ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 3
.NET 6 Preview 3 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.
Here’s what’s new in this preview release:
- Smaller SignalR, Blazor Server, and MessagePack scripts
- Enable Redis profiling sessions
- HTTP/3 endpoint TLS configuration
- Initial .NET Hot Reload support
- Razor compiler no longer produces a separate Views assembly
- Shadow-copying in IIS
- Vcpkg port for SignalR C++ client
- Reduced memory footprint for idle TLS connections
- Remove slabs from the
SlabMemoryPool
BlazorWebView
controls for WPF & Windows Forms
Get started
To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 Preview 3, install the .NET 6 SDK.
If you’re on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.10. If you’re on macOS, we recommend installing the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.10.
Upgrade an existing project
To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core app from .NET 6 Preview 2 to .NET 6 Preview 3:
- Update all Microsoft.AspNetCore.* package references to
6.0.0-preview.3.*
. - Update all Microsoft.Extensions.* package references to
6.0.0-preview.3.*
. - Update calls to
TryRedeemPersistedState
onComponentApplicationState
to callTryTakePersistedState
instead. - Update calls to
TryRedeemFromJson
onComponentApplicationState
to callTryTakeAsJson
instead.
See the full list of breaking changes in ASP.NET Core for .NET 6.
Smaller SignalR, Blazor Server, and MessagePack scripts
Thanks to a community contribution from Ben Adams the SignalR, MessagePack, and Blazor Server scripts are now significantly smaller, enabling smaller downloads, less JavaScript parsing and compiling by the browser, and faster start-up.
The download size reduction from this work is pretty phenomenal:
Library | Before | After | % 🠓 | .br |
---|---|---|---|---|
signalr.min.js | 130 KB | 39 KB | 70% | 10 KB |
blazor.server.js | 212 KB | 116 KB | 45% | 28 KB |
You also now only need the @microsoft/signalr-protocol-msgpack
package for MessagePack; no need to include msgpack5
. This means you only need an additional 29 KB
rather than the earlier 140 KB
to use MessagePack instead of JSON.
Here’s how this size reduction was achieved:
- Updated TypeScript and dependencies to latest versions.
- Switched from uglify-js to terser, which is webpack’s default and supports newer JavaScript language features (like
class
). - Marked the SignalR modules as
"sideEffects": false
so tree-shaking is more effective. - Dropped the
"es6-promise/dist/es6-promise.auto.js"
polyfill. - Changed TypeScript to output
es2019
rather thanes5
and dropped the “es2015.promise” and “es2015.iterable” polyfills. - Moved to
msgpack5
from@msgpack/msgpack
as it requires less polyfills and is TypeScript & module aware.
You can find more details on these changes in Ben’s pull request on GitHub.
Enable Redis profiling sessions
We accepted a community contribution from Gabriel Lucaci to enable Redis profiling session with Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.StackExchangeRedis in this preview. For more details on Redis profiling, see the official documentation. The API can be used as follows:
services.AddStackExchangeRedisCache(options =>
{
options.ProfilingSession = () => new ProfilingSession();
})
HTTP/3 endpoint TLS configuration
Work is beginning to ramp up on support for HTTP/3 in .NET 6. HTTP/3 brings a number of advantages over existing HTTP protocols, including faster connection setup, and improved performance on low-quality networks.
New in this preview is the ability to configure TLS certificates on individual HTTP/3 ports with UseHttps
. This brings Kestrel’s HTTP/3 endpoint configuration in-line with HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
.ConfigureKestrel((context, options) =>
{
options.EnableAltSvc = true;
options.Listen(IPAddress.Any, 5001, listenOptions =>
{
listenOptions.Protocols = HttpProtocols.Http3;
listenOptions.UseHttps(httpsOptions =>
{
httpsOptions.ServerCertificate = LoadCertificate();
});
});
})
Initial .NET Hot Reload support
Early support for .NET Hot Reload is now available for ASP.NET Core & Blazor projects using dotnet watch
. .NET Hot Reload applies code changes to your running app without restarting it and without losing app state.
