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Dew Drop – March 26, 2020 (#3162)

Posted on March 26, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Version 9.1 of Angular Now Available — TypeScript 3.8, faster builds, and more (Stephen Fluin)
GitHub Desktop 2.4 introduces proxy support and issue creation (Billy Griffin)
When Production Debugging for .NET Meets Infrastructure as Code (Simon Timms)
Increase Binding Possibilities with RelativeSource (Javier Suárez)

Web & Cloud Development

Angular Bad Practices: Revisited (Armen Vardanyan)
Web Components & Stencil.js – Build Custom HTML Elements (Brad Frost)
Tracking down performance pitfalls in Vue.js (Daniel Madalitso Phiri)
Why for…of Loop in JavaScript is a Gem (Dmitri Pavlutin)
How Should Designers Learn To Code? Git, HTML/CSS, Engineering Principles (Part 2) (Paul Hanaoka)
What is Spring Boot? Autoconfigurations In-Depth (Marco Behler)
Speed Up Your Angular App | 14 Angular Optimization Tips (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
How to Animate Text with SVG and CSS (Robin Rendle)
Kubernetes 1.18: Fit & Finish (Kubernetes Release Team)
What Happens to Your App When an npm Module Retires? (B. Cameron Gain)
Working with Query Strings in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
Debugging Proxy Configuration Scripts in the new Edge (Eric Lawrence)
TypeScript Function Overloading (Joe Eames)
Increased Visibility of Invalid Whitespaces and Newlines In Your Postman API Requests (Kin Lane)
Organizing large schemas in GraphQL (Nigel Sampson)
A visual debugger for Jupyter (Project Jupyter)
Refactoring Pulumi Code with `aliases` (Ringo De Smet)
Using HttpCompletionOption to Improve HttpClient Performance in .NET (Steve Gordon)
npm Release: 6.14.4 (Ruy Adorno)
Awesome-Compose: Application samples for project development kickoff (Anca Iordache)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How to Use the MediaElement in Xamarin.Forms (Nigel Ferrissey)
Dependency Injection in WPF Application using Generic HostBuilder (The Code Buzz)
Improving UX when requesting runtime permissions (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

Adding Tuple Support to .NET Classes in C# (Jason Roberts)
Optimising C# for a serverless environment (Carmel Eve)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Six Tips for Working Remotely (Blair Heitmann)
Remote Development Productivity at Microsoft: ‘No Lunchtime Dip’ (David Ramel)
Remote Work Tiny Tips – Staying Healthy (Exercise) (Charles Flatt)
TeamCity 2020 Roadmap (Part 1 of 2) and Part 2 (Alexander Rassokhin)
A guide to effective retrospectives (Chris Compston)
The People Manager: A Guide for the First Time Manager – has been published! (Dean Hume)
TeamCity 2020.1 EAP2 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
The Benefits and Challenges of Managing Remote Teams (Michelle Labbe)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Swift 5.3 Release Process (Nicole Jacque)
Flutter: Simplify your PageRoutes (Shawn Blais)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 79: Creating a Workflow from Scratch in Power Automate (David Giard)
Herding Code 240: Phil Haack on Working from Home (Jon Galloway)
Episode 334 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sarti & Michael Lombardi (Jonathan Walz)
Software Engineering Daily – Remote Team Management with Ryan Chartrand (Jeff Meyerson)
Developing Dual-screen Experiences with Xamarin (Craig Dunn & Guy Merin)
All Things Xamarin.Forms Shell (Shane Neuville)
Developing Performant Xamarin Apps (Sweeky Satpathy)
2020-03-18 (VOD) Building a budget Url Shortener using Azure Serverless and Net (Frank Boucher)
Containerized PubSub with Azure Event Grid on IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
How to choose which Flutter Animation Widget is right for you? – Flutter in Focus (Emily Fortuna)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – Creating a Powerful Healthcare Experience – w Cynthia Sharpe, Experience Design Principal, ThinkWell Group (Allscripts Healthcare)
Stitching Together a Mobile Backend for Your App (Matt Soucoup)
Rework Podcast – Remote Work Q&A, Part 2 (Basecamp)
The CSS Podcast 003: Specificity (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
Remote Work | Loosely Coupled Show #003 | Remote Work & Software Design (James Hickey & Derek Comartin)
Live coding: Uno Platform: Lottie animations, state of macOS, and porting WinUI SplitButton (Martin Zikmund)
SchwammyStreams – Two weeks since the last stream causes some unexpected trouble. (Andy Schwam)

