Hot Chocolate is the premier GraphQL server for .NET. Unlike Rest APIs, GraphQL allows clients to ask for exactly what they need, solving over-fetching. Hot Chocolate 11 brings massive performance improvements and the “Banana Cake Pop” IDE. Schema Definition (Code-First) Handling Relationships (DataLoaders) The “N+1 Problem” is the enemy of GraphQL. Use DataLoaders to batch […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Blazor Component Libraries: Building Reusable UI
Razor Class Libraries (RCLs) allow you to share Blazor components across multiple apps. With .NET Core 3.1 and upcoming .NET 5, they now support including static assets (CSS, JS, images) inside the NuGet package. This guide builds a reusable “Modal” component library. Project Structure Create a new RCL project: Static Web Assets Place CSS in […]
Read more →.NET 5 Preview: What’s Coming This November
.NET 5 unifies .NET Core and .NET Framework. Here’s what to expect when it releases in November. The Unification One .NET going forward C# 9 and F# 5 Single BCL across all platforms Top-level programs Records and init-only setters Performance Significant perf improvements in GC, JIT, and libraries. ARM64 support improved. References .NET 5 Preview
Read more →Building Your First Blazor WebAssembly App
Let’s build a complete Blazor WebAssembly application step by step – a task manager with CRUD operations. Project Structure A Simple Component References Blazor Tutorial
Read more →Blazor WebAssembly is GA: Everything You Need to Know
May 2020 marks the long-awaited General Availability of Blazor WebAssembly. This release allows C# developers to build Single Page Applications (SPAs) that run entirely in the browser using standard web technologies—no plugins required. We explore the trimming (linker) improvements and the architecture of a production-ready Blazor Wasm app. The Download Size Challenge Running .NET in […]
Read more →Blazor WebAssembly Preview: Building Production-Ready SPAs with C# and .NET
Blazor WebAssembly represents Microsoft’s bold vision for web development: write client-side applications in C# instead of JavaScript, running directly in the browser via WebAssembly. In early 2020, with the preview maturing rapidly, enterprises began evaluating Blazor for production scenarios. This comprehensive guide explores architecture patterns, performance optimization, and real-world deployment strategies for Blazor WebAssembly applications. […]
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