To try out hot reload with an existing ASP.NET Core project based on .NET 6, add the "hotReloadProfile": "aspnetcore"
property to your launch profile in launchSettings.json. For Blazor WebAssembly projects, use the "blazorwasm"
hot reload profile.
Run the project using dotnet watch
. The output should indicate that hot reload is enabled:
watch : Hot reload enabled. For a list of supported edits, see https://aka.ms/dotnet/hot-reload. Press "Ctrl + R" to restart.
If at any point you want to force the app to rebuild and restart, you can do so by entering Ctrl+R at the console.
You can now start making edits to your code. As you save code changes, applicable changes are automatically hot reloaded into the running app almost instantaneously. Any app state in the running app is preserved.
You can hot reload changes to your CSS files too without needing to refresh the browser:
Some code changes aren’t supported with .NET Hot Reload. You can find a list of supported code edits in the docs. With Blazor WebAssembly only method body replacement is currently supported. We’re working to expand the set of supported edits in .NET 6. When dotnet watch
detects a change that cannot be applied using hot reload, it falls back to rebuilding and restarting the app.
This is just the beginning of hot reload support in .NET 6. Hot reload support for desktop and mobile apps will be available soon in an upcoming preview as well as integration of hot reload in Visual Studio.
Razor compiler no longer produces a separate Views assembly
The Razor compiler previously utilized a two-step compilation process that produced a separate Views assembly that contained the generated views and pages (.cshtml) defined in the application. The generated types were public and under the AspNetCore
namespace.
We’ve now updated the Razor compiler to build the views and pages types into the main project assembly. These types are now generated by default as internal sealed
in the AspNetCoreGeneratedDocument
namespace. This change improves build performance, enables single file deployment, and enables these types to participate in .NET Hot Reload.
For additional details about this change, see the related announcement issue on GitHub.
Shadow-copying in IIS
We’ve added a new feature in the ASP.NET Core Module for IIS to add support for shadow-copying your application assemblies. Currently .NET locks application binaries when running on Windows making it impossible to replace binaries when the application is still running. While our recommendation remains to use an app offline file, we recognize there are certain scenarios (for example FTP deployments) where it isn’t possible to do so.
In such scenarios, you can enable shadow copying by customizing the ASP.NET Core module handler settings. In most cases, ASP.NET Core application do not have a web.config checked into source control that you can modify (they are ordinarily generated by the SDK). You can add this sample web.config
to get started.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<!-- To customize the asp.net core module uncomment and edit the following section.
For more info see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=838655 -->
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<remove name="aspNetCore"/>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModulev2" resourceType="Unspecified"/>
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%" arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout">
<handlerSettings>
<handlerSetting name="experimentalEnableShadowCopy" value="true" />
<handlerSetting name="shadowCopyDirectory" value="../ShadowCopyDirectory/" />
<!-- Only enable handler logging if you encounter issues-->
<!--<handlerSetting name="debugFile" value=".\logs\aspnetcore-debug.log" />-->
<!--<handlerSetting name="debugLevel" value="FILE,TRACE" />-->
</handlerSettings>
</aspNetCore>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
You require a new version of ASP.NET Core module to try to this feature. On a self-hosted IIS server, this requires a new version of the hosting bundle. On Azure App Services, you will be required to install a new ASP.NET Core runtime site extension
Vcpkg port for SignalR C++ client
Vcpkg is a cross-platform command-line package manager for C and C++ libraries. We’ve recently added a port to vcpkg to add CMake native support (works with MSBuild projects as well) for the SignalR C++ client.
You can add the SignalR client to your CMake project with the following snippet (assuming you’ve already included the vcpkg toolchain file):
find_package(microsoft-signalr CONFIG REQUIRED)
link_libraries(microsoft-signalr::microsoft-signalr)
After this, the SignalR C++ client is ready to be #include’d and used in your project without any additional configuration. For a complete example of a C++ application that utilizes the SignalR C++ client, check out this repository.
