How-To: Create New Page in Blazor

In Blazor, a page is the basic unit of navigation. It is the top-level component that can be reached via a URL So, when we want a new view in your Blazor app, we will need to create a new page. In all other aspects, a page and a component have equivalent functionality. First, we … Continue reading How-To: Create New Page in Blazor →

How-To: Write First bUnit Test

bUnit is a testing library for Blazor components. Its goal is to make it easy to write comprehensive, stable unit tests for these components. We will learn the steps to create our first bUnit test from setup to rendering to validation. This first test will be very simple to allow us to focus on the mechanics of creating the … Continue reading How-To: Write First bUnit Test →

Lesson 5.18: The Wrap

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 →

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 →