October 2020 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – October 19, 2020 (#3299)

Posted on October 19, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Svelte for Sites, React for Apps (Shawn ‘swyx’ Wang)
What is infrastructure as code? (Jay Gordon)
Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces in C# – What You Know is Probably Wrong (Jeremy Clark)
A Highly Biased Review of C# Changes from Version 1.0 to 9.0 (Matthew MacDonald)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 284 – Creating a private video conferencing service with Jitsi on a Microsoft Azure VM and Tip 285 – A Lap around the new Azure VM Extension for VS Code (Michael Crump)
Blazor Simple Survey: Creating Dynamic Surveys (Michael Washington)
Implement a full text search using Azure Cognitive Search in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
Monitor Azure Solution With Azure Application Insights (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Building an Instagram Analytics Web App using .NET Core and Azure AI (Jamie Maguire)
Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate to Azure Functions (Justin Yoo)
Real-time applications with Blazor Server and Firestore (Niels Swimberghe)
Improving Azure Functions performance (Szymon Kulec)
Node v14.14.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
Implementing WebGL Powered Scroll Animations (Yuriy Artyukh)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 Init-Only Properties (David Hayden)
Introducing C# 9: Attributes on local functions (Anthony Giretti)
Dynamically invoking a generic method with Reflection in .NET C# (Brian Lagunas)
Monomorphic functors (Mark Seemann)
Use MSMQ For Logging Errors And Informational Items (Bonnie DeWitt)
Downloading from an SFTP site using SSH.Net (Paul Michaels)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 4, Iterative and Incremental but Not Agile Lifecycles (Johanna Rothman)
Azure DevOps vs GitHub: Which Toolstack Is Better for Software Teams? (Tyler Hakes)
Why does it take so long to build software? (Justin Etheredge)
5 Principles of Product Design (Mejan Rostamian)
Strategies to Catch Regression Bugs before Production: A Case Study (Patrick Smacchia)
How to intelligently manage your technical debt with behavioral code analysis (Sławomir Pawlak)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Developer tips and guides: Common policy violations and how you can avoid them (Andrew Ahn)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Gary Short on The Mathematics of Covid19 & the Hero You’ve Never Heard Of (David Giard)
Merge Conflict 224: iPhone 12 is here with magnets! (James Montemagno)
Bring compute, storage, and intelligence to the edge with Azure Stack Edge | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
AGL 178: Technical Debt 2.0 with Michael Fillios (John Rouda)
Talk Python to Me #286 – Python and ML at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (Michael Kennedy)
Welcome and Keynote: The Art of Computers (Scott Hanselman, Dona Sarkar & Seth Juarez)
Quickly coding with Codespaces (Christopher Harrison)
What is Machine Learning? | One Dev Question and What’s the difference between Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
Ladybug Podcast – Web Accessibility (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
The Changelog – Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Meta Cast Episode 177 – The Hard Stuff, Part 5 – Diversity (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 204 (Jason Bock)
Rod Paddock on the New Normal – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 111 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Serverless Chats Episode #71: Serverless Privacy & Compliance with Mark Nunnikhoven (PART 1) (Jeremy Daly)
Loosely Coupled Show – Events Everywhere! Different Type of Events in a Distributed System (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
Delivering Better Customer Experience with Omni Channel | #LessCodeMorePower (Patty Nguyen)
Faster and Lighter Model Inference with ONNX Runtime from Cloud to Client | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 430: Marco Faella on Seriously Good Software (Felienne)

Community & Events

GeekWire Summit Highlights: Bill Gates, the race to a COVID-19 vaccine, and the future of devices (Todd Bishop)
The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, October 19-25 (Visit Philly)
Got your tickets for PASS Virtual Summit 2020? (Eleanor Hughes)
3 Tips for women in tech (and allies) to challenge impostor syndrome (Sara Kassabian)
.NET 5 Launch and .NET Conf in November (Jason Gaylord)

Database

What is EDGE in SQL Server Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #298 and SQL SERVER – Adding Values Containing NULLs and 5 Questions Answered OUTPUT Clause – SQL in Sixty Seconds #135 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Upgrading the Storage Pool, Drives, and File System in a Synology to Btrfs (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineer 2 UI Interview at Microsoft (Dhilip Kumar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3093 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-10-19 (Dan Rigby)
The .NET Stacks #21: Azure Static Web Apps, .NET 6 feedback, and more! (Dave Brock)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 281 – 17th Oct 2020 (Luce Carter)
C# Digest Issue #333 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.10.16 (Steven Murawski)
F# Weekly #42, 2020 – .NET 5.0 RC2 (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #47 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Overflow #43: Simulated keyboards (Ryan Donovan)
Reading Notes #446 (Frank Boucher)
GameDev News – October 16, 2020 (Brian Peek)
Friday Five: Teams Client Deep Dive, Lazy Loading, More! (MVP Award Team)

The Geek Shelf

Vue.js 2 Web Development Projects: Learn Vue.js by building 6 web apps (Guillaume Chau) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 16, 2020 (#3298)

