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Lesson 5.17: Upgrade Blazor Project and Dependencies to .NET 5

With the release of .NET 5, it is time for us to upgrade our simple-game solution to the latest version of .NET. Luckily .NET 5 is actually the next progression of .NET Core 3.1, so there aren't many major breaking changes to get this to work. We need to get onto the latest versions because … Continue reading Lesson 5.17: Upgrade Blazor Project and Dependencies to .NET 5 →

How-to: Add bUnit Test Project to Blazor Solution

Having automated tests for our Blazor applications is very important. We can use xUnit (or any other) test framework to write unit tests for the C# classes in our app. However, some part of our logic (even if it's just the databinding logic) lives in Blazor components and pages. For those to be tested, we … Continue reading How-to: Add bUnit Test Project to Blazor Solution →

Lesson 5.16: Redeploy SimpleRPG Game to New Storage Account

Our game is now dependent on our Azure Function web services. All of the local game data has been deleted, so the game no longer runs standalone, and it will not launch if it doesn't have an internet connection during startup. However, since we load and cache the game data from the web services at … Continue reading Lesson 5.16: Redeploy SimpleRPG Game to New Storage Account →

Lesson 1.11: The Wrap

This chapter took us through the basics of creating a console application using the Spectre.Console.Cli library. This library removes a lot of the boilerplate code needed to parse command-line arguments and map them to operations in our code. By adopting their Command pattern, we are able to focus on our code and functionality without having … Continue reading Lesson 1.11: The Wrap →

Lesson 1.10: CLI End to End Tests

Unit tests are just one type of test that we can use to validate our console application. While those are validating that command logic is working in isolation, we also need to verify that our command configuration was done correctly, that our repository is working, and that the command line works the way our users … Continue reading Lesson 1.10: CLI End to End Tests →

Lesson 5.15: Retrieve Remaining Game Data from Services

Lesson 5.14 laid out the detailed description of the changes required to update ItemFactory to fetch ItemTemplate data from our game services. In this lesson, we're going to update the remaining factories to provide the same functionality. We will use the same patterns we did for ItemFactory and make use of the GameServiceClient to communicate … Continue reading Lesson 5.15: Retrieve Remaining Game Data from Services →

Lesson 1.9: Unit Testing Commands

The detailed description for just one test and how to run it got longer than expected, so we are putting the remaining command tests in this separate lesson. We won't go over each test in excruciating detail in this lesson. Instead, we will only focus on the differences or uniqueness of particular tests. For detailed … Continue reading Lesson 1.9: Unit Testing Commands →