A personal Blazor blog.
Showing posts from 2024.
The Blazor web app template introduced in .NET8 has some excellent features, but also has some subtle gotchas that can cause performance issues if you don't handle them.
This post explains a utility class I wrote that will keep data access to a minimum when dealing with both server and client rendering, as well as caching data between navigations around the client code.
An updated version of my old message broker that allows MVVM-style messaging to be done between Blazor components.
Unlike the previous version, this one is naturally async and thread-safe
I wanted to speed up the performance of a Telerik Blazor grid. This post documents an extension method I wrote to enable this using EF Core. This was at least as fast (if not faster) than the previous method i wrote based on Dapper, and has some significant extra features
Last month, I explained how we had achieved a significant performance improvement by using Dapper to pull the data from the database, rather than using EF Core.
Whilst showing this to a colleague, he reminded me that EF Core has a FromSqlRaw method that does pretty much the same thing. Assuming that EF Core would be slower than Dapper, I didn't give it much thought at the time. However, being a compulsive tinkerer, I decided to take a closer look.
This post explains my findings, and what I did with them
Due to some performance issues, I decided to try using Dapper with the Telerik grid for Blazor. This post documents the (excellent) results, and shows a useful extension method that makes this very simple.
Having upgraded an ASP.NET Core project from .NET7 to .NET8, I got an error when trying to publish it. This blog post is my note to remind me how to fix it
Inspired by an amazingly concise implementation of John Conway's game of Life that I saw written in APL, I decided to see if I could write Life in a single Linq expression.
This (rather long and rambling) post documents my attempts, my eventual success and the result that it made me want to learn APL!
Not rocket science, nor anything new or startling, but I seem to bump into this issue every now and then, and always have to go searching to remind myself how to fix it.