Adrian Hall

Adrian Hall

Microsoft Program Manager by day; Mobile Developer by night

Recent posts

Azure Active Directory Authentication for Blazor WASM (Part 3: Production)

September 03, 2022  12 minute read  

Recently, I’ve been working on integrating authentication with Azure Active Directory into my Blazor app. I’ve covered the server side and the client side, so what’s left? Well, firstly, I left “secrets” in my client app in the form of an appsettings.json file. They aren’t exactly secret values, but having specific values in there means I can’t have different values for different environments. Similarly, I can’t change those values over time - I have to re-build the app in order to change...

Azure Active Directory Authentication for Blazor WASM (Part 2: The Client)

September 02, 2022  7 minute read  

I’m in the middle of adding authentication to my Blazor WASM app. In the last article, I introduced the service side of things to consider when integrating Azure Active Directory authentication. It’s now time to complete the work by considering the Blazor WASM client. As there was last time, this is [well documented], but comes with some wrinkles when you consider bringing authentication into an app later.

Azure Active Directory Authentication for Blazor WASM (Part 1: The Server)

September 01, 2022  8 minute read  

Continuing my foray into Blazor WASM, I decided to tackle authentication. The Microsoft documentation has an excellent article on how to do this using the built-in tooling to create an AAD-enabled Blazor WASM application. However, I’m beyond the tooling at this point. My Blazor app is created. I need to augment the solution with the right code to enable authentication. I also want to make sure that I am not leaking secrets and the same code will work from development, through staging, to...

Building Stylesheets for Blazor with SASS

August 26, 2022  8 minute read  

As I mentioned in my last article, I’m building a cloud-based MUD using all the modern techniques that I have available to me. One of the things I decided was that I was going to use an ASP.NET Core application hosting a single-page web application written in Blazor and I’m going to be running that inside a Docker image so I can deploy it onto Azure Container Apps. Scaffolding the app out is easy:

Building a serverless MUD infrastructure in Azure

August 25, 2022  12 minute read  

If you went to college back in the 1980’s or 90’s and studied computer science, then it is likely you bumped into the MUD (multi-user dungeon) craze. Back then, computer science was different. The primary languages were the languages of the day - Pascal and C were big. We had access to UNIX systems and would write text-based multi-user games that users would telnet into to get access. We didn’t have the web back then. I learned a lot from writing a MUD - from parser design to network comm...