Community & Events

Six years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program (Brian Anglin)
Go, the Go Community, and the Pandemic (Carmen Andoh, Russ Cox & Steve Francia)
Reconnect Series: Ken Lin (MVP Award Team)
Meet the 2020 Imagine Cup Americas Regional Final Judges (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

SQL SERVER – Remote Monitoring While Working from Home (Pinal Dave)
Start playing with RavenDB 5.0, today (Oren Eini)
Standing up a local Sql Server development DB w/ Bullseye, Docker, and Roundhouse (Jeremy D. Miller)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Create new Visio diagrams, share them with colleagues, and collaborate directly in Microsoft Teams (Shilpa Goyal)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19592 (Brandon LeBlanc)
DevRel Tech Content Metrics (ContentLab IO)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2961 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-26 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications: Gain a solid understanding of TypeScript, Angular, Vue, React, and NestJS (Sebastien Dubois & Alexis Georges) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – March 25, 2020 (#3161)

Posted on March 25, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Live coding: Uno Platform MvvmCross, Fody, iOS Hot Restart & implementing WinUI SplitButton (Martin Zikmund)
Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms comes to Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
In the works: OpenCL™ and OpenGL® mapping layers to DirectX (Angela Jiang)
Xamarin All The Things (Amanda Silver, James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features (Mika Dumont)

Web & Cloud Development

React Production Performance Monitoring (Kent C. Dodds)
Enabling distributed tracing with the Azure SDK for Python (Adrian Hall)
Understanding Custom React Hooks by Using Them (Angad Singh)
Why You Should Use Blazor over JavaScript Frameworks to Build Your Single-Page Application (David Grace)
Asynchronous Javascript: Callbacks and Promises (dianakw8591)
It’s an OSS Nuget Release Party! (Jasper v1.0, Lamar, Alba, Oakton) (Jeremy D. Miller)
Create a Stream Countdown Timer for Twitch with JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
Logging in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Sass !default and themeable design systems (Brad Frost)
Headings & Accessibility (Dennis Deacon)
Animated Custom Cursor Effects (Mary Lou)
How To Migrate Users From One Identity System To Another (Michael Wallen)
Application Integration Using Queues and Messages (Mithun Mallick)
Evolutionary Change to Cloud Computing (Mark Eisenberg)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Train a Machine Learning Radial Basis Function Network Using C# (James McCaffrey)
High-performance C#: a test pattern for ref structs (Ian Griffiths)
Getting Started With .NET Localization (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
FbNetExternalEngine 4.0 released – .NET Core support and performance (Jiří Činčura)
Optimize database traffic with future results in NHibernate (Gunnar Peipman)
How to Use the Navigation or Shadow Property in Entity Framework Core (Jeetendra Gund)
.NET Core March 2020 Updates – 2.1.17 and 3.1.3 (Rahul Bhandari)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit Testing Infrastructure (Sophia Parafina)
Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 4 – Command-Line with Azure DevOps (Andy Leonard)
Remote Work Tiny Tips – Focusing and Breaking (Charles Flatt)
Bond At A Distance With The Remote Team Cooking Challenge (Alexia)
Software Development the JetBrains Way: Dogfooding and Other Key Principles (Anastasia Chumak)
Easier organization and increased scalability for repository administrators (Jarryd McCree)
Adobe Creative Cloud Integrations to Collaborate Better and Stay Productive When Working from Home (Minson Chen)
Every Public Engineering Career Ladder (Shawn ‘Swyx’ Wang)
GitHub Draft Pull Requests (Steve Smith)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Yak Shaving – Swift Edition (Miguel de Icaza)
Swift 5.2 Released! (Ted Kremenek)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – React Native with Harini Kannan and Paul Gusmorino (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
What tools should I be using to develop for Microsoft’s dual screen devices? | One Dev Question (Ross Heise & Miranda O’Neill)
Filling the content gap for .NET developers | On .NET (Scott Hanselman & Cecil Phillip)
MLOps feature dive: Create event driven machine learning workflows | AI Show and MLOps feature dive: Manage your assets, artifacts and code | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 76 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Xamarin Productivity to the Max (Maddy Leger)
Building Beautiful Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Steven Thewissen)
Spectacular Components for Xamarin Apps (James Montemagno)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.18, with Jorge Alarcon (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 352 | AC’s and CJ’s MS-600 results are in! Are they certified or certifiable? (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Rework Podcast – The Distance: Steeped In History (Basecamp)
Meta Cast Episode 162 – Gratitude (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
A Software Engineer’s Guide to DevOps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
MLOps feature dive: CI/CD with GitHub Actions | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Seth Juarez)
RunAs Radio – Teams as an Intranet with Stephanie Donahue (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Adaptive Cards community call-March 2020 (Matt Hidinger)
The SitePen Podcast Episode 55: AST, Uses, and Tooling (Bryan Forbes, Neil Roberts, Paul Shannon & Nick Nisi)

