Source Generators With Chris Sienkiewicz & JK | NDC Sydney 2022

Source Generators let C# developers inspect user code as it is being compiled. The generator can create new C# source files on the fly that are added to the user’s compilation. In this way, you have code that runs during compilation. It inspects your program to produce additional source files that are compiled together with the rest of your code.

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Tech News #21: Arm64 support in .NET 7, Adobe buys Figma

September was a big month for Microsoft with Azure DevOps to Github and the release of .NET MAUI on the back of .NET 7. We talk shop with Github and functionality improvements on Terraform including Pulumi which now supports heaps of languages. We finish up with some new tech from Apple, Microsoft features and end with some laughs about virus protection. Join us and get up to date news at www.ssw.com.au

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Build Multi-Platform Applications for Mobile, Desktop and Web in .NET with the Uno Platform with Nick Randolph

The ability to deploy the same UI codebase across all platforms is a great productivity booster. But the application lifecycle starts much earlier – at design time. Uno Platform provides a Figma plugin, which eliminates the timely designer-developer handoff. In addition, the platform now provides a set of non-UI extensions to help jump-start your apps. Lastly, the VS Code extensions allows C# and XAML to use VS Code with IntelliSense-like experience, C# and XAML Hot Reload, and more.

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Symmetric encryption, hashing & digital signatures + More – Cryptography 101 | Robert Boedigheimer

Learn the fundamentals of cryptography, including public/private and symmetric encryption, hashing, and digital signatures. Discover which techniques are appropriate for various situations. Review practical real life examples for storing passwords, protecting URL parameters, securely exchanging information with partners, and safely encrypting sensitive information on public web sites. Concepts apply to all platforms, examples will be…

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Fluxor + C#9 – Redux Pattern in Blazor WebAssembly

Redux pattern is well-known in front end development to represent a view with complex logic with an immutable state, updated by a predictable pure function. In this lightning talk, Chris will discuss how to implement the redux pattern in a Blazor WebAssembly project using Fluxor with the latest .NET 5 and C# capabilities to implement…

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