Adelaide .NET User Group Podcast

Feb 14 2024 64 ep. 72 mins 38
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Recordings of presentations made at monthly meetings of the Adelaide .NET User Group

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.NET 8 Lightning talks

Feb 14 2024 91 mins  
.NET 8 favourites speed-run, with Ryan Rowston Let's race into the next generation of .NET with a speed-run through a few of my favourite new features is .NET 8. Blazor United, with John Merchant Not a soccer/football team, it's the latest iteration of tooling for writing web apps in .NET What's new in C# 12, with David Gardiner Find out about the 8 new language features that shipp

Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C#, with Simon J. Painter

Dec 13 2023 84 mins  
In 1971, three students from Minnesota thought they could liven up a history lecture by creating a computer game for the students to play, and after several days of work in HP Time Share BASIC, they came up with what turned out to be a significant milestone in the history of computer games - Oregon Trail. Oregon Trail is often regarded as one of the first great computer games, as w

Revolutionizing Online Retail with Blazor, with James Chapman-Smith and Donald Urquhart

Sep 13 2023 100 mins  
An eye-opening journey into the heart of Discount Party Supplies' ERP system, Byblos, as we spotlight the transformative role Blazor has played in pushing our business to the next level. Discover how we at Discount Party Supplies are utilizing Blazor to help harness the power of our unique Lot Management System, enabling the efficient running of our 40-person-strong warehouse team.

Managing granular authorisation in .NET, with Ryan Rowston

Aug 09 2023 64 mins  
We have a challenge: Modern day administrators want to keep a tight rein on who can perform different actions in their systems. Join us and learn how we've evolved our authorisation patterns to grant highly granular permissions to different users, while maintaining developer-friendly patterns in code. In this talk I'll explain how we've approached this challenge, including: How we'

ChatGPT Client with Blazor, GraphQL, .NET and Azure OpenAI Service, with John Merchant

Jul 12 2023 79 mins  
Have you ever loaded the official ChatGPT web application, entered a prompt and wondered: "How did they build that? How did they stream the response to the browser? And most importantly, how could I build it myself, using only C# and .NET"? Then this talk is for you! Especially if you are also interested in learning how leverage the new Azure OpenAI Service offering from Microsoft

From Code to Production - Building .NET Natively on AWS, with Derek Bingham

Jun 14 2023 73 mins  
Come and learn how 'DevPulse', a cloud native .NET application for delivering interactive polls at AWS community expo booths was taken from ideation into production. In this session we will learn how .NET was used to build a cross platform application, delivering messages to an AWS IOT backend, how that backend then aggregated and stored these messages before sending on to a real-t

Moving Beyond RESTful: Why gRPC should be your next choice for .NET API services, with Andy Li

May 10 2023 107 mins  
In this presentation, we will explore why gRPC is a technology worth considering for API service development in .NET. We will discuss the benefits of gRPC over RESTful APIs and provide an overview of the basics of creating a gRPC service project. We will also cover advanced topics, including server-side streaming, bi-directional streaming, authentication, and the use of interceptor

How does Hot Reload even work, with David Wengier

Apr 12 2023 80 mins  
Hot Reload (and Edit and Continue) are reasonably amazing technologies allowing you to apply code changes on the fly, without stopping your application, or seemingly even recompiling it. Whilst a Hot Reload demo is all well and good (and I'm happy to provide one if you like), I personally find it much more interesting to talk about how it works under the hood, why some things don't

Writing XAML like it's 2023, with Matt Lacey

Mar 08 2023 80 mins  
Whether it be MAUI, WPF, WinUI, Xamarin.Forms, UWP, Uno Platform, Avalonia, or any other technology that defines UIs with XAML, there are some common complaints about working with XAML files that have been around as long as XAML has. It can be hard to write, understand, maintain and modify. But, it doesn't have to be this way. The solution isn't abandoning XAML entirely, adopting a

How do I get rid of my ifs, with Calvin Hong

Feb 08 2023 46 mins  
You've been bashing your head against a wall for 5 hours trying to figure out what went wrong. Suddenly you remember what you were thinking when you wrote this code 2 years ago. "But an if statement would be so easy here," you had said. "Nobody will look at this anyway," you had said. Past you was a real jerk, weren't they?!