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The Playwright tool that automates web testing for JavaScript applications is now out in preview for Python.
10/07/2020
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Microsoft's point man on the Blazor project -- and basically the creator of the project -- Steve Sanderson, is detailing performance best practices for the web development framework that uses C# instead of JavaScript.
09/30/2020
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With Blazor taking the .NET web development world by storm, one of the first announcements during Microsoft's Ignite 2020 developer/IT event was its new support in Azure Static Web Apps.
09/22/2020
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The C#-based Blazor web development framework received a performance boost with the new Release Candidate (RC) of the unifying .NET 5, scheduled for one more RC before go-live general availability in November
09/14/2020
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Thanks to Chris Sainty and Remi Bourgarel, working with local storage from a Blazor application running either in the browser or out of it is relatively easy. Testing your code can be equally easy but only if you set up support the real world of network connections.
09/09/2020
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With .NET 5 release candidates on tap ahead of an official November GA debut, Microsoft has published new documentation for some of the hottest ASP.NET Core components, including Blazor and gRPC.
09/03/2020
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Blazor enhancements show strongly in the list of ASP.NET Core updates included in this week's release of .NET 5 Preview 8, with lazy loading of assemblies for the client-side component heading the list of improvements to the open source framework that allows for web development in C# instead of JavaScript.
08/27/2020
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Developer feedback gathered by Microsoft led to the JavaScript/TypeScript Tools team developing a Visual Studio extension to boost programming projects based on Angular, Google's popular TypeScript-based web application framework.
08/21/2020
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TypeScript hit the v4.0 milestone, featuring a bevy of new features, improvements and fixes as the latest edition of Microsoft's popular open source programming language was said to represent the "next generation" of releases focusing more on expressivity, productivity and scalability.
08/20/2020
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Here's a quick look at what four major third-party Blazor tooling vendors have offered lately for Microsoft's red-hot project that allows for web development with C# instead of JavaScript.
08/11/2020
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Not surprisingly, it's dead easy to create an app in Blazor that runs outside of the browser window and (potentially) in an offline mode. Before you get carried away, though, there are some key design decisions to make.
08/03/2020
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Despite being deprecated by Microsoft in .NET Core 3.0, the wildly popular Newtonsoft.Json JSON serializer still rules the roost in the NuGet package manager system for .NET developers.
07/28/2020
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In announcing updates to web-focused ASP.NET Core development as part of a new .NET 5 Preview 7, Microsoft noted that Blazor WebAssembly -- the client-side component of the Blazor project that allows for C#-based web development instead of JavaScript -- now targets .NET 5.
07/27/2020
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Microsoft's latest update of its Mobile Blazor Bindings project -- which expands the Blazor web-coding-with-C# model to the mobile arena for iOS, Android and other apps -- now does hybrid apps.
07/27/2020
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The latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.7 adds an experimental Razor editor for working with Blazor, boosting web development with C#/.NET instead of JavaScript.
07/16/2020
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Oft-cited No. 1 development tool Visual Studio Code has a new debugger for the oft-cited No. 1 programming language, JavaScript, in the new June 2020 release of Visual Studio Code, version 1.47.
07/10/2020
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Microsoft updated tools for its functional programming-oriented F# language and announced a beta for the milestone TypeScript 4.0 release scheduled for Aug. 4.
06/29/2020
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Microsoft shipped Preview 6 of the unifying .NET 5 framework, with several updates being added to the web site development component of the framework -- ASP.NET Core -- including the addition of a Blazor WebAssembly template.
06/25/2020
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Microsoft officially released gRPC-Web for .NET, aiming the RPC-based (Remote Procedure Call) framework at browser-based apps, including those built with Blazor, the red-hot project that allows for creating browser/web apps with C# instead of JavaScript.
06/23/2020
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Microsoft today announced the fifth previews of .NET 5.0 and Entity Framework Core 5.0 en route to a November general release date, though not all of the planned functionality will be finalized by then because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
06/10/2020
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This week saw two third-party vendors of dev tools -- UX and UI toolkits and controls -- release new offerings that include support for two of Microsoft's main open source frameworks, the cross-platform .NET Core 3.1 and Blazor, which allows for creating browser-based web applications with C# instead of JavaScript.
06/05/2020
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Microsoft is furthering its work to target mobile app development with Blazor, the ASP.NET Core offering that originally was developed to allow for C#-based web development instead of JavaScript through the use of WebAssembly for the client side.
05/28/2020
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Microsoft's embrace of open source is paying off, says Stack Overflow in its new developer survey, as TypeScript has vaulted into second place (behind Rust) as the "most loved" programming language, pulling away from Python, with which it tied in last year's survey.
05/28/2020
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Blazor guru Steve Sanderson provided a peek at what's coming up for Blazor during a Build presentation this week.
05/23/2020
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It's been a long time coming, but .NET developers can now finally enjoy a full-stack, production-ready Blazor framework for creating web applications with C# instead of JavaScript. At Microsoft's big Build developer conference today, the company announced that Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 -- the client-side component -- is joining Blazor Server.
05/19/2020