One of the end goals with these recent posts was to outline a basic plugin architecture for WPF. At it’s core it uses reflection to load the plugins but there were a few gotchas along the way. The first was just getting the assemblies to output the required files and finally was loading those assemblies. […]
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Now that we have SignalR integrated into our API, I want to start using it from WPF. So to do this we’re going to add a SignalR chat handler. One of the ideas behind this application was to support multiple types of methods for sending chats using the IMessenger interface provided by CommunityToolkit.Mvvm. That way, […]
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Okay, so we can call a method on the API of our ASP.NET site to send and receive messages to anybody that want’s to send and listen. Next we’ll cover SignalR as another way to get those messages to the client. I’d recommend starting with reviewing Microsoft’s high-level coverage of SignalR. All we’re going to […]
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Now that I have an API for my client to pull from I want to extend my chatter chat application to be able to hit it. Portions of this post were inspired by IAmTimCorey’s video on Background Jobs in ASP.NET Core. Other parts derive from the Microsoft documentation on Sytem.Threading.Timer I’m going to start by […]
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In the previous post I added the EntityFramework nugets to my Web API project and created a Sqlite db using the EntityFramework tools. Here I’m going to add in a Get and Post to my API and interface with the database. First I need to add the database context to my services in the API […]
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So far we’ve covered: Up next is adding an API for our app to talk to and store messages. This will be done with ASP.NET Core Web API, back-ended with a Sqlite database. I’ll start by adding a new ASP.NET Core Web API project to our existing application and call it “ChatterAPI” We’re going to […]
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As mentioned in my last post I wanted to hit on the IMessenger services included with the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm. There is a ton of funtionality with the IMessenger but at it’s core it passes messages between an instance that sends a message and any instances that are registered to receive the message. To do this there […]
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The intention here is to cover some simple basics with getting CommunityToolkit.Mvvm going using dependency injection. There are a ton of of tutorials that go much further in-depth with CommunityToolkit including Microsoft’s own introduction. But as a basic intro let’s start with what CommunityToolkit.Mvvm is. It is a package that integrates the MVVM pattern into […]
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One of the primary frameworks I used to use for DI was Unity Container. It’s a wonderful project but with support from Microsoft for host.services I’ve abandoned Unity Container in favor of the Microsoft solution. The main reason is that I see it everywhere. Maybe it’s the hot, new thing but using it and asking […]
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There is a lot to unpack in that title. Let’s start with the Try-Parse pattern. This pattern is defined in Microsoft’s “Exceptions and Performance” article (which itself comes from Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, 2nd Edition) and is likely one you are very familiar with. Fundamentally the return type […]
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