Over the course of this chapter we learned quite a bit of new technology and patterns. This chapter really focused on taking our SimpleRPG game to production in Azure and learning how to use Azure Function to build RESTful web services. We moved our game from a single, self-contained unit to retrieving game data from … Continue reading Lesson 5.18: The Wrap
Tag: Blazor
App-Idea 1: Bin2Dec
Our first project (Bin2Dec) will be a converter that takes binary numbers from input strings and converts them to their decimal value. And, we will add the ability to convert back from decimals to binary numbers as well. There are several converters in the project list, so we will create a single Blazor app with … Continue reading App-Idea 1: Bin2Dec
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
How-To: Create Blazor WASM Project
Here are the quick steps to create a Blazor WebAssembly project for .NET 5 in Visual Studio. The basic template creates some extra pages and components, so we will also clean it up to produce a minimal project with a home page. This is a great starting point for all of our Blazor projects. Initial … Continue reading How-To: Create Blazor WASM Project
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 5.14: Use Service Client to Retrieve ItemTemplates From Game Services
In this lesson, we will refactor the ItemFactory to use the GameServiceClient to load item data from our game services rather than from the local resource file. We will fetch the ItemTemplates during the application startup so that any latency is part of the launch. We already have loading logic and a progress indicator at … Continue reading Lesson 5.14: Use Service Client to Retrieve ItemTemplates From Game Services
Lesson 5.13: Build Reusable Service Client for Game Engine
After spending most of this chapter working to create our game services, we are going to return to the SimpleRPG game engine. We want to replace our local game data files with requests to our game services. That way we can retrieve updated data from the services and cache it locally for the running game … Continue reading Lesson 5.13: Build Reusable Service Client for Game Engine
Azure Static Web Apps with Blazor WebAssembly
Azure has Static Web Apps functionality integrated with Blazor now, but only works with GitHub as the source repository for the preview version. This article has a great description of how to get it working. It appears that the Azure Static Web Apps functionality really streamlines the process for building CI/CD for these types of … Continue reading Azure Static Web Apps with Blazor WebAssembly
Lesson 5.1: Introduction to Serverless Architecture in Azure
In the last few years, the concept of serverless computing has become much more prominent, but what does that actually mean? There are clearly servers in the cloud running code to implement our web application or service. But with serverless cloud implementations, we free developers from infrastructure management and allow the cloud providers to manage … Continue reading Lesson 5.1: Introduction to Serverless Architecture in Azure
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