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We sit with Simon Ziegler and Mark Stega of Material.Blazor to discuss the project, Material.Blazor, a Material design component library for Blazor.

Featuring: Safia Abdalla (@captainsafia), Jon Galloway (@jongalloway), Simon Ziegler (@SimonZieglerUK), Mark Stega (@MarkStega)

Community links: https://www.theurlist.com/community-links-december-8

#Blazor

gRPC-Web allows browser based applications to call into gRPC services via a special proxy. .NET developers are now able to build and consume services that use gRPC-Web using the Grpc.AspNetCore.Web NuGet package.

In this episode, James Newton-King joins Cecil to explain how gRPC-Web works and show us what the code looks like to support this feature.

[01:40] - What is gRPC about?

[03:44] - How does gRPC use HTTP/2?

[07:14] - Recognizing errors with gRPC streams?

[09:12] - How does gRPC-Web work?

[11:14] - gRPC-Web in .NET

[12:51] - Understanding proxies

[14:10] - ASP.NET gRPC streaming (Demo)

[16:21] - gRPC-Web alongside other gRPC services

[18:04] - Performance benefits with gRPC-web

gRPC-Web for .NET now available

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/grpc-web-for-net-now-available/

Use gRPC in browser apps

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/grpc/browser?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli

Introduction to gRPC

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/grpc?WT.mc_id=dotnet-00000-cephilli

Ahmet is a student from Belgium working towards his bachelor's degree. His project is called Time 2 Lance. It lets you post jobs that you need help working and allows interested parties to sign up to help you get them completed.

Ahmet's project used ASP.NET Core, Azure DevOps, and Azure Web Apps!

Aditya Oberai is a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador from India. His project is called Code Capture. Its goal is to bridge the gap between typing and writing down code on paper. It also hosts sessions that you can try out to learn some basic programming concepts.

His application was built with Xamarin Forms and Twilio. The project is open source and available on GitHub.

https://github.com/code-capture/CodeCapture-Xamarin

#Xamarin #MobileDev #Dotnet

Theodora Tataru is originally from Romain and is pursing a degree is software development. During the summer, her internship was cancelled so she took the time to learn how to build mobile applications with Xamarin.

Her project is called College Diary. It helps students track their progress during the academic year. She used tons of great tools like Syncfusion controls, Firebase, GitHub, and of course Xamarin!

Head over to GitHub now to check our the project or even download it to your mobile device

https://github.com/DoraTheodora/CollegeDiary.

Sam (陈 乐凯) is a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and is very new to .NET. His project is called E-Portfolio. It allows mentors and student to share updates about projects they’re working on.

The project was built with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages.

Leslie Ramirez is a Computer Science student from the Dominican Republic. Her project is called Kid Care. It uses machine learning to do predictive analysis of the physical therapy applied to children with between the ages of 5 -10 that suffer from  Spastic Cerebral Palsy.

Her project uses ASP.NET Core, Azure Functions, and Azure DevOps!

Israel Ulelu is a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and is also student from the University of Nigeria. His project is called Detectify. It uses Azure Cognitive Services to detect faces in images and make predictions based on facial features.

His project was built with Xamarin and C#.

Anton Kislyakov is one of our Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors from Russia. For his project, he created a custom plugin manager for the Cakewalk recording tool. He decided to work on this project because the existing plugin experience was missing some features he wanted.

He built it using C#, WPF, and the .NET Framework.

https://github.com/vdetstvepil/Plugin-Manager

Your GraphQL schema is a contract of the data that clients can request from your API. A well designed schema is essential for any GraphQL enabled application.

In this episode, Cecil is joined by Michael Staib to talk about some important aspects of GraphQL schema design with the Hot Chocolate framework.

[00:38] - Overview of GraphQL schema design

[02:44] - Defer loading portions of the schema

[03:52] - Discussing schema first design

[05:11] - Using resolvers in HotChocolate

[06:51] - Retching data with fragments

[10:42] - Understanding Query types

[13:03] - Defining schema using the SchemaBuilder

[14:46] - Working with multiple IDs

[18:11] - Structuring mutations

[20:05] - Returning error responses in GraphQL

[23:33] - Learn more about GraphQL with the free workshop

Getting started with GraphQL on ASP.NET Core and Hot Chocolate - Workshop

https://github.com/ChilliCream/graphql-workshop

Getting started with GraphQL and Hot Chocolate

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/On-NET/Getting-started-with-HotChocolate

Creating Web Apis with ASP.NET

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api