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What to do when emojis are not rendered correctly by ASP.NET Core web applications

For better or worse emojis have become part of our everyday life, we use them to communicate our emotions and as a quick way to acknowledge our approval or disapproval as the case may be! 👍 Recently I came across what seemed to be a rather odd issue where an emoji was being used within…

Understanding the Blazor component lifecycle

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As a Blazor developer, it is essential to have a solid understanding of the lifecycle events that take place from the moment a Blazor component is created until it is eventually torn down. By gaining an understanding of the Blazor component lifecycle, you will be able to make your components more efficient and reduce the…

Implementing Blazor error boundaries

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If you’ve been working with Blazor for any length of time, it probably won’t be very long before you encounter the “yellow bar of death” which is displayed at the bottom of the browser window any time an unhandled exception occurs. Whenever this exception bar appears for Blazor Server apps, a page refresh is required…

Blazor data binding fundamentals

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Data binding is a core feature of practically all front-end SPA (Single-page application) frameworks, including Blazor. Blazor provides lots of useful data-binding features that are enabled by using specific Razor syntax within components. In this article, I will cover the fundamental concepts of data binding with Blazor. After reading the article, you will understand the…

Creating your first Blazor component

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Components are the fundamental building blocks used to develop interactive web applications with Blazor. At their most basic level, they are reusable UI (User Interface) segments that can be composed together to create complex layouts, usually containing code that enables dynamic behaviour. Blazor components (also known as Razor components) are one of the first things…

Getting started with Blazor

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Blazor is an exciting new technology that allows software developers to use .NET and C# to build robust web applications with rich user interfaces, whilst utilising the power of WebAssembly (or SignalR). Up until relatively recently, SPA (Single Page Application) web apps were usually built using JavaScript (or TypeScript) frameworks such as Angular, React, or…

How ChatGPT can assist with software development

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As software development becomes increasingly complex, developers are constantly looking for ways to streamline their workflows and improve productivity. One exciting new development in this field is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. By leveraging the power of AI, developers can achieve faster, more efficient coding, testing, and deployment processes, ultimately resulting…

Getting the path to a C# member via a lambda expression

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Are you looking for a way of getting the path to a C# property, or some other type of object member, as a string and want to do so in a strongly-typed manner? For example, perhaps you are building your own API error response model and you want your error messages to contain member names…

Query to list the number of rows for each table in a SQL Server database

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When working with a SQL Server database, I often find it helpful to have a SQL query to hand that can be executed to tell me how many rows exist within each database table. This can be useful in scenarios where records are being inserted into lots of tables and you need to check that…

How to get the Local AppData directory for all Windows users within a .NET application

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Local AppData is a directory within the Windows operating system where software applications can store data that is specific to the current user. Getting the location of the Local AppData directory for the current user within a .NET application is straightforward. However, currently, there isn’t a .NET API that allows you to get the Local…

What to do when emojis are not rendered correctly by ASP.NET Core web applications

Understanding the Blazor component lifecycle

Implementing Blazor error boundaries

Blazor data binding fundamentals

Creating your first Blazor component

Getting started with Blazor

How ChatGPT can assist with software development

Getting the path to a C# member via a lambda expression

Query to list the number of rows for each table in a SQL Server database

How to get the Local AppData directory for all Windows users within a .NET application

How to output inserted and source IDs when cloning SQL Server table data

How to keep the host window open after executing a PowerShell script

Using the STRING_AGG function in T-SQL to concatenate row data