December 2020 – Page 6 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 9, 2020 (#3335)

Top Links

Microsoft Learning Path – Build community-driven software projects on GitHub (MS Learn)
Infer#: Interprocedural Memory Safety Analysis For C# (Xin Shi)
Implementing an Effective Architecture for ASP.NET Core Web API (Chris Woodruff)
Porting the Contoso UWP showcase application to Uno Platform (Connor Park)
New from Universe 2020: Dark mode, GitHub Sponsors for companies, and more (Shanku Niyogi)
Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 2 and New Year Wishes Coming to You! (Jacqueline Widdis)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes 1.20: The Raddest Release (Kubernetes Release Team)
Dark mode for your web applications (using Blazor and Tailwind CSS) (Jon Hilton)
How Not to Use React Hooks (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Kubernetes 1.20: A Big Release to Celebrate the End of 2020 (Jeremy Rickard)
.NET 5 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET Core (Jonathan Allen)
Managing SignalR ConnectionIds (or why you shouldn’t) (Kevin W. Griffin)
Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript (Louis Lazaris)
Tricky, Tricky—Hidden Migration Tips for Vue 3 (Plamen Zdravkov)
Tooling your typescript create react app to work with GraphQL (Theophilus Omoregbee)
What is Cloud-Native Storage? (William Jimenez)
Preventing HTTPS Downgrade Attacks (Andrea Chiarelli)
Client-Side Packages for X19 Available (Bjoern Meyer)
What’s New in Azure Logic Apps (Derek Li)
Debugging Microservices in the Cloud (Emrah Samdan)
NVIDIA A100 Deep Learning Benchmarks for TensorFlow (Exxact Team)
Build and publish container images to any cloud with Infrastructure as Code (Joe Duffy)
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services (Mark Downie)
Horizontal Smooth Scroll Layouts (Mary Lou)
Testing Your GraphQL Server (Thomas Moore)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Meet the RadPopUp Control for Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Top 5 Features of WPF TreeView (Neelakandan Kannan)

Visual Studio & .NET

What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter (Arthur Casals)
Configure IntelliSense with CMake Toolchain Files in Visual Studio 2019 16.9 Preview 2 (Erika)
Visual Studio Code C++ Extension: ARM and ARM64 support (Julia Reid)
Cryptography Improvements in .NET 5 – Support for PEM (Tomasz Pęczek)
.NET December 2020 Updates – 5.0.1 (Rahul Bhandari)
Common Use Cases For .NET Reflection (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Clean Architecture End to End in .NET 5 (Jay Krishna Reddy)
Building End-to-End Diagnostics: ActivitySource and OpenTelemetry 1.0 (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 RC (Gloridel Morales)
The Ultimate Guide To Team Project Management (Kat Boogaard)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Small Basic + micro:bit (Ed Price)
Program a simple game with Elixir (Moshe Zadka)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.20, with Jeremy Rickard (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Developer Tea – Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 437: Architecture of Flutter with Tim Sneath (Gavin Henry)
How to Automate Disaster Recovery in SQL Server On-Prem | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Chrissy LeMaire)
Level-Up Engineering Podcast – The Ultimate Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders with Sarah Milstein & Tanisha Barnett (Gábor Zöld)
Anyone can be a developer with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams! | The Solutions Show with Corey (Corey Sanders & Bryony Wolf)
RunAs Radio – Rick Claus and Joey Snow with Gadgets for the Pandemic (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 219 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

A Developer’s Guide to IoT (Online Event) (Paul DeCarlo)
Minecraft kicks off Community Celebration with free content (Athima Chansanchai)
NativeScript Now a Member of the OpenJS Foundation (Bruno Couriol)
Announcing Syncfusion’s 2021 Succinctly Readers Awards! (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Planning to succeed with the Partner Readiness Assessment (Kymber Lowe)

Database

SQL SERVER – Convert Formatted Integer Values into Date (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Introduction to PowerShell (Chris Noring)
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1 (Jason Helmick)
Get started with PowerShell on Microsoft Learn! (Thomas Maurer)
Using PSExec with Windows Terminal (Michael Niehaus)

Miscellaneous

Do you want to run Android apps on Windows 10? (And if so, why?) (Mary Jo Foley)
5 good books for a lousy year (Bill Gates)
Top 5 new features coming from Microsoft Surface Hub (Frank Buchholz)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.685 (20H2) (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3130 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-09 (Dan Rigby)
Last Week in .NET #21 – Remembering the women of École Polytechnique (George Stocker)

