Author: DarthPedro

I've been a software engineer for many years. Built my career working on Microsoft technologies. I've done all roles from developer to tester to lead to managing large teams. But I always like to stay on top of technology. Technology changes are happening faster than ever. Keeping up with cloud development and tools is a full-time job. As I learn new things in these new arenas, I will share them with you.

How-To: Verify Blazor Navigation in bUnit

Blazor components and pages can have normal HTML hyperlinks and navigation driven in code. Both forms allow users to move between pages. Blazor has the NavigationManager which allows our code to perform URL navigations. And, bUnit provides a mock NavigationManager to allow test code to request a navigation without actually performing it. Under our test … Continue reading How-To: Verify Blazor Navigation in bUnit →

How-To: Use Class File for Blazor Logic Code

As our logic continues to grow and our testing requirements increase, we will find that it is more efficient to separate our application logic from the rendering logic on pages. This split helps us separate these concerns and build cleaner pages. Also, having the logic within a separate C# class allows us to unit test … Continue reading How-To: Use Class File for Blazor Logic Code →

Lesson 6.7: Surface TableStorageReadRepository to Game Services

Our Table repository is complete and tested, so now we need to surface this new repository to our game services. We will continue to follow the pattern we used throughout this chapter: create typed repository builders and add mapping data to the RepositoryFactory to get these new instances. However, because we are starting to get … Continue reading Lesson 6.7: Surface TableStorageReadRepository to Game Services →

How-To: Use Blazor Code-Behind File

In Blazor, sometimes our page code becomes large and cumbersome. Rather than keep all of the HTML markup and C# code in the same .razor file, we can split our markup and code into separate files. Blazor supports creating code-behind files for the .razor file (similar to other .NET technologies like WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, etc). … Continue reading How-To: Use Blazor Code-Behind File →

Lesson 6.6: Create Table Storage Repository

Now that we have our game data in Azure Table Storage, we need a mechanism for loading that data into our services. To support this, we will implement a new instance IReadableRepository that encapsulates all of the logic for fetching data from Table Storage. The TableStorageReadRepository will follow the pattern that we developed for InMemoryReadRepository … Continue reading Lesson 6.6: Create Table Storage Repository →

How-To: Write bUnit Tests for Pages with Parameters

Page routing parameters allow developers to pass data to pages in their URL. bUnit allows us to pass routing parameters to pages, so that we can validate their behavior with test data. These parameters are set as part of the TestContext rendering process. This works exactly the same way as testing component parameters. First, we must have … Continue reading How-To: Write bUnit Tests for Pages with Parameters →

How-To: Write bUnit Tests for Components with EventCallbacks

Component callbacks allow developers to build Blazor components that fire events to their parent components/pages to notify them of state changes. The parent components can then respond to those changes as well. bUnit supports EventCallbacks as parameters on those components, so that we can validate their behavior. First, we must have a Blazor project and … Continue reading How-To: Write bUnit Tests for Components with EventCallbacks →