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Re-Assembling the Web with Web Assembly and Blazor
Last updated: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - September/October
Rick Strahl explores how Web Assembly and Blazor transform web development by enabling .NET code execution within browser sandbox environments. He highlights Web Assembly's potential to diversify programming languages and reduce JavaScript dependency, while explaining Blazor’s approach of running .NET via a Mono runtime compiled to Web Assembly. Although early-stage and with current limitations—such as performance issues and browser API constraints—Strahl emphasizes the promising future of these technologies to foster more efficient, versatile, and C#-centric web applications beyond the JavaScript monolith.
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XNA is Dead; Long Live the New XNA, MonoGame
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - November/December
If you haven’t explored the open source implementation of XNA 4.x API called MonoGame, now’s your chance to see what exciting things are in store for you. Chris takes us there.
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Meet the Monkey: A .NET Programmer’s Introduction to Mono
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - May/June
Are you curious about cross-platform .NET applications?Do you have a need or an interest in how to write .NET applications that will run on OS X? Do you need to deploy your application to a *nix box? If you’ve answered “Yes” to one of these last two questions or are curious about running .NET code on *nix, then read on.
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.NET Standard 2.0 - Making Sense of .NET Again
Last updated: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Published in: The Web View
In this post I look at what .NET Standard is, how it works and what some of the surrounding issues and impacts are for the .NET eco system.