Blazor

After getting done with Blazor desktop applications I tried to build kind of hybrid Blazor WebAssembly application that can run on desktop and in web equally. Although I failed to make it as one single application, I still got it work with a little different architecture. And what’s best – Blazor desktop applications run already now as self-contained executables. Here’s my experiment.

Blazor on desktop is one of latest hot topics and .NET Conf: Focus on Blazor only added more fuel to fire. Blazor seems to come everywhere and it’s unstoppable. One of interesting desktop experiments is WebWindow by Steve Sanderson. It’s cross-platform component to make Blazor WebAssembly applications run on desktop. Let’s take a closer look at WebWindow and Blazor on desktop.

Microsoft made very interesting announcements at .NET Conf: Focus on Blazor online conference. There are many great things are happening and Blazor is also making a fast progress on finding its way to mobile and desktop. Here’s the short overview of what’s happening and what’s coming next.

Future versions of Blazor will support cascading data annotations support meaning that validation of child components is also supported. First experimental bits were released counted hours ago with .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. Here’s how object graph validation will work in Blazor.

I thought first my ASP.NET Core edition of Hello, Blinky will be my last Hello, Blinky for long time. But then something reminded me of Blazor and I thought why not build Blazor edition of Hello, Blinky for Windows IoT Core and Raspberry Pi? After some hacking I made it work. Here’s my Hello, Blinky for Blazor.

Next .NET Core version 3.1 brings some good news to Blazor – partial page classes. Maybe it’s not so big thing for many guys out there but sure great feature for those who like clean solutions. Here’s my story about partial page classes and their comparison with code-behind classes supported already today.

.NET Conf 2019 was full of great news and interesting pieces of information for those who love .NET world like me. It was specially interesting for me to watch presentation The Future of Blazor on the Client by Dan Roth who introduced on-going work with Blazor and plans for near future. Here’s my short overview with explanations about what’s going on.

Client-side Blazor supports DataAnnotations form validation out of box. It’s simple and intuitive but also very flexible – if needed we can use the same mechanism to replace DataAnnotations validation with some other validation component. This blog post introduces form validation in Blazor applications and peeks also into engine of validation mechanism.

After blogging about authentication in server-side Blazor applications and discovering AuthorizationView component I was eager to find out how to use third authentication state Authorizing that is not available for server-side Blazor applications. This blog shows how AuthorizeView and Authorizing state work in client-side Blazor applications.

Preview 6 version of .NET Core is released and one interesting new feature is authentication and authorization for server-side Blazor applications. This blog post goes through work currently done and shows how authentication works with server-side Blazor applications.