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Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208728
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Hello Blazor FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Blazor App 4. Section 2:Building an Application with Blazor
5. Chapter 3: Introducing Entity Framework Core 6. Chapter 4: Understanding Basic Blazor Components 7. Chapter 5: Creating Advanced Blazor Components 8. Chapter 6: Building Forms with Validation 9. Chapter 7: Creating an API 10. Chapter 8: Authentication and Authorization 11. Chapter 9: Sharing Code and Resources 12. Chapter 10: JavaScript Interop 13. Chapter 11: Managing State 14. Section 3:Debug, Test, and Deploy
15. Chapter 12: Debugging 16. Chapter 13: Testing 17. Chapter 14: Deploy to Production 18. Chapter 15: Where to Go from Here 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding Actions and EventCallback

To communicate changes, we can use EventCallback, as shown in the Two-way binding section. EventCallback<T> differs a bit from what we might be used to in .NET. EventCallback<T> is a class that is specially made for Blazor to be able to have the event callback exposed as a parameter for the component.

In .NET in general, you can add multiple listeners to an event (multi-cast), but with EventCallback<T>, you will only be able to add one listener (single-cast).

It is worth mentioning that you can, of course, use events the way you are used to from .NET in Blazor as well. However, you probably want to use EventCallback<T> because there are many upsides to using EventCallback over traditional .NET events.

.NET events use classes and EventCallback uses structs. This means that in Blazor, we don't have to perform a null check before calling EventCallback because a struct cannot be null.

EventCallback is asynchronous...

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