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The most common way people get scammed is by social engineering. I learned a few simple scam-prevention techniques from my co-hosts on the podcast Security This Week, where we teach security topics th...

I love using a cloud-based virtual machine as my developer machine. A moment’s thought will reveal why. A VM is isolated. You can set up a developer environment on a per-project basis. You can access...

Blazor’s robust component model makes MVVM easy peasy. In these two episodes of BlazorTrain - a YouTube weekly by Carl Franklin - you’ll learn the WHY and how of using ViewModels in Blazor. Episode 24...

Carl Franklin talks to Microsoft’s Daniel Roth about what’s new in .NET 5 for Blazor. Click here for the video. Click here for more episodes of BlazorTain

In episode 9 of BlazorTrain I explain binding in Blazor to a professional MVC developer who had never seen Blazor under the hood. For more episodes check out https://blazortrain.com

In episode 13 of BlazorTrain I show how to use JavaScript Interop in Blazor to automatically resize the divs on your page as the user resizes the browser. It’s a good example of calling JavaScript fro...

In BlazorTrain episode 16 I show off a nice set of interfaces and managers for implementing a complete data access solution. The controllers use a generic EF Core data manager to access data given an...

I’ve developed a couple patterns for managing and storing application state in a Blazor application. I described these in BlazorTrain episode 15 and episode 17 . More free episodes at https://blazortr...

So you want to add some Blazor pages to your ASP.NET Core MVC application? This 12-minute video shows you exactly how in only seven steps. You can check out Brian MacKay’s Github repo at https://githu...

With a little JavaScript Interop you can play mp3 files in your Blazor application. The first step is to gather a few mp3 files you can play in your app. Remember, these will be playing in the browser...

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new preview of Blazor WebAssembly. This is very exciting because we get a first look at debugging WebAssembly Blazor apps in Visual Studio. Other features include Auto-...

This little demo is based on a Gist written by Steve Sanderson where he shows how to persist state in the browser using sessionStorage. His demo shows how to persist the counter value but I wanted to...

I have decided to cancel the April Online Blazor Workshop because Blazor Client (WebAssembly) hasn’t settled yet, and the Preview code is affecting other packages I use. It’s still a moving target. Me...

Someone recently asked me why I was so enthusiastic about Blazor. This person didn’t like the programming experience as much as their JavaScript framework. So, here’s the deal. If you are happy with y...

So, you’ve decided to use Blazor, but you’re not sure which hosting model to use: Client (WebAssembly) or Server (SignalR-based). Wouldn’t it be great if you could write one version of your app that c...

Server-Side Blazor is indeed magical due to a hidden communications system keeping a persistent connection between the browser and the server: SignalR. SignalR establishes a circuit for every client a...

I recently put together a small network that required a couple very lightweight PCs running Windows 10. That’s when I stumbled across this little gem, the W5 Pro Mini PC which I picked up on Amazon fo...

By design, when you build a server-side Blazor app, and you pass parameters to a component when those parameters change inside the component the changes are not reflected in the host. With a little ha...

The goal is to develop a little bit of UI that can be reused in different Blazor projects or with different data. The component knows nothing about the class it’s working with. The Type is supplied by...

I was just watching the latest Xamarin Show with James Montemagno and was pleasantly surprised to see that Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0 Service Release 2 (September, 2017) added support for Mac Deskt...