Microsoft .NET Blazor

[ions]

I have been migrating my MS Access applications to Microsoft's latest .NET technology called Blazor. In combination with the MudBlazor open source library I have been able to create excellent results.

I find developing in Visual Studio / .NET / Blazor / MudBlazor very rapid and this is the solution I have been waiting for many years being a MS Access developer.

It took me about 6 months to really get comfortable and proficient with this tech but now I would say it's almost as rapid as MS Access.

All the tooling is free.

Hope this helps someone.

 

[arnelgp]

have you used any database with it? data gathering or querying?

 

[GPGeorge]

I have been migrating my MS Access applications to Microsoft's latest .NET technology called Blazor. In combination with the MudBlazor open source library I have been able to create excellent results.

I find developing in Visual Studio / .NET / Blazor / MudBlazor very rapid and this is the solution I have been waiting for many years being a MS Access developer.

It took me about 6 months to really get comfortable and proficient with this tech but now I would say it's almost as rapid as MS Access.

All the tooling is free.

Hope this helps someone.

Can you share some specifications on the production environment and user base you support this way? Any hurdles in deployment? Acceptance by users? On going licensing costs? Etc.?

 

[ions]

have you used any database with it? data gathering or querying?

Yes. I use it with SQL Server on Azure. I have migrated our reporting product to Microsoft Blazor and the results are fantastic. I have also built a small project that has CRUD also hosted on Azure with SQL Server.

 

[ions]

Can you share some specifications on the production environment and user base you support this way? Any hurdles in deployment? Acceptance by users? On going licensing costs? Etc.?

The only cost is hosting on Azure. Visual Studio and all the Libraries are free. For around $20 / month you can support a small Web App with CRUD and basic querying. I typically spend around $100 - $150 / month for better performance.

Deployment to Azure is simply clicking the deploy button in Visual Studio.

Users love the new UI all done with the free MudBlazor Library. You can use the same code base to make it work on the phone or tablet but this requires a little more fiddling.

Everything you see below is done in C# and MudBlazor. Hardly any need to know JavaScript but I do have a little JavaScript (less than 0.1% of the code base) all generated by AI. You do need to learn CSS with Blazor however. CSS knowledge is important to make things look fully professional.

 

[ions]

MudBlazor's free UI library is the key to all this. The community is open source and very friendly.

MudBlazor - Blazor Component Library

Blazor Component Library based on Material Design. MudBlazor is easy to use and extend, especially for .NET devs because it uses almost no Javascript.

mudblazor.com

Theme Creator - MudBlazor Theme Manager & Bootswatch Export

MudBlazor Theme Creator lets you customize Material Design themes, import Bootswatch themes, or create your own themes for the MudBlazor library.

themes.arctechonline.tech

 

[GPGeorge]

So the $100-$150 a month is for a single application? Or does that cover others in addition to this one--which is pretty impressive, btw.

I experimented with an Azure web application a few years back, but comparing costs to a non-Microsoft web hosting service, I found it comparatively unaffordable. However, for a business, perhaps the cost is not that crucial and the convenience is worthwhile.

 

[ions]

So the $100-$150 a month is for a single application? Or does that cover others in addition to this one--which is pretty impressive, btw.

I experimented with an Azure web application a few years back, but comparing costs to a non-Microsoft web hosting service, I found it comparatively unaffordable. However, for a business, perhaps the cost is not that crucial and the convenience is worthwhile.

The $100 is for a single application and includes the Web Server, SQL Server and the SSL Certificate. You control the costs in Azure by choosing the power of the Servers you would like. I buy the Domain Names on GoDaddy.

For simple CRUD apps I am paying ~$18.25 USD / month and this includes the SSL Certificate. If you would like I can send you the URL for the simple app George. Send me a private message here.

 

[GPGeorge]

The $100 is for a single application and includes the Web Server, SQL Server and the SSL Certificate. You control the costs in Azure by choosing the power of the Servers you would like. I buy the Domain Names on GoDaddy.

For simple CRUD apps I am paying ~$18.25 USD / month and this includes the SSL Certificate. If you would like I can send you the URL for the simple app George. Send me a private message here.

I don't have a lot of time on my hands at the moment, so I'll defer looking at the sample app. I'm mostly just trying to get a sense of the costs involved. Maybe in the next couple of weeks I'll find more time.

The thing, in my mind, is that you can spread the cost of the application over multiple users, rather than paying a per user/per app license, I think. Is that correct?

 

[ions]

I don't have a lot of time on my hands at the moment, so I'll defer looking at the sample app. I'm mostly just trying to get a sense of the costs involved. Maybe in the next couple of weeks I'll find more time.

The thing, in my mind, is that you can spread the cost of the application over multiple users, rather than paying a per user/per app license, I think. Is that correct?

George the cost is for the entire app... you can have as many users as you want. The more users and more complexity the more server power you need to buy. You are just paying for server power which you can adjust as needed. There is no licensing involved at all with Azure and the Blazor / MudBlazor tech stack.