June 2020 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 25, 2020 (#3221)

Posted on June 25, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Version 10 of Angular Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
Delivering on a promise – the essential extension pack (Mads Kristensen)
New tools for Flutter developers, built in Flutter (Filip Hracek and Chris Sells)
Using the Blockly visual programming editor to call a .NET Core WebAPI (Scott Hanselman)
How to embed JavaScript components in C# built Uno WebAssembly Web Applications (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure.com operates on Azure part 1: Design principles and best practices and Part 2: Technology and architecture (Aaron Hogue)
Practical Guide To Testing React Applications With Jest (Adeneye David Abiodun)
RxJS: The Unexpected (Armen Vardanyan)
Deploying ASP.NET Core Web Applications to Docker (Bjoern Meyer)
ASP.NET Core MVC API: How to Perform a Partial Update using HTTP PATCH Verb (David Grace)
When to use viewProviders in Angular – Simplified (Dhananjay Kumar)
When To Use Node.js as a Back-End (Max Savonin)
YAML-defined CI/CD for ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Running a static site for free with Azure Blob Storage and Cloudflare (Tom Wright)
ECMAScript proposal: private static methods and accessors in classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
Durable Functions now supports Python (Azure Team)
The App Sandbox (Charlie Hess)
Contributing to Adobe’s Open Source World with the Adobe Experience Platform SDK for Project… (Conrad Wöltge)
Github OAuth with Go (Dakshraj Sharma)
A Glitchy Grid Layout Slideshow (Mary Lou)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Create a Google Chromecast app with Xamarin.Forms in under 10 minutes (Gerald Versluis)
Replicating Schedule UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
How code snippets in VS for Mac can help you create Xamarin Forms apps (Ricardo Prestes)
MAUI: a Multi-platform App UI for .NET (Arthur Casals)

Visual Studio & .NET

On simplifying null validation with C# 9 (Dave Brock)
Multi-Targeted NuGet Package Gotchas! (Derek Comartin)
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6.5 (8.6.5.23) – Release Notes (VS for Mac Team)
Developing Cloud Applications in .NET (Damir Arh)
.NET: Prepare your company for the future (Angel Benito)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Microservices Without Mocks, Part 4: Code Whispering (James Shore)
5 Super Useful Azure DevOps Extensions (Amin Lakhani)
20 Years of Microsoft UI Crimes (Matthew MacDonald)
Does A 4-Day Workweek Actually Increase Productivity? (Suzanne Zuppello)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova OSX 6.0.0 Released! (Niklas Merz)
Cordova iOS 6.1.0 Released! (Darryl Pogue)
New tools for finding, training, and using custom machine learning models on Android (Hoi Lam)
Package Manager updates in Unity 2020.1 (Daniel Tutino-Galletti)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Video – Simplifying Change Detection in Angular, ng-India Webinar recording and Video – Simplifying Dependency Injection and Services in Angular, ng-India Webinar recording (Dhananjay Kumar)
Bentley iTwin and iModel.js Integration with Azure Digital Twins | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubermatic, with Sebastian Scheele (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
The Changelog – Shipping work that matters (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
NSScreencast #444 – SwiftUI Native Progress Views (Ben Scheirman)
Meta Cast Episode 169 – Discover Your Superpower (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Why I’m Building a Static Site Generator (from Scratch) (Michael Szul)
The CSS Podcast 014: Pseudo Elements (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)

Community & Events

Welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows (Vanessa Gennarelli)

Database

How to Use SQL Server Coalesce to Work with NULL Values (Ray Barley)
How to Upgrade SQL Server Evaluation Edition to Developer Edition (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Disable Statistics Update on a Specific Table (Pinal Dave)
Wildcard indexes in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB (Tim Sander)
Monitoring SQL Server with PowerShell Core Object Setup (Alejandro Cobar)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to: integrate Power Virtual Agents with Teams using SSO and how to retrieve user information (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

PowerShell Basics: How to check if MFA is enabled in Azure and Office 365 (Anthony Bartolo)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20152 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 4, multi-qubit gates (Filip W.)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3022 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-06-25 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Angular with Typescript (updated to Angular 9) (Greg Lim) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – June 24, 2020 (#3220)

Posted on June 24, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Addressing Racial Injustice (Satya Nadella)
Introducing dotnet-monitor, an experimental tool (Sourabh Shirhatti)
Contribute To The Top 10 Impactful .NET OSS Projects 2020 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Entity Framework Core In-Depth Part 5 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web & Cloud Development

