Keeping up to date is important for software developers - but it doesn't need to be boring. In this session, Rainer Stropek will demonstrate interesting features from the latest releases of .NET and C# by building a small Skia-based game. You will learn about news related to JSON deserialization, pattern matching, records, file-scoped types, natural types, and many other new language features. This session will be code-only, with no slides. Rainer assumes that you have already good C# and .NET skills and that you would like to learn about what has recently changed in the platform.

Microfrontends have become a useful tool to break up the UI into smaller chunks that can be developed and deployed by independent teams.

Right now Blazor applications are still developed mostly in a monolithic culture. While libraries and components may be developed independently, their deployment is still centralized. In the long run this becomes a bottleneck.

In this talk microfrontends expert Florian Rappl introduces an established architecture for a creating modular frontend applications. He will show how this architecture can be implemented together with Blazor to create dynamic user experiences.

Do you want to learn to make accessible websites for all people in de world including the 1B people with disabilities on the planet with Blazor? Than this talk is definitely something to look forward to.
In this talk I learn you how to make PWA’s and website frontends with Microsoft’s band new technology called Blazor. I learn you how to make websites that are WCAG valid for all the known disability groups. Next to Blazor I am going to get you started on the semantic HTML and ARIA basics.
I am going to cover the importance of ALT text for images, the use of color, accessible websites for screen readers but also about websites being clear and consistent with language to avoid anxiety and concentration difficulties.
Me, myself started with mobile apps to create solutions for people with disabilities but since the rise of Blazor I join the web!

In 1971, 3 students thought they could liven up a history lecture by creating a computer game for the students to play, and after several days of work in HP Time Share BASIC, they came up with what turned out to be a significant milestone in the history of computer games - Oregon Trail.

My interest though, isn't just in historical computer games, it's also .NET and Functional Programming. I want to use this as a worked example of one of my passions - Functional Programming in C#! The challenge I've set myself is to redevelop Oregon Trail into C# using the following restrictions:

* Near 100% unit test coverage
* No variables can change state once set
* No statements (for, foreach, if, where, etc.) unless there literally is no way of avoiding them

I'll also be demonstrating a few of the tricks Functional Programming can offer, like Higher-order functions, functional flows with simple Monads and Tail Recursion. There should also be a bit of retro computing fun, while we're at it.