I had a horrible experience with Tailwind, up until some YouTube contributors (listed at the bottom of this post) had up to date videos on the matter. Certainly, AI is still trailing on up to the second content. I'm using Windows 11 and Rider and a Blazor WebApp

💡Ah. The pitfalls of AI. Turns out everywhere I turned I was getting instructions for installing Tailwind v3 and not v4. But Tailwind itself was installing v4. And in some cases, AI was comingling the instructions. That accounts for nonsense that follows. If you want an updated and, likely, correct

tl;dr You're going to have to manually call your FluentValidation validator to ensure your view model is valid before you save any data and the validator must include the state of the entire view model, including any child and nested child view models. In my case I

Sometimes you want to just pass values to a dialog, but other times, you want events in the dialog to trigger things before the dialog is actually closed. Here's an example. private async Task OpenFiltersDialog() { var options = new DialogOptions { CloseOnEscapeKey = true, Position = DialogPosition.CenterLeft }; var originalFiltersViewModel = AccountPickerState.AccountFiltersViewModel;

Just trying not to forget this... Anywhere in the component, create a MudOverlay as shown below.  When the visibility of the overlay changes, the FiltersOverlayVisibileChanged gets called. <MudOverlay @ref="@filtersOverlay" AutoClose="true" Visible="@filtersVisible" VisibleChanged="@FiltersOverlayVisibileChanged"/> Then in the C#

Knowing how to find answers from the incredibly useful, informal documentation that make up the collective knowledge on a subject turns out to be key.  Also, paying attention helps. When you don't it sometimes results in an well deserved face palming moment when you say, "Why didn&

Damn.  Another Update. I wrote a post, then got help from some nice people.  Then published the "Update" below.   Then, in the process of using a suggestion from Matias I found a real no-compromise solution. Stop reading this and go here to get these two working together properly.

First thing: I am a huge fan of Microsoft, their products and especially their developers.  These people are first class engineers. So when I tried to move from NewtonSoft to System.Text.Json (STJ), I underestimated the problems involved.  By a lot.  I'm not going to write about

At the very outset much of this was learned through trial and error and with the video help of people like Steve Smith, Nick Chapsas, Julie Lerman and others.  Useful links to some of their work is at the bottom of this post. I'm writing this up because

Writing these damn queries always makes me feel stupid. Here's a sample where we need to filter on the values in an object and other values in a list contained inside the object, but need access to the parent object and associated child object when we're

This is the accounting of a hunting trip that nearly ended badly.  This document was found during a cleaning up exercise and has been reproduced here in its entirety.  Some of you will know these individuals.

Using Enums 1. Always declare a zero value, valid enum 2. Use ResourceDictionary to localize them. 3. For flags, remember there is a limit of 31 for an int and 63 for a long. 4. Microsoft docs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/enumeration-types] To create a normal

I have officially lost my mind. I've never run into so many roadblocks in my life on a single concept. Everything seems to be about halfway there, nothing works completely out of the box. And since the effort crosses so many platforms, frameworks and concepts, and since nothing

I thought I'd write this all down before I forget it. Really hard to remember it after stepping away for a second. I'm using the Microsoft Azure Mobile App platform and I want to support a number of different identity providers and platforms. This is basically