How to use useClass with Tree Shakable Services in Angular and A JavaScript function inside a Block Scope: Simplified (Dhananjay Kumar)
npm v7 Series – Why Keep `package-lock.json`? (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
Securing External Web API’s with API Keys in ASP.Net Boilerplate (Lee Richardson)
Leveraging Angular Prereleases to keep Ionic in Sync (Mike Hartington)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds .NET Core on Linux platform (Norm Johanson)
Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Sanjay Modi)
Using Angular’s Live Reload Web Server to Refresh Pages on a Phone (Rick Strahl)
Don’t use CSS Reset use CSS Set (Vladimir Carrer)
Electron becomes an OpenJS Foundation Impact Project (Keeley Hammond)
What’s new in SandDance 3 (Dan Marshall)
13 Most Common Google Cloud Reference Architectures (Priyanka Vergadia)
Getting Started With Kubernetes: Clusters and Nodes (Sophia Parafina)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Goodbye Xamarin.Forms, Hello MAUI! (Vicente Gerardo Guzmán Lucio)

Visual Studio & .NET

Customizing the Visual Studio Code Integrated Terminal (Daren May)
C# – Fastest way to find a number/integer in a string (Mark Pahulje)
10 Visual Studio Ninja Code Editor Productivity Tips (Patrick Smacchia)
Differences between String and string in C# (Vladimir Pecanac)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The 5 Rules Of Networking When You Work Remotely (Britt Joiner)
DTO – Data Transfer Objects (Herberto Graça)
Delegate Problems and Outcomes, Not Tasks (Johanna Rothman)
Zeplin API, Round 2 — Webhooks (Zeplin Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Merge Conflict 207.5: WWDC20 Recap (James Montemagno)
ASP.NET Core Series: High performance requests with gRPC | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Jeremy Likness)
NSScreencast #443 – SwiftUI Lazy Stacks in iOS 14 (Ben Scheirman)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 364 | Citizen Development With Mike Fitzmaurice (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Rework Podcast – Designing Hey (Basecamp)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #382: Low Code Goes Pro (Bob Rhubart)
Demystifying ARM Templates: Intro to ARM Templates | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
RunAs Radio – Data Governance in 2020 with Susan Hanley (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 171 (Jason Bock)
Real Talk JS Episode 89: Building Secure Electron Apps with Aristeidis Bampakos (John Papa)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C (Gavin Henry)

Community & Events

Interview with Vue.js Succinctly Author Ed Fretias (Tres Watkins)
Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community (Caitlin Neiman)
Becoming a Technical Fellow at Headspring, and New Beginnings (Jimmy Bogard)

Database

SQL SERVER – Reduce Deadlock for Important Transactions With Minimum Code Change (Pinal Dave)
Azure Cosmos DB for AI Engineers (Rodrigo Souza)

SharePoint & MS Teams

.NET Standard version of SharePoint Online CSOM APIs (SharePoint Team)

PowerShell

Linux worker for PowerShell templates (Shawn Sesna)

Miscellaneous

New Windows Containers GitHub repo – Roadmap and more! (Vinicius Apolinario)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3021 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-06-24 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

React and React Native: A complete hands-on guide to modern web and mobile development with React.js (3rd Ed.) (Adam Boduch & Roy Derks) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – June 23, 2020 (#3219)

Posted on June 23, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Uno WebAssembly Containerization (Ian Bebbington)
Elton Stoneman on the State of Containers – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 94 (Jeffrey Palermo)
3+1 ways to manage state in your Blazor application (Jon Hilton)
Introducing new features in Microsoft Teams to connect you with friends and family—now available in mobile preview (Liat Ben-Zur)
Promote consistency across your organization with workflow templates (Jennifer Schelkopf)