The Geek Shelf

The Customer-Driven Playbook: Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products (Travis Lowdermilk & Jessica Rich) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 8, 2020 (#3334)

Top Links

Basic Home Networking 101 – Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #17 (Scott Hanselman)
Bring lights in Unity into the real-world using Philips Hue (Paul Marsh)
Dart: Why nullable types? (Bob Nystrom)
Use C# 9 records and init-only properties in ReSharper and Rider 2020.3 (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

Speed Up Your Angular Application with Code Splitting (Ashnita Bali)
Azure SDK Release (November 2020) (Azure Team)
Using multiple APIs in Angular and ASP.NET Core with Azure AD authentication (Damien Bowden)
Migrating Vue 2 to Vue 3 (John Papa)
Skeleton Screens for React Apps (Leonardo Maldonado)
Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 (Xueyuan Jia)
Resize-Resilient `content-visibility` Fixes (Alex Russell)
Using action results and content negotiation with “route-to-code” APIs (Andrew Lock)

Visual Studio & .NET

Announcing PostSharp 6.8 RC: Support for .NET 5, C# 9 and improvements in logging (Lejla Rasic)
Automate a Markdown links page with Pinboard and C# (Dave Brock)
Creating your first CRUD app with Suave and F# (Diogo Souza)
The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Predicting Die Hard fans with ML.NET and C# (Thomas Ardal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Measuring developer productivity (Isaac Lyman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Learn Bash by writing an interactive game (Jim Hall)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Why should I use React Hooks? (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – System.CommandLine with Jon Sequeira and Kathleen Dollard (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
CodeNewbie S14:E5 – What is Typescript and when should you use it (Dan Vanderkam) (CodeNewbie Team)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 173 – bUnit: A Blazor Testing Lib w/ Egil Hansen (John Callaway)
C# with CSharpFritz – S2 Ep 2: Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC (Jeff Fritz)
Asp.Net Monsters #194: Single File Applications in .NET 5 (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
Measure and optimize app retention like a pro – Apps, Games & Insights Episode 15 (Nir Eyal & Marcus Gners)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Fluid Framework and Distributed Systems with Kurt Berglund (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #294 – oso authorizes Python (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 108 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Isabelle van Campenhoudt)
Welcome and How to Build and Scale a Local Community (Dona Sarkar)
Be a Force for Good – Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program (Josh N.)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Azure Podcast Episode 357 – Verifiable Identity with Blockchain (Sujit D’Mello)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 31: Celebrating the Holidays with Trader Joe’s Crew – And Cookies! (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

GitHub Release Radar · December 2020 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report (Mozilla)
I want to learn about these six things in 2021 (Richard Seroter)

Database

Change Database and Table Collation – SQL in Sixty Seconds #145 (Pinal Dave)
Managing indexing through the Azure Portal in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB (Tim Sander)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s new in Teams Phones | December 2020 (MS Teams Team)
How to: create and add a OneNote tab to your Microsoft Teams team channel using Power Automate + Graph API (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Is it too late to stop climate change? (Bill Gates)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3129 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-08 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #639 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor: How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework (Michael Washington) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 7, 2020 (#3333)

Top Links

Blazor WebAssembly (client-side) with AOT and SkiaSharp (Uno Platform Team)
TeamCity integration with .NET, Part 1: New approach and demo (Maria Kudryavtseva)
Remote Debugging for Azure Functions Can Be a Breeze (Simon Timms)
C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 3: JSON serialization (Thomas Levesque)
Michael Hawker on the Windows Community – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 118 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