Community & Events

Inspire 2020: Connect with Microsoft Partners (update: Microsoft not be holding Microsoft Inspire 2020 as an in-person event) (MS Partner Team)
From Laura Baldwin – O’Reilly Media (O’Reilly will cancel all future O’Reilly in-person conferences and close down this portion of their business) (Laura Baldwin)
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors (Devon Zuegel)
Women in Tech: Names You Should Know (Grace Stewart)
Promoting Virtual Conferences to Developers (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Database

SQL SERVER – Msg 3254 – The Volume on Device Path\File is Empty. RESTORE DATABASE is Terminating Abnormally (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database managed instance vs. SQL Server (SQL Server Team)
What’s in a Database Table Name? (Dave Rupert)
Copying Data From One Table To Another Using An INNER JOIN UPDATE Query In MySQL 5.6.37 (Ben Nadel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

SharePoint Mobile App will now allow admins to customize their tenant theme with branding (Brad McCabe)
Host your virtual class with Microsoft Teams (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft will pause optional Windows 10 cumulative updates for testing purposes starting in May (Mary Jo Foley)
Kubuntu Focus Laptop – The ultimate just-works power laptop (Kubuntu Focus)
How I Setup a Windows Dev Environment (Aaron Powell)
Venture into the digital worlds of Minecraft Marketplace’s free educational content (Athima Chansanchai)
Welcoming the USA Government to Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2960 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-25 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2560 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 251 – 20th Mar 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)

The Geek Shelf

The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – March 24, 2020 (#3160)

Posted on March 24, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available (Dominic Nahous)
Building Modern & Performant Desktop Apps—Is WinUI 3.0 the Way to Go? (Rossitza Fakalieva)
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
JetBrains Space (EAP) – The Integrated Team Environment (JetBrains)
Windows Terminal 1.0 is coming – Update now and set up your split pane hotkeys! (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Handle Navigation in React Native with react-navigation 5 (Said)
Suppressing characters in a React input (Carl Rippon)
How to Start Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code (Ondrej Polesny)
Ultimate Node.js Production Checklist (Mehul Mohan)
CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard (Bruno Couriol)
Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Connections (Daniel Marbach)
Displaying enum as select list in ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
Running a low-cost, scalable app with Azure Cosmos DB free tier (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
ASP.NET Core Web API and Swagger GUI (R S Dodiya)
Easily adding Security Headers to your ASP.NET Core web app and getting an A grade (Scott Hanselman)
Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services (Steve Gordon)
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) with ASP.NET Core and AJAX (Thomas Ardal)
Replacing AJAX calls in Razor Pages with Razor Components and Blazor (Andrew Lock)
Webhooks: The Building Blocks of an Event-Driven Architecture (Jennifer Riggins)
Search as a conversation using LUIS (Mithun Prasad)
Web Applications in Python (Sadrach Pierre)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Host a custom UWP control in a C++ Win32 app (McLean Schofield)