Web & Cloud Development

Deploy a .NET Container with AWS Fargate (Chase Aucoin)
Create a React Teleprompter using the Web SpeechRecognition API (Elijah Manor)
Creating a simple real-time chat with .NET Core, ReactJS and SignalR (Andre Lopes)
Getting started with ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
How to manually pass the value of ‘this’ object in a JavaScript function (Dhananjay Kumar)
How to Get the Screen, Window, and Web Page Sizes in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Simpler Google Pay integration for React and web developers (Google Pay Team)
An Introduction To SWR: React Hooks For Remote Data Fetching (Ibrahima Ndaw)
Unraveling the Azure Maya Mystery and building a world (Jen Looper)
A Guide To Migrating From ASP.NET MVC to Razor Pages (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
XML + JSON Output for Web APIs in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Split IP and port in JavaScript with regular expressions (Thomas Ardal)
ESLint v7.3.1 released (ESLint Team)
Managing app state with Redux and TypeScript – Part 2 (Carl Rippon)
Using a Golang pattern to write better Typescript (Gabe Szczepanek)
Partial Classes, RenderFragment and Lifecycle in Blazor WebAssembly (Marinko Spasojevic)
Bot Authentication using GitHub as the Identity Provider (Michael M.)
New Features in TypeScript 3.9 (Nwose Lotanna Victor)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Introduction To Dialogs In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
Building a notifications client with Xamarin and Azure and Notifications Client Step 0: Specification (Laurent Bugnion)

Visual Studio & .NET

Introducing C# 9: Improved pattern matching (Anthony Giretti)
C# 9: Type Inference for the New Keyword (Jonathan Allen)
It’s all in the Host Class – Part 2: Configuration (Christian Nagel)
Building End-to-End Diagnostics: User-Defined Context with Correlation Context (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What Unit Testing Tells You About Your Code (Joe Eames)
Complex Infrastructure as Code via Azure Devops YAML Pipeline (Allen Zhang)
Using Moq Callback to set values to drive tests (Adam Storr)
GitLab 13.1 released with Alert Management and Code Quality Enhancements (Farnoosh Seifoddini)
TeamCity 2020.1.1 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
The Product Canvas: A Top Down Approach To Product Envisioning (Shaun Jayaraj)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Analyze Stack Traces in Android Studio (Segun Famisa)
iOS 14 has a new home screen with widgets (Chaim Gartenberg)
Make the Pi Higher [Configuring a Raspberry Pi for Node.js and web development] (David Anson)
Flutter Intl IDE plugin exceeded 70K installations on VS Code and Android Studio! (Localizely Team)
Lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster (Shawn Sesna)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Some Neat CSS Functions That You Should Know About (Wes Bos)
Data Driven Podcast: Bob Ward (Andy Leonard)
Revision Path – William Hill (Maurice Cherry)
Microsoft 365 SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 88 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 149 – Xamarin with Scott Ertz (John Callaway)
Yet Another Podcast – C# 9 Part 3 – Patterns (Jesse Liberty)
JSJ 437: Inside the Brave Browser with Jonathan Sampson (AJ O’Neal, Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Steve Edwards & Dan Shappir)
Asp.Net Monsters #170: Noda Time and Entity Framework Core (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
.NET Bytes Episode 20: News from June 4th, 2020 through June 18th, 2020 (Calvin A. Allen & Matthew D. Groves)
The Build Better Software Podcast – Product Discovery and Customer Research with Michele Hansen (George Stocker)
Serverless Chats Episode #54: Coordinating Cloud Engineers and Serverless Developers with Joe Duffy (Jeremy Daly)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Lists with Lincoln DeMaris (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Microsoft Mechanics – Power Apps | New Capabilities Building Zero-To-Low-Code Apps (Clay Wesener & Jeremy Chapman)
Social Sessions with Mike Gannotti – Jeff Willinger MVP (Mike Gannotti)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Chatting with Robin Ginn, executive director of the OpenJS Foundation (Stack Overflow Team)

Community & Events

DockerCon 2020: The Microsoft Sessions (Robert Duffner)
Becoming a Remote Worker – Week 14 (Adam Storr)
Why I’m Joining the Mozilla Board (Navrina Singh)
Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming (Tom Warren)

Database

SQL SERVER – Network Protocol and IP Address (Pinal Dave)
Azure Cosmos DB transport layer security (TLS) 1.2 enforcement starts on July 29, 2020 (Azure Team)
Azure SQL Cross Database Query (Joe Gavin)
Integration Services Extension for VS 2019 v3.8 Released (Andy Leonard)
Breaking changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0 (and potential mitigations) (Erik EJ)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Configuring Microsoft Teams for Live Virtual Training (Martin Hinshelwood)

PowerShell

Native Commands in PowerShell – A New Approach (Jim Truher)

Miscellaneous

Apple announces macOS Big Sur with a brand-new design (Monica Chin)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3020 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-06-23 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Flutter: Native, Cross-Platform Apps the Easy Way (Carmine Zaccagnino) – Referral Link

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