Posted on October 16, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Query & Interact with Apps in Android 11 with Package Visibility and Introducing .NET Live TV – Daily Developer Live Streams (James Montemagno)
Testable Flutter and Cloud Firestore (Craig Labenz)
Windows Terminal Tips and Tricks (Kayla Cinnamon)
Adapting your website to support new possibilities of dual-screen devices (Alexis Menard)
Windows Calculator on Linux via Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Debug JavaScript in Firefox in 7 easy steps (Stuart Ashworth)
JavaScript Data Structures – The Binary Tree (Ian Elliot)
Blazor – Reload the browser on disconnect and Blazor autofocus (Jimmy Engstrom)
Learn JavaScript and Node.js With Microsoft (Nikos Vaggalis)
Prism Template Pack Updates and a Blazor Dock Manager (Brian Lagunas)
Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell (Chris Pietschmann)
WebStorm 2020.3 EAP #4: More Flexible ESLint Configuration and Per-Project Plugins (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Managing Long-Running Tasks In A React App With Web Workers (Chidi Orji)
Supercharge Testing React Applications With Wallaby.js (Kelvin Omereshone)
Data Exploration & Experimentation with Notebooks in Azure (Ian Griffiths)
Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator (Matias Capeletto)
Using Azure Identity with Azure SQL, Graph, and Entity Framework (Mickaël Derriey)
Learning Vue from React (Thomas Moore)
Towards sockets and networking in WebAssembly and WASI (Radu Matei)
Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center (Teri Seals-Dormer)

Visual Studio & .NET

Implement Kotlin’s withIndex in C# and Immediate Window – Interact with your Code while Debugging in Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
C# 9.0 – Introduction To RecordTypes (Kirtesh Shah)
C# in Simple Terms – Classes and Members (Matthew Jones)
Classic Path.DirectorySeparatorChar gotchas when moving from .NET Core on Windows to Linux (Scott Hanselman)
Debugger Tip – Step into a specific method (Mark Downie)
How to Conditionally Add Attributes to Objects (David Walsh)
Integrate Salesforce Data Using ADO.NET (Manpreet Kaur)
C++20 STL Features: 1 Year of Development on GitHub (Stephan T. Lavavej)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Static Web App PR Workflow for Azure App Service Using Azure DevOps (Abel Wang)
Pachyderm and the power of GitHub Actions: MLOps meets DevOps (Kathryn Hsu)
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2020 Q4 (Sidi Merzouk)
Continuous Deployment from GitHub to Azure App Service (Code Maze)
GitPod Adds Native GitLab Integration (Kay Ewbank)
Applying a Zero-Bug Policy at Redgate (Ben Linders)
The Ultimate Guide – Fear of Change in Organization (Boni Satani)
How To Be A Leader No Matter What Your Role Is (Deanna deBara)
How to get your organization started with containerized deployments (Sarah Khalife)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing the Android for Cars App Library (Eric Bahna)
Flutter: Taking Pictures with the Bloc Pattern (Laurent Pinon)
Flutter — Visual Studio Code Extensions for Fast and Efficient Development (Ganesh .s.p)
Announcing Ionic Vue (Liam DeBeasi)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Core Podcast – What Have I Missed with Zac Braddy (Jamie Taylor)
Hanselminutes – Virtual Desktop is what VR needs – with Guy Godin (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 114: Shawn Swyx Wang (Michael Chan)
ASP.NET Core Series: PWA’s with Blazor | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & jorgievision)
Why and How Use Azure Active Directory (AAD) with Blazor Web Assembly (WASM) (Frank Boucher)
Build SQL Database Projects Easily in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed (Marisa Brasile)
Performance Profiling | Database Tool | Visual Studio Toolbox (Esteban Herrera & Leslie Richardson)
CppCast – Bazel with Lukács Berki and Julio Merino (Rob Irving)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 207: SQL Trail 2020 Retrospective (Carlos L. Chacon)
Rocket 302: Donut Shaped Magnets with Rene Ritchie (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – The downside of going viral with your programming joke (Emily Kager, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
RunAs Radio – The Pandemic is Not Going Away Any Time Soon and Other Stories with Lauren Malhoit (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)

Community & Events

ASP.NET Community Standup (Oct 27) – Updating Scott Hanselman’s blog to .NET 5 (.NET Team)
The .NET Docs Show (Oct 19) – Reactive Extensions for UI frameworks with Rodney Littles II and The .NET Docs Show (Oct 26) – Blazor & Comet ☄️ for Native Mobile Apps with Sam Basu (.NET Docs Team)
Join us for the Power Platform Community Conference – October 22nd (Jonathon Levesque)
Try something new at Local Hack Day: Learn (Elise Hollowed)
DevReach 2.0(20) After Hours—Because We Want to Hang Out with You Some More (Ivana Dimitrova)

Database

My SQL Server Toolbox (Taryn Pratt)
Multi Tables – 1 Drop Statement – SQL in Sixty Seconds #134 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How does the SharePoint Framework work? (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Announcing the Microsoft Bing app on Xbox (Bing Team)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3092 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-10-16 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #627 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading List 266 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming (Stephen Cleary) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 15, 2020 (#3297)