Reduced memory footprint for idle TLS connections
For long running TLS connections where data is only occasionally sent back and forth, we’ve significantly reduced the memory footprint of ASP.NET Core apps in .NET 6. This should help improve the scalability of scenarios such as WebSocket servers. This was possible due to numerous improvements in System.IO.Pipelines
, SslStream
and Kestrel. Let’s look at some of the improvements that have contributed to this scenario:
Reduce the size of System.IO.Pipelines.Pipe
For every connection that we establish, we allocate two pipes in Kestrel: one from the transport layer to the application for the request and another from the application layer to the transport for the response. By shrinking the size of System.IO.Pipelines.Pipe
from 368 bytes to 264 bytes (~28.2%), we’re saving 208 bytes per connection (104 bytes per Pipe).
Pool SocketSender
SocketSender
objects (that subclass SocketAsyncEventArgs
) are around 350 bytes at runtime. Instead of allocating a new SocketSender
object per connection, we can pool them since sends are usually very fast and we can reduce the per connection overhead. Instead of paying 350 bytes per connection, we now only pay 350 bytes per IOQueue
(one per queue to avoid contention). In our WebSocket server with 5000 idle connections we went from allocating ~1.75 MB (350 bytes * 5000) to now allocating just ~2.8kb (350 bytes * 8) for SocketSender
objects.
Zero bytes reads with SslStream
Bufferless reads are a technique we already employ in ASP.NET Core to avoid renting memory from the memory pool if there’s no data available on the socket. Prior to this change, our WebSocket server with 5000 idle connections required ~200 MB without TLS compared to ~800 MB with TLS. Some of these allocations (4k per connection) were from Kestrel having to hold on to an ArrayPool buffer while waiting for the reads on SslStream to complete. Given that these connections were idle, none of reads completed and return their buffers to the ArrayPool forcing the ArrayPool to allocate more memory. The remaining allocations were in SslStream
itself: 4k buffer for TLS handshakes and 32k buffer for normal reads. In preview3, when the user performs a zero byte read on SslStream and it has no data available, SslStream
will internally perform a zero-byte read on the underlying wrapped stream. In the best case (idle connection), these changes result in a savings of 40 Kb per connection while still allowing the consumer (Kestrel) to be notified when data is available without holding on to any unused buffers.
Zero byte reads with PipeReader
Once SslStream
supported bufferless reads, we then added the option to perform zero byte reads to StreamPipeReader
, the internal type that adapts a Stream
into a PipeReader
. In Kestrel, we use a StreamPipeReader
to adapt the underlying SslStream
into a PipeReader
and it was necessary to expose these zero byte read semantics on the PipeReader
.
You can now create a PipeReader
that supports zero bytes reads over any underlying Stream
that supports zero byte read semantics (e.g,. SslStream
, NetworkStream
, etc) using the following API:
var reader = PipeReader.Create(stream, new StreamPipeReaderOptions(useZeroByteReads: true));
Remove slabs from the SlabMemoryPool
To reduce fragmentation of the heap, Kestrel employed a technique where it allocated slabs of memory of 128 KB as part of it’s memory pool. The slabs were then further divided into 4 KB blocks that were used by Kestrel internally. The slabs had to be larger than 85 KB to force allocation on the large object heap to try and prevent the GC from relocating this array. However, with the introduction of the new GC generation, Pinned Object Heap (POH), it no longer makes sense to allocate blocks on slab. In preview3, we now directly allocate blocks on the POH, reducing the complexity involved in managing our own memory pool. This change should make easier to perform future improvements such as making it easier to shrink the memory pool used by Kestrel.
BlazorWebView
controls for WPF & Windows Forms
For .NET 6 we are adding support for building cross-platform hybrid desktop apps using .NET MAUI and Blazor. Hybrid apps are native apps that leverage web technologies for their functionality. For example, a hybrid app might use an embedded web view control to render web UI. This means you can write your app UI using web technologies like HTML & CSS, while also leveraging native device capabilities. We will be introducing support for building hybrid apps with .NET MAUI and Blazor in an upcoming .NET 6 preview release.
