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Re-Assembling the Web with Web Assembly and Blazor
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Rick Strahl
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
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Chris Williams
Last updated: Saturday, November 22, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - November/December
In this article, Chris Williams presents MonoGame as the modern, open-source successor to Microsoft's XNA framework, enabling cross-platform game development beyond Microsoft devices. He details MonoGame's evolution from XNA, its broad platform support, and offers a practical guide for setting up the development environment, creating basic game projects, rendering text and images, handling input, and implementing animations. Through hands-on examples, Williams aims to empower developers—especially indies—to leverage MonoGame’s capabilities for multi-platform game creation, emphasizing starting small and building foundational skills with this versatile framework.
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Meet the Monkey: A .NET Programmer’s Introduction to Mono
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Opgenorth, Tom
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
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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.
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