Reading List
This is a feed of links I've run across and found interesting or noteworthy. The images, content and opinions in them are owned by their respective authors.

An Introduction to GraphQL: Subscriptions
telerik.com
GraphQL subscription aims to help you build real-time functionality into your apps, while still allowing only the data you need to be returned from live events.

Consuming GraphQL in C#
channel9.msdn.com
In this episode, Brandon show us how to consume a GraphQL endpoint from a C# client, specifically an iOS + Android written in C# using Xamarin. Learn more: https://codetraveler.io/DotNetGraphQL [0

Creating a GraphQL Backend
channel9.msdn.com
Continuing with our coverage on GraphQL, Brandon gets into the code of the graphql-dotnet SDK and shows us how to create a GraphQL endpoint. Learn more: https://codetraveler.io/DotNetGraphQL [00:51] -

ASP.NET Core Series: PWA's with Blazor
channel9.msdn.com
Progressive Web Applications (PWA) use modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Since Blazor WebAssembly is a standards-based client-side web app platform, developers have t

Distributed Data Patterns for Microservices
microservices.matrixlms.com
Learn key distributed data management patterns in a microservice architecture
GitHub - cajuncoding/GraphQL.RepoDB
github.com
A set of extensions for working with HotChocolate GraphQL and Database access with micro-orms such as RepoDb (or Dapper). This extension pack provides access to key elements such as Selections/Projections, Sort arguments, & Paging arguments in a significantly simplified facade so this logic can be leveraged in the Serivces/Repositories that encapsulate all data access (without dependency on IQueryable and execution outside of the devs control). - GitHub - cajuncoding/GraphQL.RepoDB: A set of extensions for working with HotChocolate GraphQL and Database access with micro-orms such as RepoDb (or Dapper). This extension pack provides access to key elements such as Selections/Projections, Sort arguments, & Paging arguments in a significantly simplified facade so this logic can be leveraged in the Serivces/Repositories that encapsulate all data access (without dependency on IQueryable and execution outside of the devs control).

Enum Alternatives in C#
ardalis.com
Some time ago I wrote about Moving Beyond Enums and published an article on ASPAlliance by the same title. Unfortunately the latter article was largely screenshot-based, and those images seem to have disappeared, so I thought I’d revisit the topic here.
GitHub - ardalis/SmartEnum: A base class for quickly and easily creating strongly typed enum replacements in C#.
github.com
A base class for quickly and easily creating strongly typed enum replacements in C#. - GitHub - ardalis/SmartEnum: A base class for quickly and easily creating strongly typed enum replacements in C#.

Persisting the Type Safe Enum Pattern with EF 6
ardalis.com
I’ve written about Enum Alternatives in C#, and a common problem developers encounter when they try to use such an approach is persistence.
Building a GraphQL API with ASP.NET Core 2 and Entity Framework Core
Mark Macneil - fullstackmark.com
In this post, we'll build a GraphQL API service using ASP.NET Core 2, Entity Framework Core and graphql-dotnet.