Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock is the geek version of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors game. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock is created by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla.

The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock - Sample Application shows a multilanguage application built with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, deployed with GitHub Actions and running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The sample application also uses Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services (Custom Vision API). Languages used in this application include .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, and PHP. Source Code for RPSLS on GitHub

Play the game hosted on Azure: https://RockPaperScissorsLizardSpock.dev

The path to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly with some RPSLS fun sprinkled in

With the recent release of .NET 5 at .NET Conf 2020, users saw first-hand how to take advantage of the latest web technology using .NET. One extremely interesting announcement was the new release of Blazor WebAssembly. Blazor lets you build interactive web UI wuth C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor WebAssembly allows users to build a completely isolated application entirely in C# that can run in nearly every web environment, including environments that only support static sites (think only HTML, CSS and Javascript). Blazor WebAssembly does this by compiling all C# code needed to run your application (your code and .NET libraries) into native code that will execute on the browser, not a server somewhere. This is valuable in scenarios when your app needs to run offline, or completely decoupled from a server, and your app only needs a server if it requests data outside of the application (similar to how many Javascript-based applications work). Due to the fact that the application runs in the browser, render times of the UI are near instantaneous, allowing for a great end-user experience. To see these benefits for ourselves, we decided to port a heavily used application to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly and not only reap these benefits, but document the process one would take moving their existing .NET Core application using Blazor Server to .NET 5 using Blazor WebAssembly. Read more about the differences between Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly.