Mobile App Developer

This post is aimed at other software developers, not at our customers.

 

While developing in the latest version of Xamarin, I’ve been getting the error The “DebugType” parameter is not supported by the “XamlCTask” task. while trying to rebuild my solution sometimes. Accompanied by The “XamlCTask” task could not be initialized with its input parameters.

Easy fix, just close down all copies of Visual Studio, open up your solution again and it should rebuild. Pain in the butt, but I’m sure they’ll fix it soon.

 

What a pain…!!

I’ve been trying to use HashLocationStrategy in my Angular 2 application to get URLs with a # in (tghe old style URLs) and my Angular application ran fine when I launched it from its original URL
http://localhost:58035/Admin
and I could go to a sub-page like this
http://localhost:58035/Admin/#/adm-products
once the Angular 2 app had loaded.

However, whenever I tried to go to the sub-page URL directly (before angular had been loaded), I got the following error
“boot:Error: patchProperty/desc.set/wrapFn@http://localhost:58035/libs/zone.js/dist/zone.js:794:27
Zone Zone ZoneTask/this.invoke@http://localhost:58035/libs/zone.js/dist/zone.js:433:29

Error loading http://localhost:58035/scripts/boot”

I ‘m using TypeScript and I have a gulp task that turns the boot.ts file into boot.js, I could see that the boot.js file was created under the scripts folder and as I said, the Angular 2 app loaded fine when visiting the original URL.

Took me long enough to figure out what was going on!!!

Turns out I changed from the default location strategy to the Hash Location Strategy later on and set my base location to
<base href=”/Admin/” />

You don’t need a base element when using HashLocationStrategy and I’m pretty sure it would have been quite happy with life if I had taken out the last backslash in that base href… YEP… just tested it now
<base href=”/Admin” />
works fine.

Makes sense right. these are two completely different URL:
http://localhost:58035/Admin/#/adm-products
http://localhost:58035/Admin#/adm-products