.NET Rocks!

WebAssembly and Blazor with Steve Sanderson

Is Silverlight back? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Sanderson about a demo he did at NDC Oslo that blew some minds. The demo involved using WebAssembly to put a version of the .NET Runtime and C# into the browser. Yes, that's right, Steve found a way to write C# that runs in the browser with NO PLUGIN. It's only an experiment, and there's no XAML to be found, so it's not really Silverlight, but it certainly gets you thinking - what if you could run any language you wanted in the browser? What would your world be like then?

Guests:

Steven Sanderson

Steve Sanderson is a developer on the .NET team at Microsoft. He focuses on making .NET better for application developers, with a focus on AI and the web.

Links:

• Ketofest http://ketofest.com/
• Paint3D https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/paint-3d/9nblggh5fv99
• JavaScriptServices https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices
• KnockoutJS http://knockoutjs.com/
• WebAssembly http://webassembly.org/
• DotNetAnywhere https://github.com/chrisdunelm/DotNetAnywhere
• Emscripten https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
• asm.js http://asmjs.org/
• Blazor https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor
• Progressive Web Apps https://pwa.rocks/
• NDC Oslo Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLAE6HMr10