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September 2018

Volume 33 Number 9

Web Development - C\# in the Browser with Blazor

[Web Development]

C# in the Browser with Blazor

Jonathan Miller

Blazor is the new Microsoft experimental framework that brings C# into any browser without a plug-in. But an application in a browser isn’t all that useful unless it can access external data and services, so you'll learn how a Blazor app can call freely available Web services on the Web.

 The Working Programmer - How to be MEAN: Routing AngularColumn

[The Working Programmer]

How to be MEAN: Routing Angular

Ted Neward

Unlike in most traditional Web applications, single-page frameworks like Angular require a mechanism to provide the kind of “scoping” or “segmenting” that page boundaries provide. Within Angular, that mechanism is called “routing,” as Ted Neward explains.
Azure - Managing Event Delivery with Azure Event Grid

[Azure]

Managing Event Delivery with Azure Event Grid

David Barkol

David Barkol follows his February 2018 article that introduced Event Grid by delving into how events are delivered and exploring the options for retry policies, invalid events and events that aren’t successfully delivered.

 Cutting Edge - Never Mind JavaScript, Here’s BlazorColumn

[Cutting Edge]

Never Mind JavaScript, Here’s Blazor

Dino Esposito

Blazor is an experimental framework for building .NET-based single page applications for the Web that run in the browser through WebAssembly. Learn how this promising approach could make a lot of developers forget all about JavaScript.
Microservices - Architect Blockchain Applications as Microservices

[Microservices]

Architect Blockchain Applications as Microservices

Stefano Tempesta

This article presents design principles, artifacts and code samples for building blockchain applications using a microservice architecture style and deploying them on the Azure Blockchain platform.

 Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin Productivity and Platform Improvements for Visual Studio 2017

[Xamarin.Forms]

Xamarin Productivity and Platform Improvements for Visual Studio 2017

Alessandro Del

Alessandro Del Sole walks through the latest updates to productivity tools and platform support in Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017, from the improved XAML editor to new features like FlexLayout and the Visual State Manager.
Don't Get Me Started - Time of the SeasonColumn

[Don't Get Me Started]

Time of the Season

David S. Platt

There was an era when media was rooted in time. From Saturday morning cartoons to Disney's Wonderful World of Color on Sunday evenings, broadcast media offered a shared cadence that no longer exists in a world of on-demand streaming.

 Editor's Note - .NET in the BrowserColumn

[Editor's Note]

.NET in the Browser

Michael Desmond

The ASP.NET Blazor project aims to do what efforts like Silverlight could not—enable developers to write .NET-based Web apps for the browser without a plug-in.