Category: .NET

.NET (dotnet) is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

So, there are various implementations of .NET (dotnet). Each implementation allows .NET code to execute in different places—Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and many more. This framework has two main versions:

  1. Framework is the original implementation of .NET. It supports running websites, services, desktop apps, and more on Windows.
  2. Core is a cross-platform implementation for running websites, services, and console apps on Windows, Linux, and macOS. .NET Core is open source on GitHub.

Then, Xamarin/Mono is a .NET (dotnet) implementation for running apps on all the major mobile operating systems, including iOS and Android.

The .NET Standard is a formal specification of the APIs that are common across .NET implementations. This allows the same code and libraries to run on different implementations.

Therefore, the two major components of .NET (dotnet) Framework are the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Framework Class Library.

  • The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the execution engine that handles running applications. It provides services like thread management, garbage collection, type-safety, exception handling, and more.
  • The Class Library provides a set of APIs and types for common functionality. It provides types for strings, dates, numbers, etc. The Class Library includes APIs for reading and writing files, connecting to databases, drawing, and more.

Summarize, .NET (dotnet) applications are written in the C#, F#, or Visual Basic programming language. Code is compiled into a language-agnostic Common Intermediate Language (CIL). Compiled code is stored in assemblies—files with a .dll or .exe file extension.

At the end, when an app runs, the CLR takes the assembly and uses a just-in-time compiler (JIT) to turn it into machine code that can execute on the specific architecture of the computer it is running on.

Upload/Download Files using HttpClient

Enrico
C# .NET language

In this new post, I show you how to upload/download files using HttpClient in C# and .NET Core. Creating a new version of the Markdown Editor component for Blazor, I face some issues with the file upload. So, I was working to find a solution and now I can tell you how to do it. First, I will take a look at how to send multipart MIME data to a Web API using HttpClient. We will create two applications to demonstrate the data transfer between the client side and the server side. The server-side…

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DataTable component for Blazor

Enrico
DataTable for Blazor

I have just released a new DataTable component for Blazor WebAssembly and Blazor Server. The NuGet package is available here. The source code will be available soon on GitHub. This component supports client/server side paging, filtering and sorting. DataTable in action Installation So, first install the package from NuGet or execute this command or Then, open your index.html or _Host.cshtml and add the CSS in the head of the page and then the script at the bottom of the page Then, add in your _Imports.razor file the following using: Also, in the…

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How to Export Data to Excel in Blazor

Enrico

In this new post, I’m going to show how to export data to Excel in Blazor WebAssembly or Server. Creating and exporting data to Excel file is one of the frequently used feature in web apps. First, for creating an export in Excel, I will use a free library that is a NuGet package. ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API. So, you can download the full source…

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