An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor: How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework

My first really interesting job was in the mid 70's in production scheduling - interesting, and engaging, because it was a problem solved almost completely with just logic. Balance raw materials, batch sizes, packaging machines, back-orders, marketing predictions - and have fallbacks. I did have a printed stock status, but that was where the computer's role ended. Beyond that all I needed was a ten-key calculator, manual typewriter, and access to a Xerox machine. That was all good, but it was wonderful when, in 1978, serendipity sent me to computer school. I was just trying to get the last of the G.I. bill money I was entitled to. I loved it, because it was even more purely logic and it could be organized in strange and wonderful new ways. I was hooked as soon as I grasped the concept of flow charts. The years flowed by - COBOL (interminably it seemed), Forth, C, C++, C#. All the latter learned on spec while working in COBOL but all paying off in short order. And all fun to learn and program. Then the internet came along. Even then it was fun and satisfying to use WinINet to push and pull to the Internet from desktop Windows apps. But at some point I had to start programming for browsers; and programming became, of necessity, more about keeping server and client in sync than the actual goal of the application. ASP, Web Forms, jQuery, Angular, etc. All kludges that got kludgier as time went on. In Dot Net Core, although admittedly the most flexible web development platform I'm aware of up until now, string stink is so bad it will bring down your whole site if two occurrences that should match, buried deep in the code in some JavaScript or JSON, don't. Tedious to find, and it brings development to a complete halt until you do. But maybe the years in the wilderness are coming to an end. Maybe there is a development platform that will find all your mis-matched strings at compile-time. Not going to protect you from "object reference not found", at run- time, but what does? Even COBOL had ABENDs. So I'm really excited about Blazor because it allows me to create web applications without using JavaScript or even TypeScript (I still can if I need to, but, I really, really, like to avoid it). And best of all, no "string stink" not caught by the compiler. I needed a book that starts from simple principals and walks me though creating full business applications. This book provides that. The pictures and diagrams really help explain how the events and binding work. It covers database interaction and some advanced topics like state management and templates, but, it does not cover all subjects, such as component libraries. But the book is called an “Introduction” not a “Complete Resource” so, I won’t downgrade my review. Do you need to learn Blazor? I didn't need C, C#, or C++ when I learned them, but the last 30 years would have been a lot less satisfying doing maintenance on code just like that I wrote in the preceding 10, instead of programming with cutting-edge tools that I only learned because they were interesting. I think it's worth learning, even if you don't think you can use it in the near future, because it allows programming to be more about devising the logic to solve the problem at hand than it has been since before Al Gore invented ASP. I bought Borland's C++ compiler years ago strictly to learn an object-oriented language; where would I be now without that?

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Very good step-by-step. Excellent screen shots.

This is the best book to use for an introduction to Microsoft's new programming language, Blazor. The book is filled with examples, images, and step by step demonstrations. As a bonus the author gives you access to his website with downloadable code, examples, and YouTube Videos. If I could give this book 10 stars, I would.

This book was exactly what I was looking for, something to quickly show me how to create Blazor applications. I am already familiar with web forms so Blazor has been easy for me to pick up. The book is mostly diagrams and I was able to go through it pretty quickly.

This book is a very good entry point in learning Blazor. The author explains the topics really well using screenshots with arrows and labels.

This book is simple, concise, and clear. I like the illustrative style that shows the visual steps required when using Visual Studio. You'll be writing your own Blazor apps in no time!

Concise but a very good book to get you started with Blazor

A reasonable book but not for this price, it should have been a third of the price.This is only an introduction to singular example applications, all documented on the linked web-site.It does not cover what the Blazor concept is nor how to implement general purpose application. All the code and screen shots are lifted directly from the associated web-site, which are based on Mircosoft on-line presentations.Badly laid-out screen-shots. The book 'view-inside' was in colour, but the book is in greyscale, with excessive repition and copious blank lines.Save yourself the money, and instead go directly to the Microsoft on-line presentations..

Accurate, all labs worked

Is an extensive tutorial but in a book format. Great!

Good one for beginners... well organized topics...nice presentation...with screenshots and images very easy to follow examples... overall good way to start with blazor