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Automate your browser using Playwright MCP server with GitHub Copilot
This article demonstrates the usage of MCP servers to automate browser with the help of GitHub Copilot, within Visual Studio Code. This can assist in developing automated end-to-end (E2E) tests including running explorative and even vulnerability tests or in automating workflows. Wikimedia: floppy disk of Netscape Navigator Installation Preconditions: Visual Studio Code and node must be installed. Create a new package, install playwright and the actual browser binaries: npm i

julienmesser
Dec 27, 20253 min read


Embedding WinForms Components in an HTML5 Page
When upgrading a WinForms (or WPF) .NET application with a HTML5 WebUI , it can be useful to render selected WinForms (or WPF) components directly within the HTML5 content, offering a seamless user experience: To achieve this, different approaches are possible: Use the legacy WebBrowser (Internet Explorer) control which is still capable to display ActiveX. However, the long‑term viability is uncertain. Render the WinForms component on another machine (or a virtual machine) an

julienmesser
Dec 20, 20253 min read


Bringing Your Designs to Life with Builder.io Fusion
2025 is meant to be the year of AI agents, lately I evaluated builder.io and I'd like to share a brief review. What is builder.io...

julienmesser
Aug 10, 20253 min read


The responsive pill of your dream
See full prescribing information for complete details Time for a new post, let's dive into an another exciting try with React... Today's...

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Feb 2, 20252 min read


Create and publish a React UI component library with Storybook
Hi again, in this post I will give step-by-step instructions to create a UI component library from scratch and publish it using Storybook, inspired by different tutorials. What is Storybook ? it's a graphical workshop for building UI components. Especially it displays your components in a web-site, including the documentation and code examples. The different steps are: Creation of a React app with Vite Configure the app with Tailwind (this step is not mandatory) Install Story

julienmesser
Jan 4, 20253 min read


Tree Menu List component in React
In this post we will show how to create a Tree Menu List component in less than 200 lines of code: Resources: GitHub repository Tree Menu...

julienmesser
Dec 31, 20242 min read


Natural text interpreter
I have been confronted with following problem: 2000 pages of textual test-procedures, nobody want to have anything to do with it. I will...

julienmesser
May 25, 20242 min read


(Very) quickstart .NET Maui with Visual Studio Code
This tutorial describes how to install the .NET Maui and create your first app in only a few minutes. Maui means "Multi-platform App UI",...

julienmesser
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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