Best of Blazor — April 2026

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    Avatar of ardalisArdalis·7w

    .NET Conf Most Popular Sessions Tool

    Steve Smith (Ardalis) built a CLI tool using .NET 10's new `dnx` feature to pull and display the most popular .NET Conf sessions from YouTube by view count for each year since 2021. The tool is distributed via NuGet and runnable with `dnx ardalis dotnetconf-stats`. The post also shares the top 10 session rankings for 2021–2025, noting that Clean Architecture sessions have consistently ranked in the top 3 every year. It explains why the author keeps presenting on Clean Architecture (sustained high demand) and introduces `dnx` as a convenient way to distribute and run .NET CLI utilities directly from NuGet without local installation.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·5w

    Tired of switching between C# for the back end and JS for the front end?

    Blazor is a Microsoft framework that lets developers build full-stack web applications using C# and HTML, eliminating the need to switch between C# for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. It uses a component-based architecture similar to React or Vue and comes in two flavors: Blazor WebAssembly (code runs client-side in the browser at near-native speed) and Blazor Server (code stays on the server with UI updates pushed via SignalR). A key advantage is code sharing — DTOs, validation logic, and models can be reused across both client and server.

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    Avatar of collectionsCollections·7w

    .NET 11 Preview 1 and 2: what's new across runtime, Blazor, EF Core, and more

    .NET 11 Previews 1 and 2 introduce Runtime Async V2, which moves async/await state machine logic into the runtime for lower overhead and better diagnostics. Native Zstandard compression is now built into the BCL, offering 2–7x faster decompression than GZip or Brotli. Blazor gains TempData for static SSR, IHostedService support in WebAssembly, a new web worker template, relative URI navigation, built-in form label components, an Environment component, a BasePath component, and simplified SignalR configuration. EF Core adds native SQL Server vector search via LINQ with DiskANN indexes. Additional highlights include BFloat16 support for ML, native OpenTelemetry tracing in ASP.NET Core, up to 17% smaller SDK container images, MAUI/Android improvements with CoreCLR as the default runtime, and CLI enhancements.

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