Using A Top Of -1px To Observe Position Sticky Intersection Changes In Angular 11.0.3 (Ben Nadel)
ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Async File Uploads (Ricardo Peres)
Azure Communication Services – Building an experimental messaging solution (Abhijit Jana)
How To Install An ASP.NET Core In .NET 5 App On Ubuntu 20.04 (David Grace)
Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs (Dave Brock)
The Reason and ReasonReact world is quite confusing now that Reason is being rebranded as ReScript. (Dave Bush)
CSS Variables are cool (Leon Bambrick)
Next-Level React Performance (Leonardo Maldonado)
User Registration with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
Get Up and Running with Azure Synapse and Pulumi (Mikhail Shilkov)
Announcing the new Azure Service Bus Client Libraries (Richard Park)
Upcoming Changes to the Messenger API (Facebook Dev Team)
Getting Started with Go Programming (Manoj Debnath)
ESLint v7.15.0 released (ESLint Team)
Expanding the Vocabulary for Run in Postman Buttons (Kin Lane)
Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body (John Gathogo)
Working with the Microsoft Health Bot (Mike Gannotti)
npm Release v7.1.0 (Ruy Adorno)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Load idiom-specific Storyboard in Xamarin.iOS with MvvmCross (Denys Fiediaiev)
Xamarin.Forms – Open App Store or Play Store in XamarinApp (Delpin Susai Raj)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to MongoDB in C# – Part 1 (Rami Honig)
Use HashiCorp Vault C# Client with .NET Core (Yoko Hyakuna)
Design patterns in C# – The Proxy Pattern (Carmel Eve)
ADO.NET provider 7.10.0.0 for Firebird is ready (Jiří Činčura)
Distributed logging with Serilog, Elastic Search, and PostSharp (Gael Fraiteur)
Rethrowing your exceptions wrong in .NET could erase your stacktrace (Niels Swimberghe)
Add Configuration to a .Net Core Console Application (Paul Michaels)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile? and AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility and AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change (James Shore)
How I Think About My Career – Part One and How I Think About My Career – Part Two – Assessing My Position (Den Delimarsky)
New in TeamCity 2020.2: Agentless Build Steps (Marco Behler)
Branching tests (Mark Seemann)
Self-service runbooks for operations teams (Adrian Howchin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Short Unity tip: conditional compilation with custom preprocessor directives and Short Unity tip: keeping values changed in play mode (Joost van Schaik)
Build Stacks in Appflow (Matt Kremer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Emily Cooper on the ISTI STEM Challenge (David Giard)
Microsoft Stories podcast: episode 7 – Abbey Road (Andy Trotman)
Merge Conflict 231: No M1 Talk We Promise… (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Developer Tea – Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with GitOps | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
How did I become a Cloud Advocate? | One Dev Question and What is Machine Learning? | One Dev Question and What is Azure Machine Learning? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – The DDD Conferences! (Dan Clarke)
The Amp Hour #520 – Inductance and Stuff (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Serverless Chats Episode #78: Statefulness and Serverless with Rodric Rabbah (Jeremy Daly)
AGL 185: Average Joe with Shawn Livermore (John Rouda)
Loosely Coupled Show – Caching ProTip: DON’T. Caching is difficult (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
Revision Path – Malika Reid (Maurice Cherry)
OzcodeVSExtention FINAL (Ozcode Team)

Community & Events

On Inclusion (Shawn Wildermuth)
Your DevOps guide to GitHub Universe (Grace Madlinger)
Advent Of Code For Programmers (Sue Gee)
December Webinars & Remote Work Resources (Adam Schau)
A Note to the PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles (David Cassel)
Geek of the Week: Brightloom’s Jacqueline Nolis wrote the book on how to become a data scientist (Kurt Schlosser)
How an all-girls high school prepped this exec for the male-dominated field of software engineering (Lisa Stiffler)
Advent of Code 2020 (Mark Heath)

Database

How to Get SQL Server Info Using SERVERPROPERTY? (Mohamed El-Qassas)
SQL SERVER – Long Running Queries with Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB and multi region setup (Oren Eini)
How to Execute a PowerShell Script from an SSIS Package (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Host your next virtual party in Microsoft Teams with apps and screen sharing games (MS Teams Team)
Tasks in Teams mobile is rolling out to everyone (MS Planner Team)

PowerShell

How to Use PowerShell Calculated Properties (Russell Smith)
Monitor the Windows Event Logs and Performance Metrics with PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 11, EPR Quantum Key Distribution (Filip W.)
PowerToys 0.28 (pre-release) adds Video conference mute utility (Kunal Chowdhury)
Book excerpt: How activists must harness new technologies to change the world (Steve Davis)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3128 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-07 (Dan Rigby)
Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) (Chris Pietschmann)
The .NET Stacks, #28: The future of MVC and themes of .NET 6 (Dave Brock)
Friday Five: Azure Sentinel, Power Automate, More! (MVP Award Team)
Code Maze Weekly #54 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Overflow #50: A CS degree from Big Tech (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Reading Notes #453 (Frank Boucher)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 288 – 5th Dec 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)
C# Digest Issue #340 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.12.04 (Steven Murawski)
F# Weekly #49, #FsAdvent and Fable 3 (Sergey Tihon)
Azure Advocate Weekly Round Up – Holidays are almost here! (Sean Boyer)
Weekly Notes – #40 (Miguel Bernard)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core 3 and React: Hands-On full stack web development using ASP.NET Core, React, and TypeScript 3 (Carl Rippon) – Referral Link

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