Brady Gaster
Principal Program Manager, .NET Team, Microsoft
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Recommended by Brady Gaster
“Like its author, this book will inspire folks to try new things with Blazor and to be excited about the possibilities of building apps it brings. David's delightful style of writing code as eloquent as his prose, coupled with a genuine love for .NET and using it creatively, will make any developer fall in love with web development all over again.” (from Amazon)
Take advantage of your C# skills to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Blazor WebAssembly to develop next-generation web experiences. Built on top of ASP.NET Core, Blazor represents the future of .NET single-page application investments. Author David Pine, who focuses on .NET and Azure content development at Microsoft, explains how WebAssembly enables many non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run on the client browser. In this book, you'll learn about real-time web functionality with ASP.NET Core SignalR and discover strategies for bidirectional JavaScript interop. David also covers component data binding, hierarchical event-driven communications, in-memory state management, and local storage. This book shows you how to: Create a beautiful, feature-rich Blazor appDevelop and localize an enterprise-scale app using GitHub Actions and Azure Cognitive Services TranslatorCreate advanced validation scenarios for input-based components with formsAutomatically deploy and host to Azure Static Web Apps, and rely on HTTP servicesUse a geolocation service and speech synthesis and recognition native to the browserAuthor a custom modal verification mechanism for validating a user