In the last post, I looked at auto-property enhancements, with several comments pointing out some nicer usages. I recently went through the HtmlTags codebase, C# 6-ifying “all the things”, and auto property and expression bodied function members were used pretty much everywhere. This is a large result of the codebase being quite tightly defined, with small objects and methods doing one thing well. 

.NET applications however rely on the ciphers provided by the OS, and the only way to get new ciphers into the OS is through a patch from Microsoft. Unsupported versions of Windows typically do not receive these patches, so over time you can expect an increasing number of websites to stop working with .NET applications. 

Join Todd, Chris, and Jess as they wade through the waters of the “new” (but not really new) Microsoft frameworks, .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0. 

00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:07 Blazor Project Structure
00:12:14 How Blazor Works
00:20:28 What is an Inventory Management System
00:23:47 Introduction to Clean Architecture
00:30:58 Null Reference Type in .NET 6
00:36:44 Write the View Inventories Use Case
00:45:16 Implement the View Inventories Use Case
00:59:27 Create a Plugin with Dependency Injection
01:08:45 Inject the Use Case in Razor Component
01:17:35 Dependency Injection in Blazor
01:28:08 Page Component - Create the Inventory List Page
01:34:34 SPA Components Best Practice
01:38:07 Databinding and EventCallback in Search Inventory Component
01:52:59 Component Parameters in Inventory List Component
02:03:52 Null Checks
02:06:07 Extract the Inventory List Item Component
02:09:45 Add Inventory Use Case
02:12:10 Implement Add Inventory Repository Methods
02:15:34 NavigationManager
02:17:56 EditForm and Data Validation
02:30:09 Edit Inventory Use Case
02:35:12 Implement Edit Inventory Repository methods
02:43:00 Receive Routing Parameters
02:50:09 Implement Edit Inventory Component
03:03:06 Why we are using Async everywhere 

 dotnet new mvc

 ng new SignalRCore2Client

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" Version="2.0.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR" Version="1.0.0-alpha1-final" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools" Version="2.0.0" />
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Watcher.Tools" Version="2.0.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

 dotnet restore

 dotnet watch run

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR;

namespace SignalRCore2WebApp.Hubs
{
    public class MessageHub : Hub
    {
        public Task Send(string message)
        {
            return Clients.All.InvokeAsync("Send", message);
        }
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
   services.AddSignalR();
   services.AddMvc();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
   app.UseSignalR(routes =>
   {
      routes.MapHub<MessageHub>(path: "message");
    });

  http://localhost:5000/message

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR;
using SignalRCore2WebApp.Hubs;

namespace SignalRCore2WebApp.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        private readonly IHubContext<MessageHub> _messageHubContext;
        public HomeController(IHubContext<MessageHub> messageHubContext)
        {
            _messageHubContext = messageHubContext;
        }

        public IActionResult Index()
        {
            return View(); // show the view
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Index(string message)
        {
            await _messageHubContext.Clients.All.InvokeAsync("Send", message);
            return View();
        }
    }
}

@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Home Page";
}

<form method="post"
      asp-action="Index"
      asp-controller="Home"
      role="form">
  <div class="form-group">
     <label label-for="message">Message: </label>
     <input id="message" name="message" class="form-control"/>
  </div>
  <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

 npm install @aspnet/signalr-client --save

import { Component, OnInit } from "@angular/core";
import { HubConnection } from "@aspnet/signalr-client";

@Component({
  selector: "app-root",
  templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./app.component.css"]
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  hubPath = "http://localhost:5000/message";
  messages: string[] = [];

  ngOnInit(): void {
    const connection = new HubConnection(this.hubPath);
    connection.on("send", data => {
      this.messages.push(data);
    });
    connection.start().then(() => {
      // connection.invoke("send", "Hello");
      console.log("connected.");
    });
  }
}

<div>
  <h1>
    The messages from the server:
  </h1>
  <ul>
    <li *ngFor="let message of messages">
      {{message}}
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

  ng serve -o

 Failed to load http://localhost:5000/message: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed access.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddSignalR();
    services.AddCors(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy("CorsPolicy",
                    builder => builder
                        .AllowAnyOrigin()
                        .AllowAnyMethod()
                        .AllowAnyHeader()
                        .AllowCredentials());
            });
    services.AddMvc();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
   app.UseCors(policyName: "CorsPolicy");

This version is the 112th release of Cake, but just not any release - we've finally hit 1.0 🎉 In this blog post, we will go through some of the major new features of 1.0, which platforms are supported, what to consider when upgrading to Cake 1.0. 

As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3). 

Kent’s rules, from Extreme Programming Explained are:

• Runs all the tests
• Has no duplicated logic. Be wary of hidden duplication like parallel class hierarchies
• States every intention important to the programmer
• Has the fewest possible classes and methods

In my experience, these don’t quite serve the needs of software design. My four rules might be that a well-designed system:

• is well-covered by passing tests.
• has no abstractions not directly needed by the program.
• has unambiguous behavior.
• requires the fewest number of concepts.

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