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Blazor WebAssembly by Example

By : Toi B. Wright
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Blazor WebAssembly by Example

By: Toi B. Wright

Overview of this book

Blazor WebAssembly makes it possible to run C# code on the browser instead of having to use JavaScript, and does not rely on plugins or add-ons. The only technical requirement for using Blazor WebAssembly is a browser that supports WebAssembly, which, as of today, all modern browsers do. Blazor WebAssembly by Example is a project-based guide for learning how to build single-page web applications using the Blazor WebAssembly framework. This book emphasizes the practical over the theoretical by providing detailed step-by-step instructions for each project. You'll start by building simple standalone web applications and progress to developing more advanced hosted web applications with SQL Server backends. Each project covers a different aspect of the Blazor WebAssembly ecosystem, such as Razor components, JavaScript interop, event handling, application state, and dependency injection. The book is designed in such a way that you can complete the projects in any order. By the end of this book, you will have experience building a wide variety of single-page web applications with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Setting up your PC

For the projects in this book, we use Visual Studio 2019, .NET 5.0, and SQL Server 2019.

All of the projects are built using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition version 16.9.5 with the ASP.NET and Web Development workload. If you need to install Visual Studio 2019, follow the directions in the Installing Visual Studio Community Edition section later in this chapter.

Tip

Although we are using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, any edition of Visual Studio 2019 can be used to complete the projects in this book. Microsoft Visual Studio Code can also be used.

Blazor WebAssembly in .NET 5 requires .NET 5.0. To check the version of .NET that is running on your computer, open the Command Prompt and enter the following command:

dotnet –-version

If your computer is not running .NET 5.0, follow the directions in the Installing .NET 5.0 section later in this chapter.

The final two projects in this book use SQL Server 2019 Express Edition as...