May 2020 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 20, 2020 (#3201)

Posted on May 20, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Too much big news from MS Build yesterday. There’s an expanded Top Links section today, but be sure to check out the rest of the sections below. There’s Build goodness throughout today’s edition of the Dew. I think Newsblur also dropped a few articles I tagged last night. Apologies if I missed your post!

Top Links

Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our Journey to one .NET and Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (Scott Hunter)
Windows Terminal 1.0 (Kayla Cinnamon)
Announcing Uno Platform 3.0 – Support for WinUI 3.0 Preview 1 (Uno Platform Team)
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available (Daniel Roth)
Code, collaborate, and ship your apps from anywhere (Amanda Silver)
Developing for all 1 billion Windows 10 devices and beyond (Kevin Gallo)
Introducing WinUI 3 Preview 1 (Ryan Demopoulos)
Windows Package Manager Preview (Demitrius Nelon)
Developer Velocity: Empowering developers to fuel business performance (Scott Guthrie)

Web & Cloud Development

Getting Started with Azure Static Web Apps (Dan Wahlin)
Create Real-time Applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR – Using Rider! (Rachel Appel)
Unlock near real-time, no-ETL analytics at scale with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB (Ramnandan Krishnamurthy)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 4 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
Path to Resources (JavaScript, Images etc.) Not Found with Vue.js Build (David Yardy)
Announcing accelerated training with ONNX Runtime—train models up to 45% faster (Manash Goswami)
Hosting Blazor WebAssembly in Azure Static Web Apps (Preview) (Tim Heuer)
Electron 9.0.0 (Sofia Nguy & Keeley Hammond)
Static Web Apps single page hosting option available in App Service now in preview (Azure Team)
OData Connected Service 0.10.0 Release (Clement Habinshuti)
Autoscale + serverless: new offers to fit any workload (Deborah Chen)
Automatic Testing for GraphQL APIs (Fikayo Adepoju)
Static Web Apps – First Look (John Papa)
Everything new from Microsoft Edge at Build 2020 (Kyle Pflug)
Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 4 (Marja Hölttä)
Streaming for Auditing is now in Public Preview (Rogan Ferguson)
Should You Still Learn Vue 2 Or Just Wait For The Release Of Vue 3? (Tapha Ngum)
Node v14.3.0 (Current) (Shelley Vohr)

XAML, WinUI & MAUI

Goodbye Xamarin, aloha Maui! (Marco Kuiper)
Ionic vs Xamarin (Matt Netkow)
Introducing Telerik UI for WinUI Preview (Kalin Todorov)
Microsoft Build 2020: Uno Platform + WinUI = Future of Cross Platform Apps (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

Find The Next Number In A Sequence With C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Live Share, now with chat and audio support! (Filisha Shah)
Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces (Anthony Cangialosi)
ML.NET Model Builder is now a part of Visual Studio (Bri Achtman)
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available (Dominic Nahous)
Clearing downloaded Source Link cache for Visual Studio for Mac (Gerald Versluis)
Releasing Today! Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 & v16.7 Preview 1 (Jacqueline Widdis)
Convert Images to Searchable PDF with OCR in C# (Nick Villalobos)
C# 9 Simplified Console Apps (Steve Fenton)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 4 (Jeremy Likness)
Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core Released (Olia Gavrysh)
DirectX ❤ Linux (Steve Pronovost)
Using WSL to Launch Several Bash Command from an Application (Rick Strahl)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Branching Patterns: Future Branch (Martin Fowler)
Building End-to-End Diagnostics: Visualization with Exporters (Jimmy Bogard)
Prototyping at Slack (Kyle Stetz)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Announcing React Native for macOS and more (Kiki Saintonge)
Implementing Shared Element Transition in React native (Nitish Prasad)
Building a PresenceLight (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 360 | Microsoft Build 2020 Preview (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – A Glitch In The Matrix (Ben Popper, Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Jenn Schiffer)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #380: 25 Years of Java: Technology, Community, Family (Bob Rhubart)
Improving Productivity With Devops And Microsoft Teams | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady)
RunAs Radio – Cloud Adoption Framework with Evelyn Padrino (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Radical Candor S2, Ep.3: Unhappy Cats In a Pond: Challenging Directly During a Crisis (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
Talk Python to Me #265 – Why is Python slow? (Michael Kennedy)
The Journey to One .NET (Scott Hunter & Scott Hanselman)
Protecting Sensitive Data using Differential Privacy | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Modern Web UI with Blazor WebAssembly (Steve Sanderson & Daniel Roth)