In this release, we’ve introduced BlazorWebView
controls for WPF and Windows Forms apps that enable embedding Blazor functionality into existing Windows desktop apps based on .NET 6. Using Blazor and a hybrid approach you can start decoupling your UI investments from WPF & Windows Forms. This is a great way to modernize existing desktop apps in a way that can be brought forward onto .NET MAUI or used on the web. You can use Blazor to modernize your existing Windows Forms and WPF apps while leveraging your existing .NET investments.
To use the new BlazorWebView
controls, you first need to make sure that you have WebView2 installed.
To add Blazor functionality to an existing Windows Forms app:
- Update the Windows Forms app to target .NET 6.
- Update the SDK used in the app’s project file to
Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor
. - Add a package reference to Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebView.WindowsForms.
- Add the following wwwroot/index.html file to the project, replacing
{PROJECT NAME}
with the actual project name:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
<title>Blazor app</title>
<base href="/" />
<link href="{PROJECT NAME}.styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="app.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="app"></div>
<div id="blazor-error-ui">
An unhandled error has occurred.
<a href="" class="reload">Reload</a>
<a class="dismiss">🗙</a>
</div>
<script src="_framework/blazor.webview.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
- Add the following app.css file with some basic styles to the wwwroot folder:
html, body {
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.valid.modified:not([type=checkbox]) {
outline: 1px solid #26b050;
}
.invalid {
outline: 1px solid red;
}
.validation-message {
color: red;
}
#blazor-error-ui {
background: lightyellow;
bottom: 0;
box-shadow: 0 -1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
display: none;
left: 0;
padding: 0.6rem 1.25rem 0.7rem 1.25rem;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
z-index: 1000;
}
#blazor-error-ui .dismiss {
cursor: pointer;
position: absolute;
right: 0.75rem;
top: 0.5rem;
}
- For all files in the wwwroot folder, set the Copy to Output Directory property to Copy if newer.
- Add a root Blazor component, Counter.razor, to the project:
@using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web
<h1>Counter</h1>
<p>The current count is: @currentCount</p>
<button @onclick="IncrementCount">Count</button>
@code {
int currentCount = 0;
void IncrementCount()
{
currentCount++;
}
}
- Add a
BlazorWebView
control to the desired form to render the root Blazor component:
var serviceCollection = new ServiceCollection();
serviceCollection.AddBlazorWebView();
var blazor = new BlazorWebView()
{
Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
HostPage = "wwwroot/index.html",
Services = serviceCollection.BuildServiceProvider(),
};
blazor.RootComponents.Add<Counter>("#app");
Controls.Add(blazor);
- Run the app to see your
BlazorWebView
in action:
To add Blazor functionality to an existing WPF app, follow the same steps listed above for Windows Forms apps, except:
- Substitute a package reference for Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebView.Wpf
- Add the
BlazorWebView
control in XAML:
<Window x:Class="WpfApp1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApp1"
xmlns:blazor="clr-namespace:Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebView.Wpf;assembly=Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebView.Wpf"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800">
<Grid>
<blazor:BlazorWebView HostPage="wwwroot/index.html" Services="{StaticResource services}">
<blazor:BlazorWebView.RootComponents>
<blazor:RootComponent Selector="#app" ComponentType="{x:Type local:Counter}" />
</blazor:BlazorWebView.RootComponents>
</blazor:BlazorWebView>
</Grid>
</Window>
- Set up the service provider as a static resource in the XAML code-behind file (such as
MainWindow.xaml.cs
):
var serviceCollection = new ServiceCollection();
serviceCollection.AddBlazorWebView();
Resources.Add("services", serviceCollection.BuildServiceProvider());
- To workaround an issue with the WPF runtime build not finding Razor component types, add an empty partial class for the component in Counter.razor.cs:
public partial class Counter { }
- Build and run your Blazor based WPF app:
Give feedback
We hope you enjoy this preview release of ASP.NET Core in .NET 6. We’re eager to hear about your experiences with this release. Let us know what you think by filing issues on GitHub.
