Styling Tip for Blazor Validation – What, Don’t These Things Bother You Too?

Ray HuangUnfortunately, this blog won’t be about how to get your hair cut during this COVID-19 pandemic, but it will be about one of my pet peeves, THINGS NOT LINING UP!  Or you can say I have OCD.  Whateva! 

As I have been working a lot with Blazor recently, one of things I found annoying was how validation was styled in the default Blazor Server template.  Here I show you how I fixed it.



PHP 7.4 and PHP 7.3 Available

Takeshi EtoPHP 7.4 and PHP 7.3 are both available on the Everleap platform now. You can select the PHP version in the Everleap control panel. In general, PHP 7.4 and PHP 7.3 will give you faster performance than previous versions.

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CSS Workaround for BlazorInputFile

Ray HuangOver the past few weeks, I’ve been working on updating an old app (or personal website rather) that I developed by rewriting it in ASP.NET Core Blazor.  I must say, Blazor, has made my life much easier since everything can be written in C#, and I’ve had to use very little Javascript to implement the same features my old site had.  (My old site was very reliant on Javascript and AJAX calls.)  I did run into some issues though and wanted to share this quick tip for those trying to implement an upload feature. 



Everleap Renews Microsoft Silver Partner Status for 2020-2021

Takeshi EtoEverleap successfully renewed our Microsoft Silver Partner status for 2020-2021 – this time with 2 Competencies: Silver Datacenter Solutions competency and the Silver Cloud Hosting Platform Hosting competency.

Microsoft Silver Partner


A Workaround to Access the Connection String in a .NET Core application

Ray HuangEven with the Stay at Home order due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, we’re still hard at work here at Everleap.

I haven’t had much time to personally explore development in .NET Core until recently now that I’m staying put.   I started about a week ago, ran through a couple of Microsoft tutorials, and delved right into it.  Immediately, I ran into a roadblock with the connection string because .NET Core doesn’t really make use of the web.config file which I’m used to in .NET Framework.  So, something as simple as assigning a connection string to a string using System.Configuration proved difficult. 

private static 
string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionString"];

That’s because .NET Core allows you to pull configuration information from a variety of sources.  After researching the matter further on the web and looking at various solutions involving dependency injection and Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration, I couldn’t really find a working solution for what I wanted to do – which was to simply reference it in a class library project apart from the main project (in other words, I couldn’t get the code to work properly in a manner that I am used to), so I developed one of my own solution and am sharing it with you in this post. 



Two-Factor Authentication has Arrived!

Martin Ortega

You asked for it and you shall receive! We have been getting increased requests and questions about support for two-factor authentication (2FA) for the control panel. I’m happy to announce that the answer is now, YES.

two factor authentication

The 2FA system works through a verification code sent via text message. Check out our knowledge base article to learn how to enable 2FA and secure your control panel login, today!



World Backup Day – How to Backup your Website

World Backup Day is coming up on March 31st.  On the official World Backup Day website some stats are listed. 

We know and you know that your website is very important. So we encourage all our customers to a take a little time to backup your website before March 31st



COVID-19 and Everleap

Empty Office

I’m sure you have been keeping informed about COVID-19 and all the precautions being taken across the world. We are no different, and as such we had to make adjustments like many of you.

Last week on March 12th, the day after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we asked our staff to start working from home to keep everyone here at Everleap safe and healthy. We always had the flexibility and the systems set up to work remotely, but this will be the first time all of our staff will be doing so.

Yesterday, California has instituted a “stay at home” order which means for the foreseeable future our staff will be working from their homes.

Even though our staff could be working in their pajamas, the level of service you expect from us will not change.

If you have concerns, please feel free to contact us.

Stay safe and stay healthy.   



Chrome to Start Warning and Blocking Insecure Downloads

John Meeks On Thursday (2/6/20) Joe DeBlasio from the Chrome Security Team at Google published a blog post outlining the next steps in their campaign to have webmasters move to securing sites and files using HTTPS.



Slight Disruption in Yammer Time

In current times, I’m sure everyone is maxed out with things to do and it is easy to overlook things. Here at Everleap we use Yammer for internal communication.

A little past 12pm (Pacific Standard) our staff encountered the following:

yammer SSL expired
Yammer’s SSL Expired

It appears that the Yammer SSL cert expired. We checked the Office Service Status page on saw this:

Yammer Status
Office Status Page Showing Yammer is Up

After about 10 minutes, the Microsoft team reacted and updated the status page.

Yammer having issues
About 10 minutes later

Checking back with Yammer – the service was back up for our staff!

We witnessed quick reaction from the Microsoft staff.

This type of thing can happen to the best of us. So use this as an example to make sure to keep track of when your SSL certs expire. It’s best to use a contact email address that you check regularly and put reminders early enough in your calendars so you have plenty of time to take care of any renewals.

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