Community & Events

Microsoft Build 2020: Empowering developers to deliver impact today and tomorrow (Frank X. Shaw)
Surface Book 3 at Microsoft Build (Frank Buchholz)
The Windows Subsystem for Linux BUILD 2020 Summary (Craig Loewen)
‘Learn TV’ daily online program to provide developers with education and skills (MS Learn Team)
Meet the 2020 Imagine Cup World Champion: Team Hollo from Hong Kong SAR! (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

MongoDB Fundamentals – CRUD: Reading Objects – Day 3 of 6 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s new in the Microsoft Teams Platform | Microsoft Build 2020 (Microsoft 365 Team)
From Microsoft Teams to Fluid Framework—here’s what’s new and coming soon to Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro)

PowerShell

Connecting PowerShell to Office 365 (Joanne Klein)
PowerShell Team May 2020 Update (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 3, Single qubit gates (Filip W.)
A Glance at PowerToys and WinGet (Steve Fenton)
Developer Programming Woes: What Should Brands Improve? (Yolanda Fintschenko)

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Dew Drop – May 19, 2020 (#3200)

Posted on May 19, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Tag Helper Authoring in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Welcoming Go to the Pulumi Family (Evan Boyle)
What is Microsoft Learn? (Microsoft Developer)
Project Firefly: Build Custom Cloud Native Adobe Apps (Colene Chow)
Introduction to Uno Platform course launches on Udemy (Uno Platform Team)
5 summer books and other things to do at home (Bill Gates)

Web & Cloud Development

Separating Layout HTML And CSS From Content HTML And CSS Is Good (Ben Nadel)
Master-detail forms with React Hook Form (Carl Rippon)
Handling Web API Exceptions with ProblemDetails middleware (Andrew Lock)
Hosting an ASP.NET Core App on Docker with HTTPS (Changhui Xu)
Azure App Configuration: Configuration of .NET Applications (Christian Nagel)
Automatic Token Management for ASP.NET Core and Worker Services 1.0 (Dominick Baier)
Hosting WordPress behind Azure Front Door (Gunnar Peipman)
Announcing end of support for .NET Standard 1.3 in AWS SDK for .NET (Norm Johanson)
How to Deploy a React + Python Flask Project on Heroku (Steffy Lo)
Implementing always signed in with ASP.NET Core and Azure (Thomas Ardal)
Drawing with FabricJS and TypeScript Part 7: Undo/Redo (Matthew Jones)
Read out loud – Text to speech with the Web Speech API. (Michael Scharnagl)
You want efficient application scaling? Go serverless! (Adam Konrád)
OWASP Top 10 – Sensitive Data Exposure (Code Maze)
A bit of GREASE keeps the web moving and Browser Basics: User Gestures (Eric Lawrence)
Read a file with promises in TypeScript on Node (Jessica Kerr)
Fiddler Everywhere is Getting a New Look (Rob Lauer)
Following the End-to-End User Journey: Project Firefly Guides and A Breakdown of Firefly’s Architecture: Project Firefly Guides (Sarah Xu)
Vue CLI Creating a Project–Issue with Hot Reload (David Yardy)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Time is Running Out on Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)

Visual Studio & .NET

Rider 2020.1.3 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.3 Bugfixes Are Here! (Alexander Kurakin)
Getting Microsoft Feature Management Working in a Console App (Adam Storr)
Microsoft Feature Flags: Implementing Custom Feature Filters (Microsoft.FeatureManagement) (Jason Roberts)
Simple logging with Entity Framework Core 5 and ‘LogTo’ (like Database.Log in EntityFramework 6) (Erik EJ)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Branching Patterns: Experimental Branch and A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers (Martin Fowler)
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2020 Q2 (Sidi Merzouk)
TeamCity 2020.1: Conditional Build Steps, Support for Kubernetes, Slack Notifier, Integration with Azure DevOps and Jira Software Cloud, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
Improve test error messages of your abstractions (Kent C. Dodds)
Migrate From Travis CI to GitHub Actions (Brian Demers)
5 Tips to Take Your DevOps Pipeline to the Next Level (Eddie Segal)
Code Smell: Duplicated Code (Joe Eames)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building a Puzzle Game in Flutter (Kenneth Reilly)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Smashing Podcast Episode 16 With Ben Frain: How Can I Optimize My Home Workspace? (Drew McLellan)
NVIDIA DeepStream on Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Azure IoT Developer Specialty Certification | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Pamela)
The Changelog – Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Asp.Net Monsters #165: WaitAndRetry with Polly (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
Intersection Types, Union Types, and Type Aliasing in TypeScript (Bill Ahern)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – M365 Developer Guide to Build 2020 (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Real Talk JS Episode 84: Nuxt- Vue- and GraphQL – Daniel Roe (John Papa)
DevTalk Podcast 37: Building an IoT-enabled prosthetic arm. With Clifford Agius (Kerry Lothrop)
New Features in Language Understanding | AI Show (Patty Nguyen)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 144 – Database Stuff with Brent Ozar (John Callaway)
Social Sessions with Mike Gannotti Episode 4 – Ian Lindsay (Mike Gannotti)

