Update ProjectTracker for CSLA 8

[rockfordlhotka]

I have failed to update ProjectTracker for some years now - shame on me!

I started to go down this road again - thinking I'd release CSLA 8 and then do ProjectTracker. Thankfully I brought this idea up on the Discord server, and was called out on my b.s.

So instead, I've decided to update ProjectTracker, but shrink the scope to something more realistic - which is to have only one UI: Blazor.

I'll add other UIs over time - but the big thing is to get the business and DAL layers updated and working with modern CSLA 8, and to have some UI to show how it works, and Blazor is my default UI tech for nearly everything at the moment.

So, here's the PR where I'm doing the work: #3688

Today I removed all the UI projects, updated the app server to .NET 8, and got the business library to compile. I'm sure it isn't correct, but it now compiles. So I have a reasonable start point on which to build.

And yes, @joshhanson314, that ban hammer is still floating out there!! 😀

[joshhanson314]

I am dying laughing. I and the world's weirdest celebrity now.

[Chicagoan2016]

@rockfordlhotka
I am looking at one of the properties in ProjectEdit.cs

    public static readonly PropertyInfo<string> NameProperty = 
      RegisterProperty<string>(nameof(Name));
    [Display(Name = "Project name")]
    [Required]
    [StringLength(50)]
    public string Name
    {
      get { return GetProperty(NameProperty); }
      set { SetProperty(NameProperty, value); }
    }

This property is decorated with some nifty attributes, do you use code generation?

Kind regards

[rockfordlhotka]

No, those attributes are from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations and have been around since around .NET 3.5.

The CSLA rules engine elevates them to "actual rules" so they run within the context of the rules engine - potentially in addition to running in specific UI technologies like ASP.NET MVC.

The attributes are useful in single tenant scenarios. Not so useful in a multi-tenant server scenario because they are hard-coded into the app.

[Chicagoan2016]

I saw the attribute [StringLength(50)] and I thought it was generated by a tool : ). In the past I have worked with a tool that would generate something similar based on sql column, such as varchar(50)