This may be one of the strangest errors I got from Visual Studio 2022 (17.6.3) in a long time: I got this error when I tried to start our web application in debug mode. It worked without any problem for a long time and that error only happened on my machine – everyone else in …
Last week I was in Oslo to attend the NDC conference. I cannot really believe that this was already the 10th NDC Oslo I attended. With 2’600 attendees it was the biggest NDC event ever, but at least for me not the best. Practical Clean Architecture workshop with Jason Taylor I started my NDC …
With new versions of Chrome come new security checks. An especially annoying new “feature” I found yesterday in the NDC Oslo workshop. A not fully configured Angular application had a problem that showed up in Chrome as a NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID error. So far, on the SSL error page of Chrome we could click on the Advanced …
As part of the release build of our user group site, we use Terraform to create a BDD environment from scratch, run the acceptance tests and then destroy the environment to keep the cost down. As we recently switched the BDD environment from Windows to Linux, we run into this error: Error: creating Linux Web …
In one old web application I had to add a redirect form one endpoint to the address of the new application. Everything compiled without a problem, but as soon as I accessed the old address, I got this exception: NWebsec.Core.Exceptions.RedirectValidationException: A potentially dangerous redirect was detected. Add the destination to the whitelist in configuration if …
After my series of 13 posts about Playwright spanning C# and Python, it is time to answer the two question I got asked a lot in the past few weeks: Is Playwright ready for production? Yes Should we switch to Playwright? It depends. The second one is a boring answer, but if you want to …
With the newly gained knowledge about Playwright, we have everything together to go and automate a browser to do repetitive tasks. Let’s figure out how Playwright differs from Selenium when it comes to download Jetpack statistics. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series …
At work we use Selenium and BrowserStack for end-to-end tests in C#. How much work is it to connect Playwright to BrowserStack? Prerequisites For BrowserStack we need an account that can run code on the Automate feature. If you do not already have an account, you can create one for free and test BrowserStack. …
Last week we got Playwright up and running in Python. In this post we build on that and start to automate our browser. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository on …
When you work with Playwright, there are a few small things that you want to change. Often there is a flag for codegen or a settings value that will do the trick. I collected the customisations for the parts I find most useful. Feel free to add a comment for other tricks you think I …