Community & Events

Becoming a Remote Worker – End of Week 9 (Adam Storr)
Ways To Experience Philly From Home This Week, May 18-25 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

Shrink SQL Server Transaction Log for all Databases (Eli Leiba)
MongoDB Fundamentals – CRUD: Creating Objects – Day 2 of 6 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 3 (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

To get a better programming job, explain your problem-solving skills (Itamar Turner-Trauring)
Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo: Specs emerge, suggesting it’ll cost less than Galaxy Fold (Liam Tung)
Blogging and writing for the tech professional (Kathi Kellenberger)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2996 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-05-19 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #20) (Michael Eaton)
Double Shot #2599 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale (Boris Cherny) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – May 18, 2020 (#3199)

Posted on May 18, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing Uno Platform 2.4 – macOS support and Windows Calculator on macOS (Uno Platform Team)
Exploring Graph Native Support for OData (Hassan Habib)
TWC9: #MSBuild Preview, VS Codespaces, GitHub Satellite, TypeScript 3.9 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Microsoft Build 2020 – Guide to the Microsoft 365 Developer Platform (Microsoft 365 Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Blob versioning public preview now available (Azure Team)
Making HTTP/Web Requests in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 264 – Working with Azure Spring Cloud (Michael Crump)
Binding and Validating Enums in ASP.NET Core (Ben Foster)
10 Azure services that every .NET Developers, Consultant, and Architects should know and learn it well – Part II (Abhijit Jana)
gRPC & ASP.NET Core 3.1: Model validation (Anthony Giretti)
ASP.NET MVC: How to Use Ajax with JSON Parameters (Asma Khalid)
Unit Test AWS Lambda in Go (belikemike21)
Building a Spell Checking Web API in ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery (Burke Holland)
How to Tame Line Height in CSS (Caleb Williams)
45 Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices (Saad Mousliki)
Vue 3’s Global Mounting (Shawn Wildermuth)
Now in preview: Use the native Cassandra shell on Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API! (Theo van Kraay)
Creating Real Time App with ASP.NET Core SignalR and React in Typescript (Vikas Sharma)
Vue Login and Access Control the Easy Way (Holger Schmitz)
WebAssembly: Building a Secure-by-Default Ecosystem – Lin Clark at WebAssembly Summit (Bruno Couriol)
Using Blazor, Tensorflow and ML.NET to Identify Images (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
5 Differences Between Arrow and Regular Functions (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Writing WebAssembly in Rust and runing it in Deno! (Michael Lazarski)
Conversation Analysis in Chatbots (Michael Szul)
TypeScript in a Weekend: A Crash Course (Shane Lonergan)
Implementing Roles In Blazor WebAssembly (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms – DataGrid and Xamarin.Android – Gesture Detector (Logesh Palani)
Custom Image ProgressBar using SkiaSharp Part1 (Ahmed Fouad)

Visual Studio & .NET

Things every C# developer should know – #1: hash codes (Thomas Levesque)
C# 8.0 nullable references: transcending the type system with AllowNull (Ian Griffiths)
Social Opinion API: A low-code way to consume the Twitter Labs APIs using C# (Jamie Maguire)
Multi-path cancellation; a tale of two codependent async enumerators (Marc Gravell)
CSharp How to get Clipboard incoming DragDropEffects for FileDrop and set in back and Getting the Clipboard File DropEffect in CSharp (C#) (Mark Pahulje)
Tutorial: Detect and Extract MICR – Console C# (Nick Villalobos)
Microsoft Feature Flags: Controlling Features with Feature Filters (Microsoft.FeatureManagement) (Jason Roberts)
New Graph Explorer is now GA (Betti Ngugi)
Improving the Code Quality in .Net and .Net Core projects using NDepend (Bruno Capuano)

