Week 45 of the year 2020

Event: ".NET Conf" .NET 5 launch (November 10-12, 2020).

• .NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release. We're also celebrating our 10th anniversary and we're working on a few more surprises. You won't want to miss this one.
• Agenda.

Added items

Components & Utilities

• Material.Blazor - An alternative Material Theme Razor Component Library. Material.Blazor focuses sharply on giving you pure markup from Google's material-components-web - we don't try to sit between you and your use of Google's CSS and SASS because they do it better than we ever could. We also have some cool "plus" components. See our demo and comprehensive documentation.

Videos

• Blazor Train: Basic Authentication and Authorization - November 02, 2020 - Carl shows you how to use ASP.NET Core Identity for basic authentication and authorization using a SQL Server.
• .NET 5 Migrating NuGet Packages - October 31, 2020 - .NET 5 Migrating NuGet Packages, by Ed Charbeneau.
• .NET 5 migration pains - October 16, 2020 - .NET 5 migration pains, by Ed Charbeneau.

Articles

• Implement a Blazor full text search using Azure Cognitive Search - November 2, 2020 - This article shows how to implement a full text search in Blazor using Azure Cognitive Search. The search results are returned using paging and the search index can be created, deleted from a Blazor application. Source code .
• Unified Blazor UI in the Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 5 - October 30, 2020 - Unified Blazor UI in the Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 5.
• Should your enterprise pick Angular, React or Blazor? - October 27, 2020 - Should your enterprise pick Angular, React or Blazor, by Jon Hilton for Progress Telerik.
• Blast Off with Blazor: Get to know Blazor and our project - October 26, 2020 - Building a website from the ground up with no Blazor experience required. All you’ll need is a passing knowledge of C# and .NET. Source code .

Podcasts

• Oqtane and OSS with Shaun Walker - November 2, 2020 - Shaun Walker is the original creator of Oqtane and DotNetNuke, web application frameworks which have the earned the recognition of being among the largest, most successful, pioneering Open Source projects native to the Microsoft platform. He was recognized by Business In Vancouver in 2011 as a leading entrepreneur in their Forty Under 40 business awards, and is currently the Chair of the Project Committee for the .NET Foundation. Shaun is currently a Technical Director and Enterprise Guildmaster at Cognizant Softvision. Shaun joined The 6 Figure Developer to talk about his newest project, Oqtane, a Modular Application Framework for Blazor, as well as Open Source Software, and The .NET Foundation. Duration: 44 minutes.