Welcome Players! On this site we make games with ASP.NET Core and Blazor and have some fun while learning how to do it ourselves.

This site will be updated with new examples as they are made. In the meantime, check out the existing games below. 

If you haven’t tried Xamarin yet, now is the time! Read this free white paper from Syncfusion to learn how Xamarin can improve your cross-platform development:

• Deliver apps faster by sharing code across platforms, using one code base and UI.
• Use best-in-class development tools, like Visual Studio.
• Produce genuine native apps that don’t compromise the end user experience.
• And more! 

String interning is a technique used in C# to improve the efficiency of string comparison and manipulation. It allows strings that have the same value to be stored in the same location in memory 

Security Advisory Notice for 16.6.2

CVE-2020-1108 / CVE-2020-1108.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 and .NET Core 3.1. Customers who use any of these versions of .NET Core should install the latest version of .NET Core. See the Release Notes for the latest version numbers and instructions for updating .NET Core.

CVE-2020-1202 / CVE-2020-1203 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector or the Visual Studio Standard Collector fails to properly handle objects in memory.

CVE-2020-1293 / CVE-2020-1278 / CVE-2020-1257 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly handles file operations

Top Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6.2

• Visual Studio 2019 16.60 hang at run or build when modified not saved in C++/CLI project
• An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualStudio.DesignTools.WpfTap.dll
• Recurring null reference when reopening documents
• "Create new project" dialog search does not find templates for third-party language providers
• IntelliSense shows that "tilde-slash" (~/) points to ASP .NET Core 3.1 project root instread of wwwroot subfolder after upgrading Visual Studio Enterprise 16.5.6->16.6.0
• Fixed a compiler error (error C2475: redefinition; 'constexpr' specifier mismatch) affecting std::atomic when compiled as C++/CX in C++17 mode.
• URL completion values and format was fixed in Razor views. App-relative URL format is now used again and the values in the URL completion list show files and folders rooted under app root, i.e. wwwroot.
• Fixed a crash when using snippets.
• Restore item templates that could be hidden by extensions.

Guest Jon P Smith shows how he built a demo e-commerce book selling site that uses EF Core. He started with 700 books then scaled through 100,000 books to ½ million books. At each stage he compares the performance of each improvement, and the extra work to get that performance. 

Console Apps are considered unimportant nowadays. I want to show why they are not IMHO and how to approach them after the latest C# updates. 

This series of articles show "how" to achieve architecture with decoupled infrastructure concerns so that the end solution is simple to follow and maintain.