As we did with blob storage, we need to setup a storage account and the individual tables in Azure Table storage. In this lesson, we will focus on the steps needed to setup the account and tables through the Azure Portal. Then, we will add all of our game data to the appropriate tables. We … Continue reading Lesson 6.5: Create Azure Tables with Game Data
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Lesson 6.3: Create Blob Storage Repository
In Chapter 5, we created a repository interface (IReadableRepository) and repository implementation (InMemoryReadRepository) that loaded data from embedded resource files. We designed our system with these abstractions because we want to try out several Azure storage technologies, and the repository interface gives our service code a measure of isolation from the data implementation technologies. As … Continue reading Lesson 6.3: Create Blob Storage Repository
Lesson 6.2: Create Blob Storage Container
Azure Blob Storage is an option for saving raw files in containers that can be retrieved and read in our services. We can use a storage account and container to hold our data files. They can be updated by tools, uploaded by the operations team, or edited in Azure directly. Then, the data becomes available … Continue reading Lesson 6.2: Create Blob Storage Container
Lesson 6.1: Introduction to Azure Storage Options
In this chapter, we will investigate various Azure Storage options for our game services. In the previous chapter, our service just read data from resource files. That isn't very useful for most services, but it allowed us to focus on understanding Azure Functions without getting into storage complexities. However, Azure provides many storage capabilities. All … Continue reading Lesson 6.1: Introduction to Azure Storage Options
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
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
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 5.15: 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
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
