LINQ (which stands for Language Integrated Query) is a library of collection manipulation methods that makes organizing and picking data out of collections much easier. LINQ can save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent writing complicated for or foreach loops. As with the nature of collections in programming, sometimes you will be working with gargantuan data sets and other times with smaller yet complicated collections.
There is no doubt that VS Code is one of the most popular development IDEs around these days. With clean layouts and a broad library of extensions that cater to an amazing list of development languages, it’s easy to imagine why it’s so popular. However, when it came to C# development, there were comforts that could be found in Visual Studio but not in VS Code. That is until recently…
This year, Microsoft released an extension for VS Code that helps bring those missing comforts of developing C# in Visual Studio to VS Code: the C# Dev Kit extension, which is approaching 1 million downloads with active updates. If you are an API and UI developer looking to stay in a single IDE, or maybe a Linux developer who is not able to install Visual Studio, this should excite you.
In this post, we’ll walk through some of the features that this extension brings to VS Code.
In the final part of the Blazor Server in .NET 6 blog series, we covered how to use data binding and dropdowns with lists and enums. This included a short introduction to setting up an HttpService, making a get call to the API, and viewing the results as a string. For further clarity, I also included a demonstration on how to add an HttpService that uses the built-in .NET HttpClient class to make calls to the D&D 5e API!
Finally, I presented a way to add a dropdown with the available race options that our character can choose from. That concludes my five-part educational series on Blazor Server in .NET 6. I hope you enjoyed it, and learned a little something you can take with you. Thanks for tuning in!
In Part 4 of the Keyhole Blazor Server in .NET 6 series, we covered adding events in our Blazor components. In sum, I demonstrated how to add a service that contains the events that components can listen to with methods to notify when to invoke our events.
After that, we added that service to the BaseComponent. The section is complete with adding the new character to our list of current characters in storage in order to notify all listening components of this event.
I hope you’re enjoying working with Blazor as much as I do so far. See you in part 5, the final part of the blog series, for how to use dropdowns and data binding using both lists and enums!
In part 3 of the Keyhole Blazor Server in .NET 6 series, we installed a free component library called Radzen.Blazer, updated the CharacterInfo component to easily display a Create Character modal, and added the RadzenDialog as a way to standardize our dialog with an easy-to-use component. In the next blog, we will be adding events in our blazor components. See you in part 4!