Visual Studio & .NET

Variables? We Don’t Need No Stinking Variables – C# Discards (Jason Roberts)
Debugging Dapr applications with Visual Studio Code (Jakob Ehn)
C# Design Patterns – Facade (Code Maze)
Using Reflection to Create a Dynamic OnModelCreating in Entity Framework (David Grace)
NServiceBus and .NET Core Generic Host (Jimmy Bogard)
Open URLs in the error/warning description (Matt Lacey)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Security Patterns for Microservice Architectures (Matt Raible)
Testing in Agile: How to Get Started (Balazs Schaffhauser)
GitHub with Azure DevOps (Brian Blackman & Eldon Gormsen)
Managing a Team from Home (Jeff Handley)
Introducing job workflows – sequential flows, fan-in, fan-out and cancellable jobs (Appveyor Team)
What Is Test Driven Development? (Eric Boersma)
Abstractions Carry a Cost (George Stocker)
Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI (Jim Burger)
Tints, a new Components Menu and more — what’s new in Sketch? and Documenting the humane design movement (Sketch Team)
Install hub to make your Git command-line as fully featured as GitHub (Sudeshna Sur)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Don’t forget about Steam Link on Raspberry Pi (Alex Bate)
How to embed a Flutter application in a Website using DartPad (Jose Alba)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Purchasing Power Parity (Wes Bos)
InfoQ Podcast: Panel: Suddenly Distributed – Effective Agility in the Age of Coronavirus (David Horowitz, Mark Kilby, Lisette Sutherland, Judy Rees, Steve McCann, Charles Humble & Shane Hastie)
Smashing Podcast Episode 12 With Paul Boag: What Is Conversion Optimisation? (Drew McLellan)
Monsters Weekly 157 – C# 8 Default Implementations (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
Real Talk JS Episode 76: Readable JavaScript with Laurie Barth (John Papa)
Deploy your own video collaboration app in under 5 minutes (Brent Schooley)
No Dogma Podcast #140 – Maria Naggaga, Try .NET and .NET Interactive (Bryan Hogan)
Growing an Effective QA Practice | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 147 (Jason Bock)
What’s the future of the Surface Duo API’s | One Dev Question (Scott Fudally)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Shelter In Place (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 136 – Working Remotely (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Announcing the new lead for the Windows Insider Program (Panos Panay)
Women in STEM, Featuring Carly Eckert & Whende Carroll of KenSci (Sara Kuethe)
Google for Games Developer Summit March 2020 (Greg Hartrell)
Celebrating Women Who Have Broken Barriers (Casey McGuigan)
Ask a Developer: Erik Guzman Recommends Plain Language (ContentLab IO)
GitHub – Open collaboration on COVID-19 (Martin Woodward)

Database

How To Connect Remotely to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine (Vitor Montalvao)
What’s the best alternative to azure cosmos DB (Fulton Browne)
Using DbUp and Octopus workers for database deployment automation (Bob Walker)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Virtual Rounding using Microsoft Teams (Max Fritz, Manoj Shah, Tyler Durham, Sohil Sathyanathan, Tavis Hudson, Jim Erickson & Shelly Avery)

PowerShell

Learning PowerShell Core on Linux for the SQL Server DBA Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
PowerShell wrapper around the Calendarific API (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

Moving to Linux – Part 1: Background and first impressions and Part 2: My life in operating systems and Part 3: Installation and day-to-day use and Part 4: Conclusions (Arthur Vickers)
Don’t Just Say It, Show It (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2959 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-24 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #12) (Michael Eaton)
Build5Nines Weekly: March 23, 2020 (Chris Pietschmann)
Weekly Xamarin Newsletter, Issue 249 – 6th March 2020 (Luce Carter)
Front-end RSS Feeds (2020 Edition) (Louis Lazaris)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day (Siddhartha Rao) – Referral Link

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