Thanks for trying out ASP.NET Core!
75 comments
Will shadow copying for ASP.NET Core + IIS in ANCM still be experimental when .NET 6 releases? Will the extension still need to be explicitly added to Azure App Services?
These dev/deployment quality of life features are nice to see.
Ideally, Shadow Copying will not be experimental when .NET 6 releases. However, we want to make sure we are delivering the right solution that customers want for Shadow Copying. ANCM is also a separate module from the rest of .NET, which makes it difficult to iterate of features like shadow copying. Hence, we started with the “experimental” variable name for this release. Based on customer feedback and our overall comfort level (reliability, feature completeness, etc.), we will then remove the experimental naming.
Once .NET 6 release, you will not need to explicit add the site extension to Azure App Services. We will ship a new version of ANCM on Azure App Services instead.
Hooray for BlazorWebView!!
Hi @Daniel
Kudos to all involved with this release.
Quick question: In the “Get Started” section – you say “Install .NET 6 SDK” plus you say on windows it’s recommended to be on the latest preview of VS2019. What’s confusing is – Should I just install VS2019 latest preview and will that give me .NET 6 preview or install .NET 6 preview 3 + install the VS2019 16.10 Preview 1 (which is the latest) …
If somebody reads this for the first time it can be a little confusing to get started with .NET 6 preview 3.
Sorry if this has been addressed somewhere else. i was reading this and it startled me for a moment. I have VS2019 16.10 Preview 1 – and i though i already have .NET 6. So checked dotnet –info. then i realized i need to manually install .NET 6 Preview 3.
thoughts ?
Hi Lohith. You currently have to install the .NET 6 SDK separately from Visual Studio. We haven’t inserted .NET 6 into any Visual Studio previews yet. It will be a few months yet before that happens.
I thought so too. It may be good to make that clear in the getting started section. Thanks.
Hot Reload is neither working in ASP.NET Core MVC/Razor Pages nor in Blazor Wasm with Visual Studio 2019 Preview (16.10.0 Preview 1.0).
Here is my Blazor Wasm
launchSettings.josn
:You need to have installed VS2019 16.10 Preview 1 + .NET 6 SDK Preview 3 … have you done both ?
Hi Tanvir. Your launchSettings.json file looks right. I assume you’ve also installed .NET 6 Preview 3. You can check that by running
dotnet --version
from a command-prompt. It should show 6.0.100-preview.3.21202.5. You also need to run the app usingdotnet watch
for .NET Hot Reload to work currently. We haven’t integrated .NET Hot Reload into the latest VS yet, but that’s coming soon! The output ofdotnet watch
should say that hot reload is enabled if everything is working properly. If you’re still having issues, go ahead and create a GitHub issue with details about your environment and we’ll take a look.He Daniel , if i have a WASM project backed by an asp.net core Web Api (In the same solution ) should i add “hotReloadProfile”: “blazorwasm” to it too ? and what about class library ?
Hi Yasser. Great question! Right now you have to pick a hot reload profile and go with it (blazorwasm or aspnetcore). We don’t have a great solution yet for doing full stack hot reload. That’s something we expect to address in a future preview. For class libraries though, hot reload should work for whatever process depends on that library. It it doesn’t work it’s a bug.
Hello,
Thanks for this post.
Could you add that TryRedeemPersistedState method (described in the previous post) no longer works for ApplicationState and can now be replaced by the TryTakeAsJson method please?
Have a good day.
Hi Max. Thanks for pointing this out! I’ve updated the upgrade steps accordingly.
Awesome Dan!
Thanks! The Hot reload will be super powerful.
I have a problem with the hot reload.
I have a Blazor WASM PWA (ASP.NET Core hosted) and changes in the actual .Client project doesn’t get updated, even though the console is saying:
… Client\Pages\Counter.razor.
watch : Hot reload of changes succeeded.
