Rockford Lhotka's Blog

Over the past several weeks I’ve been wrestling with the way in which ASP.NET Core (aspnetcore) and server-side Blazor manage things like context, identity, and state.

The first prerelease of CSLA .NET version 6.0.0 is now in NuGet.

tl;dr - This got long, sorry.

A while ago I switched from my self-hosted dasBlog site to a GitHub-hosted jekyll site.

This is another in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

I’ve been in love with the Surface Pro since it first came out.

This Venturebeat article highlights some of the very real challenges organizations face in acquiring and retaining software development talent.

First, I’m pleased to announce the release of CSLA .NET version 5.5.0, which includes one enhancement and a number of bug fixes.

Originally published on Forbes Nearly every modern software development project relies heavily on open-source software.

This is another in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

I was very excited to see preview 3 of .NET 6 come out, especially with the hot reload enabled for Blazor.

This is another in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

This is another in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

CSLA has been around for over 23 years now, with the first CSLA .NET version released concurrently with .NET Framework 1.0.

This is the sixth post in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

This is the fifth post in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

This is the fourth post in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

This is the third post in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

Now that Microsoft has released .NET 5, you are probably wondering whether you should start using .NET 5, and perhaps more importantly whether you should migrate existing code to .NET 5.

This week I taught a 2 day hands-on lab (HOL) focused on .NET Core, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture, for VS Live.

Months ago I followed in the footsteps of Robert Sirchia as he blogged about setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi devices.

This is the second post in a series about how I got into computers and how my career has unfolded.

From a recent article: Kubernetes and the many projects under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella are advancing so quickly that it can sometimes feel as though the benefits of the open hybrid cloud are, perhaps, not yet evenly distribute…

I’ve noticed a lot of activity on twitter recently, with the goal being to support and foster folks that are early in their career, or considering a career in computing.

Although this initiative from Microsoft is focused on COVID, we know that the pandemic has impacted certain communities far more than others from an economic perspective.

I am thrilled to announce that CSLA .NET version 5.2.0 is now available in NuGet.

We may not be able to travel, so I’m not flying to speaking events.

OK, I know the title of this post is patently obvious.

I’m writing this at the end of March in 2020.

tl;dr I’m very excited about .NET, WebAssembly, Blazor, containers, and Kubernetes right now - and how CSLA .NET helps you create and maintain complex business logic in what I believe to be the future enterprise app dev.

My career started with green screen VT terminals.

I am pleased to announce the release of CSLA .NET version 5.1.0.

In the latest preview of client-side Blazor (3.2.0-preview1.20073.1) the project template has been changed to no longer use a Startup.cs approach, but rather to put all initialization in the Main method of Program.cs.

There is no meaningful difference between SOA and “micro”-services in terms of architecture, benefits, and drawbacks.

The list of widely used languages is pretty well published on the Internet.

WebAssembly is a way to run compiled code in a browser.

Many architectures have been used over the decades.

It has become very clear over the past several years that smart client software development is largely focused on the browser rather than old-style operating systems like Windows, iOS, Android, etc.

I’ve recently blogged about how CSLA 5 supports Blazor and how it supports Uno.

After 15+ years of self-hosting my blog with dasBlog I’ve decided to shift over to using GitHub and Jekyll for a more modern experience - primarily for you as a reader.

I recently blogged about the new support coming in CSLA 5 for Blazor.

I’m excited about two things in our industry right now: containers (specifically Kubernetes) and WebAssembly (specifically Blazor and Uno).

I recently posted about the new gRPC data portal channel coming in CSLA 5.

The new .NET Core 3 release includes support for the gRPC protocol.

During 2018 I gave a talk at some VS Live events discussing how one might migrate existing .NET Framework enterprise apps/code to .NET Core.

tl;dr: We’re just starting on the biggest revolution in smart client and web client development technology in many, many, many years.