David Pine

This is the last post in a series of four, exploring various C# 12 features. In this post, we’ll explore the “default lambda parameters” feature, enabling developers to express default parameter values in lambdas.

Aliens!! This post is the third in a series of four posts, exploring various C# 12 features. In this post, we’ll dive into the “alias any type” feature, which allows you to create an alias for any type with the using directive.

In this second post in a series of posts covering various refactoring scenarios that explore C# 12 features. In this post, we’ll look at how you can refactor your code using collection expressions, we’ll learn about collection initializers, various expression usages, supported collection target types, and the spread syntax.

C# 12 as part of .NET 8 introduced a compelling set of new features! In this post, we explore one of these features, specifically primary constructors, explaining its usage and relevance. We’ll then demonstrate a sample refactoring to show how it can be applied in your code, discussing the benefits and potential pitfalls. This will help you understand the impact of the change and help influence your adoption of the feature.

Take advantage of your C# skills to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Blazor WebAssembly to develop next-generation web experiences. Built on top of ASP.NET Core, Blazor represents the future of .NET single-page applications (SPA) investments.

Author David Pine, who focuses on .NET and Azure content development at Microsoft, explains how WebAssembly enables many non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run… Show more

Take advantage of your C# skills to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Blazor WebAssembly to develop next-generation web experiences. Built on top of ASP.NET Core, Blazor represents the future of .NET single-page applications (SPA) investments.

Author David Pine, who focuses on .NET and Azure content development at Microsoft, explains how WebAssembly enables many non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run on the client browser. In this book, you'll learn about real-time web functionality with ASP.NET Core SignalR. You'll learn strategies for bidirectional JavaScript interop. David covers component data binding, hierarchical event-driven communications, in-memory state management, and local storage.

This book shows you how to:

Create a feature-rich Blazor app that looks beautiful
Localize an enterprise-scale app as the sole developer using GitHub Actions and Azure Cognitive Services Translator service
Create advanced validation scenarios for input-based components with forms
Automatically deploy and host to Azure Static Web Apps, and rely on HTTP services
Utilize geolocation service native to the browser, as well as native speech synthesis and recognition
Author a custom modal verification mechanism for validating a user
Determine the best approach for building reliable, architecturally sound websites Show less

With Twilio Programmable Video you can add robust video chat functionality to web applications built with Angular and ASP.NET Core. With the Microsoft Azure App Service you can host your video-enabled apps on a fully managed, enterprise-grade cloud platform. Deployment and configuration are easy and take just minutes.

Build a Video Chat App with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Twilio showed you how to integrate the Twilio JavaScript SDK and the Twilio .NET SDK seamlessly with ASP.NET Core and… Show more

With Twilio Programmable Video you can add robust video chat functionality to web applications built with Angular and ASP.NET Core. With the Microsoft Azure App Service you can host your video-enabled apps on a fully managed, enterprise-grade cloud platform. Deployment and configuration are easy and take just minutes.

Build a Video Chat App with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Twilio showed you how to integrate the Twilio JavaScript SDK and the Twilio .NET SDK seamlessly with ASP.NET Core and Angular. This post will show you how to deploy applications built with these technologies to the Azure App Service.

You will learn how to publish your application to the Azure App Service, and securely configure the app on Azure to use the Twilio Video Chat API with the App Service settings. You’ll be able to try out the production applications’ video chat features and verify that it’s correctly configured. Show less

Realtime user interaction is a great way to enhance the communication and collaboration capabilities of a web application. Video chat is an obvious choice for sales, customer support, and education sites, but how can you quickly implement it? Twilio Programmable Video enables you to efficiently add robust video chat to your applications, whether you are using a JavaScript Model-View-Controller framework like Angular or server-side templates.

This post will show you how to create a video… Show more

Realtime user interaction is a great way to enhance the communication and collaboration capabilities of a web application. Video chat is an obvious choice for sales, customer support, and education sites, but how can you quickly implement it? Twilio Programmable Video enables you to efficiently add robust video chat to your applications, whether you are using a JavaScript Model-View-Controller framework like Angular or server-side templates.

This post will show you how to create a video chat application using the Twilio JavaScript SDK in your Angular single page application (SPA) and the Twilio SDK for C# and .NET in your ASP.NET Core server code. You’ll build the interactions required to create and join video chat rooms, and to publish and subscribe to participant audio and video tracks. Show less

TypeScript is an amazing innovation with how we as developers write JavaScript applications.
TypeScript boasts its language services as a first-class citizen. These language services
empower your favorite integrated development environment with advanced statement
completion, refactoring, type-checking, compilation and even flow analysis.
In addition to all these capabilities, the language itself offers a more “grown up” approach to
JavaScript development. As a superset of… Show more

TypeScript is an amazing innovation with how we as developers write JavaScript applications.
TypeScript boasts its language services as a first-class citizen. These language services
empower your favorite integrated development environment with advanced statement
completion, refactoring, type-checking, compilation and even flow analysis.
In addition to all these capabilities, the language itself offers a more “grown up” approach to
JavaScript development. As a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript really is the answer to many
problems.
In this tutorial, we’ll focus on generics in TypeScript. We’ll cover how TypeScript allows
developers to leverage generics, the generic syntax, limitations with generics and other key
considerations. Show less

Anytime I get the chance to write about C#, I'm eager to do so. This time was no System.Exception! C# has been around for over 17 years now, and it is safe to say it's not going anywhere. The C# language team is constantly working on new features and improving the developer experience. In this article join me as I walk through the various versions of C# and share my favorite features from each release. I'll demonstrate the benefits while emphasizing on practicality.

With ASP.NET Core there are various attributes that instruct the framework where to expect data as part of an HTTP request - whether the body, header, query-string, etc. With C#, attributes make decorating API endpoints expressive, readable, declarative and simple. These attributes are very powerful! They allow aliasing, route-templating and strong-typing through data binding; however, knowing which are best suited for each HTTP verb, is vital. In this article, we’ll explore how to correctly… Show more

With ASP.NET Core there are various attributes that instruct the framework where to expect data as part of an HTTP request - whether the body, header, query-string, etc. With C#, attributes make decorating API endpoints expressive, readable, declarative and simple. These attributes are very powerful! They allow aliasing, route-templating and strong-typing through data binding; however, knowing which are best suited for each HTTP verb, is vital. In this article, we’ll explore how to correctly define APIs and the routes they signify. Furthermore, we will learn about these framework attributes. As a precursor to this article, one is expected to be familiar with modern C#, REST, Web API and HTTP. Show less