But changes are updated if a change is comming from my Component project (Razor Class Library), ViewModel project (Class Library).
Any ideas?
I’ve updated all packages to 6.0.0-preview.3.21201.13
dotnet –version
6.0.100-preview.3.21202.5
Thanks!
Hi Erik. It’s possible that a hot reload was attempted, but failed. Do you see any errors in the console output? Or is it possible the hot reload succeeded but the updated code wasn’t executed yet? Remember, .NET Hot Reload updates the code of the running app without restarting it. If you update initialization logic, the code will get updated but not necessarily rerun unless you do something to cause reinitialization.
Thanks for your reply!
Yes, didn’t see it at first. After a hot reload I get this error: (sorry for long text…)
Okey I think I found what’s causing the error.
If I create a new Blazor WASM project (Core hosted) and add hot reload to launchsettings.json everything works fine (both .Client proj and a simple RCL proj change works).
But if I install MatBlazor (https://www.matblazor.com/) and import it in my _Imports.razor the hot reload stops working and throws the above error. (Important to restart using CTRL + R after importing the MatBlazor library in _Imports.razor to trigger the error)
Is that expected?
Not expected. Please open a GitHub issue with these details and we’ll investigate: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues. Thank you for helping us identify this issue!
Created Issue:
https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/31668
Erik that normal .razor pages are still not supported ,, from what Daniel wrote :
With Blazor WebAssembly only method body replacement is currently supported. We’re working to expand the set of supported edits in .NET 6. When dotnet watch detects a change that cannot be applied using hot reload, it falls back to rebuilding and restarting the app.
Hmm okey, but if I create a new Blazor WASM (PWA) solution, the hot reload is working for a simple HTML change in Counter.Razor… So in my “real” application, I must have something that breaks the hot reload functionality.
I’ve added the problem causing the error in my answer to Daniel.
Hi Yasser. Changes in .razor files are supported, but in a limited way. The contents of .razor files get compiled in a generated C# class. All of the markup rendering logic is captured in a render method on that class, which can then be updated using hot reload. Other changes though, like adding members are not yet supported with the WebAssembly based runtime like they are with CoreCLR.
Awesome work! The hot-reload will speed up my development significantly!!!!!
With BlazorWebView components does not seem to be able to call methods or receive state change?
Is this a bug?
One bit of Blazor magic that you might be missing is you need to have the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web namespace in scope for the web specific constructs to take effect, like
@onclick
. Typically this is done in your _Imports.razor file which then gets imported to all your other .razor files. Does adding an@using
for this namespace resolve your issue?Hey, yes just discovered that and was about to post it but you got to it first.
The BlazorWebView will greatly simplify our project and spare us a lot of work that we would have to do for IPC if we had our app running on WebAssembly and simple WebView.
Can only say big thank you for the team work!
Also is there any chance we would see BlazorWebView on .NET 5?
Hi Oleg. Unfortunately no, BlazorWebView relies on changes that are only available with .NET 6. Also please note that .NET 6 is the next Long Term Support (LTS) release for .NET, while .NET 5 is a Current release. We strongly recommend updating from .NET 5 to .NET 6 once it is available. For more details on the .NET support policy, please see https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy.
Thanks! We all looking forward to .NET 6!
I just try hot reload and it’s really fast. Great job! I can’t wait to .net 6 release. You are the best team in the entire world 😉
Great work guys. I created a new WPF application to test Blazor desktop, only step failing is adding Razor component. i have latest Visual studio and SDK.
Error is: no template could be found with the identity ‘microsoft.aspnetcore.components.razorcomponent’.
Any regression here?
I created working example here: https://github.com/jorgearteiro/BlazorDesktopWPF
Looks like you accidentally put Counter.razor under the wwwroot folder. Here’s a PR that fixes things up so that they now work: https://github.com/jorgearteiro/BlazorDesktopWPF/pull/1.