pro ASP.NET Core 6 book. After trying to run the command libman install bootstrap@5.1.3 -d wwwroot/lib/bootstrap from page 72 (Chapter 4) of the book, I started getting the error listed below:

[LIB002]: The "bootstrap@5.1.3" library could not be resolved by the "cdnjs" provider

Turns out it was an issue with the library manager package that was installed. The fix is to install a newer one. More info can be found here:

https://github.com/Apress/pro-asp.net-core-6/blob/main/errata.md

Was looking for a way to add a list of objects to the appsettings.json file, then retrieve that list and turn them into something I can check against in a controller class. This answer works wonderfully.

React Hook Form — seems like a cool alternative form handler for React.

SQL to MongoDB Mapping Chart — good reference on how to write MongoDB queries based on expected SQL Server queries.

Reasons to blog if you're a software developer:

• It helps you write better emails at work.
• It helps you write better user stories and acceptance criteria.
• It helps you communicate your ideas better.

If you're noticing a pattern there, it's all about being a better communicator. And you would want that, because that also helps you advance in your career.

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I did notice, during my testing, that it can fail on blogs with a huge number of posts. That's mainly because the API call times out at like the 1.7 minute mark. I'll see if I can fix that in the future. But for now, just getting the archive page generator working is a win. So I'll call it a day.

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This very minor update adds an interface for the WriteAsClient class, which opens it up for use with dependency injection in ASP.NET Core. This allows you to create a single WriteAsClient instance and re-use it when needed, making the caching additions from Version 1.2.0 much more useful.

This also frees me up to make better use of it in the API I'm working on.

You can install it via nuget: Install-Package WriteAs.NET -Version 1.2.1

Or via the .NET Core command line interface: dotnet add package WriteAs.NET --version 1.2.1

If you find any bugs or issues with it, please let me know. Thanks and y'all have a good night.

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This SQL Server query allows you to search for specific text inside all stored procedures on a database. The query will return the name of the stored procedure.

SELECT name 
FROM   sys.procedures 
WHERE  Object_definition(object_id) LIKE '%Search-Text%' 

Source: Search text in stored procedure in SQL Server

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