Posted on October 15, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

MVVM Toolkit Preview 3 & The Journey of an API (Michael Hawker)
.NET Foundation September/October 2020 Update (Claire Novotny)
.NET Internals: System.Threading.Channels – UnboundedChannel Part 3 (Steve Gordon)
How to Add gRPC to Your Blazor App (Richard Reedy)
Even better code review in GitHub for mobile (Ryan Nystrom)

Web & Cloud Development

Running SQL Server Integration Tests in .NET Core Projects via Docker (Georg Dangl)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 278 – Azure Functions on Kubernetes with KEDA Part 2 of 2 and Tip 279 – Serverless operations with Azure DevOps and Tip 280 – 5 Tips to save money with Virtual Machines and Tip 281 – Working remote for developers and teams (Michael Crump)
Fire-and-forget HTTP Requests using Node.js (Simon Knott)
Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes: It’s On (Keith Basil)
Using A Single, Pre-Compiled Keyword Search Target For Filtering In Angular 10.1.5 (Ben Nadel)
Using Blazor JavaScript Isolation with Library Manager (Jimmy Engstrom)
Azure SDK Release (October 2020) (Azure Team)
Preview: Using DocumentEditor for DS Server in ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
Build And Deploy An Angular Form With Netlify Forms And Edge (Zara Cooper)
Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis now in preview (Kyle Teegarden)
How to Create a Realistic Motion Blur with CSS Transitions (Neale Van Fleet)
Avoiding Serverless Anti-Patterns with Observability (Sarjeel Yusuf)
How to Validate FHIR Resources like a Boss (Ardon Toonstra)
If one is good, two must be better [markdownlint-cli2 is a new kind of command-line interface for markdownlint] (David Anson)
Building Neural Networks with PyTorch in Google Colab (Exxact Team)
Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge (MS Edge Team)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Adding Dark Theme Support for Xamarin Forms Shell (Mitch Sellers)
5 Tips to Easily Use the Grid for Layouts in Xamarin.Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
OTP Auto-Fill Entry for iOS with Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)

Visual Studio & .NET

C#.NET: How to convert List to String Data Type (Asma Khalid)
Design patterns in C# – The Decorator Pattern (Carmel Eve)
Entity Framework Core SQL Server reverse engineering a.k.a Database First gotchas (and workarounds) (Erik EJ)
Architecting .NET Desktop and Mobile applications (Damir Arh)
Integrate Kintone Data Using ADO.NET (Manpreet Kaur)
How to Upgrade .NET CLI Templates (Kevin Griffin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Recurring Schedules in Azure DevOps Release Pipelines – Artifacts and Stages (Kendra Little)
New FREE eBook: Unit Testing in .NET—The Complete Guide (Mihail Vladov)
Benefits for Application Packaging (Horatiu Vladasel)
Consistency is Our Friend and Enemy (Scott Hannen)
Estimates Are Temporary (Steve Smith)
Acquiring DevelopIntelligence and launching new experiences to help you build better (Pluralsight)
A few words on Git. (Hadi Hariri)
Breaking Serverless on Purpose with Chaos Engineering (Jennifer Riggins)
Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users (Madhu Balakrishna)
Test Series: Part 1 – Understanding Testing Strategies (Jason Farrell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Animate Spritesheets in a Unity 2D Game (Nic Raboy)
Optimize your app publishing process with new Google Play Console features (Steve Suppe)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Migrating .NET Applications to Azure with Mike Richter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Real Talk JS Episode 105: Cats as a Service (John Papa)
Service Creation via .NET Core Templates – Webinar recording (Maarten Balliauw)

Community & Events

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at .conf20: Expanding our Reach (Suzanne McGovern)
How Regional Personality Differences Divide America (Sophie Putka)
Understanding Open-Source: Your Role (Mitch Sellers)
How we open sourced docs.github.com (Janice Niemeir)
Kamala Harris’ Ultimate Guide For Women Managing Male Entitlement (Shanthi Blanchard)
Reimagine our world with technology in the 2021 Imagine Cup (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

SQL Server Clustered Index Fragmentation on GUID Columns (Mohammed Moinudheen)
SQL SERVER 2019 – Performance Issues After Upgrading from SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
The October 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
Migrate Large Azure MySQL Between Subscriptions (Dave Lawlor)
Distributed database transactions spanning multiple Azure SQL Managed Instances (Azure Team)
Getting a result index score from RavenDB Map/Reduce results (Oren Eini)
Improve database performance with connection pooling (Michael Aboagye)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How To Enable Advanced Teams Audio Features Including Hard Mute (Steve Goodman)

Miscellaneous

Binary Classification Using PyTorch: Defining a Network (James McCaffrey)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Outbound Marketing to Developers (a.k.a. Email Marketing) (Developer Media)
Effectively removing the FLS Slot allocation limit in Windows 10 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3091 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-10-15 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering React Test-Driven Development (Daniel Irvine) – Referral Link

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