Library class doesn't know of ConfigureWebHostDefaults extension method - .net-standard-2.0

I'm building a suite of REST micro-services using .Net Core 3.0 Preview 6. All these services will have the same start up logic. So, I'm trying to place all the code in a .Net Standard library.
The goal is to have the IHostBuilder:CreateHostBuilder method, as well as the Startup:Configure and Startup:ConfigureServices class and methods in the library. The library will also contain error handling logic, customized http response messages, etc.
However, I can't seem to find the correct package that contains the ConfigureWebHostDefaults method. I tried adding the Microsoft.AspNetCore package 2.2.0, but that didn't resolve the issue.
I added the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting (3.0.0-preview-6) package, that also doesn't resolve the issue.
Is what I'm attempting even possible?
Thanks
-marc

I resolved it, not the best way, but it works. I decided to make the library targeted specifically for .NET Core 3.0. So, I changed the targetframework in the project file. That change automatically resolved my other issue.

Import the Microsoft.AspNetCore package, and use WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder() instead. According to the code it is built from, both CreateDefaultBuilder() and ConfigureWebHostDefaults() call the same internal method: ConfigureWebDefaults().
The only downside of this is that the returned host will be an IWebHost instead of an IHost.

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.NET CORE 3 Upgrade CORS and Json(cycle) XMLHttpRequest Error

I had my working project written in asp.net core 2.1 for a long time, but yesterday, I was forced to upgrade it to .net core 3.0 (due to 2.1 cannot call Dll' s which are written in 3.0 already).
With that, a lot of functions were obsolete or already removed. I fixed almost all of it, but one problem with CORS.
Like many people before me, I used:
app.UseCors(x => x
.AllowAnyOrigin()
.AllowAnyMethod()
.AllowAnyHeader()
.AllowCredentials());
in Configure function. And services.AddCors() in ConfigureServices function.
I was able to fixed this quite easily with setting WithOrigins() or .SetIsOriginAllowed(_ => true) instead of AllowAnyOrigin() which does not work anymore with AllowCredentials().
After that, I was able to start the application and I thought everything is fine, but then I get stuck until now with problem I do not know, how to fix.
I have DB relation N:N and relation table which handle that, that means I have Admin entity with AdminProject list property, then I have AdminProject entity with Admin list and Project list properties and Project entity with AdminProject list property once again.
When I am listing my projects of certain admin, I am returning in Controller this return Ok(projects), where I just use getAll on AdminProject entity and then with Select return only project.
For that, I have to use[JsonIgnore] in project/admin for properties which I do not need to avoid cycling when creating json.
With that said: NOW IN .NET CORE 3.0 AND CORS SETTINGS IT DOES NOT WORK.
I am getting an error:
System.Text.Json.JsonException: A possible object cycle was detected which is not supported. This can either be due to a cycle or if the object depth is larger than the maximum allowed depth of 32.
when debugging in console and error Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://localhost:5000/api/project/adminlist/1' from origin 'http://localhost:8080' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. in WEB browser
I think I tried almost everything with Cors settings etc and I do not know why is this happening now. I also tried to JsonConvert.SerializeObject() before return it ---> return Ok(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(projects)) and this is working, but I am not able (mentally) to do this in every single controllers functions.
Please help! Thanks a lot!
The problem was occurring because in .NET Core 3 they change little bit the JSON politics. Json.Net is not longer supported and if you want to used all Json options, you have to download this Nuget: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NewtonsoftJson.
After that in your Startup.cs file change/fix/add line where you are adding MVC (in the ConfigureServices method.
So: here is what I did and what fixed my issue:
services.AddMvc(option => option.EnableEndpointRouting = false)
.SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_3_0)
.AddNewtonsoftJson(opt => opt.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore);
I hope it will help somebody else.
Cheers!
A couple other things have changed in .net core 3 and now instead of using addMVC you can use addControllers. So your code might look like the follow:
services.AddControllers().AddNewtonsoftJson(x => x.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore);

What Angular Providers do and how to use it?

I'm new with Angular. I follow a tutorial from this link, and i tried to do/add something that doesn't part of that tutorial. I added a providers :[EmployeeService] line to employee-list.component.ts and empployee.component.ts inside #component, and it returns error that said TypeError: Cannot read property 'push' of undefined. So realize that adding providers :[EmployeeService] to some components are unnecessary. I read about Dependency Injection from this link but i do not really get what i wanted to know. So can anyone give me a simple explanation how/when/where to use/put providers and how that error happens?
Thank you very much in advance.
providers array tells Angular what services it should instantiate. You can define it on two places:
component
module
When you use providers in component the service will be available to that and all it's children.
When you use it in module the service will be available for all pipes, directives, components and services in given module.
But you can define it in both if you want - in that case Angular will create two instances of the same service.
For beginning provide your services on the module level.

Is there a way to force the UWP RichEditBox use only UTF encoding when the user types?