Design, Methodology & Testing

MSIX Ready Applications (Advanced Installer Team)
Tabs vs Spaces is Dumb. Convert Tabs INTO Spaces. (Charles Flatt)
Enabling Business Agility Through Your Cloud Transformation and DevOps (Esteban Garcia)
Remote work: How Finance, Legal, and IT made the shift to working from home (Laura Heisman)
Deepmind’s Gaming Streak: The Rise of AI Dominance (Exxact Team)
GitHub Secrets (Paul Michaels)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Migrating off App Center Push (Ela Malani)
Build a Fully Functioning Flutter Chat App with Firebase (Sanskar Tiwari)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S12:E6 – Why personal projects are so important (Ze Frank) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Randall Parrish (Maurice Cherry)
Responsive PortfolioX App | Flutter Mobile, Web, & Desktop | SpeedX Code (MTechViral)
Merge Conflict 202: Let’s Start a Business (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – 4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer (Jonathan Cutrell)
InfoQ Podcast: Tracy Miranda on the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Interoperability, and Open Standards (Tracy Miranda)
AzUrlShortener: An open source, budget-friendly URL shortener | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Bot Framework Composer: Bot Framework’s new collaborative Conversational AI development environment and Author rich content in QnA Maker knowledge base and enable role based sharing and Advanced Language Understanding & Language Generation with Bot Framework Composer and Edit and run Jupyter notebooks without leaving Azure Machine Learning studio (Seth Juarez)
Xamarin Podcast: Essentials 1.6, Forms 4.6 and Contact Tracing (Matt Soucoup)
.NET Core Podcast – Creating an IoT Hand with Clifford Aguis (Jamie Taylor)
PPP 291 | It’s a Stressful Time. Here’s What You Can Do for You and Your Team, with author Carole Osterweil (Andy Kaufman)
Ladybug Podcast – Building Developer Communities (Kelly Vaughn, Emma Bostian & Ali Spittel)
NSScreencast #439 – Sizing Things Equally in SwiftUI (Ben Scheirman)
Codepunk 058: Hackers (The Movie) (Bill Ahern)
No Dogma Podcast #142 – Aaron Stannard, Sustainable Open Source Software (Bryan Hogan)
The Amp Hour #493 – PITA Package (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 162 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft Build Week with Jeffrey Palermo – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 89 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Serverless Chats Episode #49: Things I Wish I Knew Before Migrating to the Cloud with Jared Short (Jeremy Daly)
Azure Podcast Episode 330 – Availability Sets and Zones (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

Global Azure Bootcamp Goes Virtual (MVP Award Team)
Add Build 2020 Schedule to Your Calendar (Nick Randolph)

Database

SQL SERVER – List Database Available for Current User – HAS_DBACCESS and MongoDB Fundamentals – Getting Started – Day 1 of 6 (Pinal Dave)
How to Drop a SQL Server Constraint When You Don’t Know its Name (Steve Fenton)
Reaching Azure SQL DB connection limits in many ways (Fonseca Sergio)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 1.1.3 (David-Engel)
Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Clone (Alex Yates)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Teams and SharePoint provisioning solutions – new Group.Create permission (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

Add a POSH ADB to your Windows Terminal (Chris Miller)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft: We were wrong about open source, but luckily you can change (Liam Tung)
Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally (Sergio De Simone)
GIPHY acquired by Facebook, reportedly for $400M (Kashaf Musvi)
IKEA Released Instructions for the Perfect Blanket Fort (Mia Nakaji Monnier)
U.S. to Charge Google with Antitrust Violations (Paul Thurrott)
paint.net 4.2.11 beta build 7441 (Rick Brewster)
Review of the Surface Book 3 for Developers (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2995 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-05-18 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2598 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 259 – 15th May 2020 (Luce Carter)
Reading Notes #426 (Frank Boucher)
Code Maze Weekly #25 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.05.15 (Steven Murawski)
The Overflow #21: The way forward (Ryan Donovan)
Reading List 258 (Bruce Lawson)
C# Digest Issue #311 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #20, 2020 – Microsoft Build 2020 (May 19-20) (Sergey Tihon)
Friday Five: Teams, gRPC, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, and more! (MVP Award Team)
GameDev News – May 15, 2020 (Brian Peek)
What I’m Reading (Week of 5/11/20) (Dave Brock)

The Geek Shelf

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Matt Frisbie) – Referral Link

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