I am trying to convert the contents of a UWP RichEditBox to HTML.
For that purpose, I've tried using the RtfPipe library (https://github.com/erdomke/RtfPipe). From the looks of it, this library has a problem on UWP, due to the fact that not all encodings are defined on that target framework. (This is the error you get, if you are interested: Encoding.GetEncoding can't work in UWP app, but the accepted answer seems not to be the best option on all platforms - I haven't even managed to make the suggested fix compile, so it might not be valid anymore)
Now, as a way of avoiding this from happening, I am wondering whether there is a way to force the control to always use one of the UWP-defined UTF-variants for encoding the data when the user types his text.
Because, now, when I type into it, I get things like that:
{\rtf1\fbidis\ansi\ansicpg1253\deff0\nouicompat\deflang1032{
....
\pard\tx720\cf1\f0\fs23\lang1033
...that make the library throw exceptions.
I guess, if I manage to make it not use ASCII code pages, things will be great.
After taking a look at the control properties though, I do not see something I could use. Is there any way to achieve this?
This is the error you get, if you are interested: Encoding.GetEncoding can't work in UWP app
As you described, there is an inner error thrown when using this package with UWP app. System.ArgumentException: 'Windows-1252' is not a supported encoding name, by testing on my side, which is thrown by the code line public static readonly Encoding AnsiEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252"); of RtfSpec.cs when UpdateEncoding.
It seems like Windows-1252 may not be supported in UWP from the error details,also see this similar thread. You could use UTF instead as you want, for example, have a change on the library with following then it will work (testing demo here).
public static readonly Encoding AnsiEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
I haven't even managed to make the suggested fix compile, so it might not be valid anymore
Encoding.RegisterProvider method should be work, but it only support UWP or .NET Framework 4.6, it does't support the Portable Class Library. The RtfPipe library you mentioned is Portable Class Library, so that you cannot use Encoding.RegisterProvider. Encoding.GetEncoding method supports Portable Class Library, details please check the version information of the two classed.
I guess, if I manage to make it not use ASCII code pages
RTF itself uses the ANSI, PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, you may not able to change that. Consider to update the library to resolve the issue for UWP.

How to activate IWiFiDirectDevice in Win32 Console APP using WRL?

I want to use WinRT API for WiFi Direct from Windows 10 SDK in Win32 Console Application. I know about C++/CX (and even made some progress going that way), but still want to make it work without this extension.
My problem is that I can't activate IWifiDirectDevice interface (from ABI::Windows::Devices::WiFiDirect) to access IWifiDirectDeviceStatics that provides an GetDeviceSelector method.
HStringReference strDevice(RuntimeClass_Windows_Devices_WiFiDirect_WiFiDirectDevice);
ComPtr<IInspectable> insp;
hr = RoActivateInstance(strDevice.Get(), insp.GetAddressOf());
This code ends up with E_NOTIMPL as a result. In Microsoft's example they used factories for activation, but ABI::Windows::Devices::WiFiDirect namespace has no factories.
Worth mentioning that IWifiDirectAdvertisementPublisher works just fine when activated the way I wrote before.
So how to activate IWifiDirectDevice from WRL?
Windows.Devices.WiFiDirect.WiFiDirectDevice is not an activatable class. You can see that by looking at windows.devices.wifidirect.idl.
You will need to use the static methods, e.g.:
HStringReference strDevice(RuntimeClass_Windows_Devices_WiFiDirect_WiFiDirectDevice);
ComPtr<IWiFiDirectDeviceStatics> wiFiDirectDeviceStatics;
hr = Windows::Foundation::GetActivationFactory(
strDevice.Get(),
&wiFiDirectDeviceStatics);
ComPtr<IWiFiDirectDevice> wiFiDirectDevice;
ComPtr<IAsyncOperation<WiFiDirectDevice*>> asyncOperation;
hr = wiFiDirectDeviceStatics->FromIdAsync(deviceId.Get(), &asyncOperation);
Consider taking a look at the Wi-Fi Direct sample.

getWindowHandle function doesn't exist for driver in Selenium

I need to implement switch from one window to another in IE. However, element driver doesn't support getWindowHandle function.
I assume it might be just configuration problem or settings, though I don't know how to fix it.
Please, any suggestions.
I'm working with c# - Visual Studio
You haven't said which language bindings you're using, but based on a comment you posted, it looks like you're using C#. The method names are slightly different for each language binding. From this answer:
The object, method, and property names in the .NET language bindings
do not exactly correspond to those in the Java bindings. One of the
principles of the project is that each language binding should "feel
natural" to those comfortable coding in that language.
So you have to do a little translation if you're trying to copy-paste Java code. In this case, you want the combination of the WindowHandles property (to look for the new window handle) and the CurrentWindowHandle property of the driver. You can find full API documentation for the .NET bindings at the project's Google code site.
I am going to make wild guess:
Try to initialize your driver like this:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); //assume you use firefox
The interface WebDriver supports that method. Do not forget to store the handle somewhere ;)
String myWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
BTW that method should return you actual window If you need all windows you probably should use getWindowHandles() method
If this does not work, please provide more info:
what error exactly are you getting?
How do you initialize WebDriver?
What version of selenium are you using?|
What type of driver are you using?