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Dew Drop – June 22, 2021 (#3468)

Posted on June 22, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Let’s Learn .NET – Blazor – Free Live Stream Event (James Montemagno)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 201 – Sustainable OSS with Rockford Lhotka (John Callaway)
Debug & Analyze Dump Files in Visual Studio (Mark Downie)
Charlie Kindel on Terminal.Gui – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 146 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Solitaire in Blazor Part 3 – Drawing, Discarding, and the Stacks (Matthew Jones)

Web & Cloud Development

Tailwind CSS v2.2 (Adam Wathan)
Build serverless, full stack applications in Azure (Anna Hoffman)
Azure SDK Release (June 2021) (Azure SDK Team)
Node.js Server Monitoring Best Practices (Charris Herrera)
How to migrate and modernize Linux workloads and open source databases to Azure (Chhavi Nijhawan)
Image To Text Conversion With React And Tesseract.js (OCR) (Ayobami Ogundiran)
What is Tailwind CSS (Siddharth Chaudhary)
Upload and resize an image natively with ASP.NET Core ️ (Thomas Ardal)
The cost of the cloud (Oren Eini)
Aurelia 2 Update – Alpha 8 (Dwayne Charrington)
The State of WebAssembly 2021 (Colin Eberhardt)
Web Development for Beginners: A new Learning Path on Microsoft Learn (Chris Noring)
What Web Designers Can Do to Create Lightweight and Faster Mobile UIs (Suzanne Scacca)
Always Show Arrows for Number Input (David Walsh)
Build serverless real-time chat application with Web PubSub and Static Web Apps (Yan Jin)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

What’s New in .NET MAUI Preview 5 (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Creating an Append-Only List Wrapper in C# (Ilyana)
Convert TXT to PDF in C#, VB, and Java (Gabriel Smith)
Default Your FirstOrDefault in .NET 6.0 (Adam Storr)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What is Figma? A Design Crash Course [2021 Tutorial] (Adrian Twarog)
Clean code tip: Principle of Least Surprise (Davide Bellone)
Top 10 Git Commands Every Developer Should Know (Gayathri Sankar Raj)
GitHub Packages Container registry is generally available (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
So, what the heck is *outbound* product management, and should you have this function too? (Richard Seroter)
Can InnerSource bring open source practices to closed corporate bureaucracies? (Ryan Donovan)
How to become more productive with Gitlab CI (Veethika Mishra)
5 Development Best Practices That Will Help You Craft Better Tests (Dave Brock)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi R2D2 console (plus tons of other Star Wars projects) (Ashley Whittaker)
Google’s UI Toolkit Flutter 2.2 Claims Cross-Platform Crown (Karsten Silz)
How to Create Sign-in Buttons in Flutter (Luciano Jung)
Unity 2021.2 beta is available for feedback (Eduardo Oriz & Thomas Petersen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – CSRF Explained (Wes Bos)
InfoQ Podcast: Chris Richardson on Design-Time Coupling in Microservices (Chris Richardson)
CodeNewbie S16:E7 – How you can build communities for love and profit (Veni Kunche) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Adekunle Oduye (Maurice Cherry)
React Native Radio 201 – We React to News (Jamon Holmgren, Jon Major Condon & Robin Heinze)
Translate documents at scale and preserve formatting with Azure Translator | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Krishna Doss)
Learn to Code with Me S8E3: From Prison to Programming: How Nikkole Spurgeon Learned to Code While Incarcerated (Laurence Bradford)
The Power to Automate – Adventures in .NET 074 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
The Stack Overflow Podcast #349 – The “No-Code” tools bringing software to analog industries closed during the pandemic (Ben Popper, Dara Perl & Colton Beach)
The Amp Hour #546 – Thousands Of Dependencies (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph Connectors with Brian T. Jackett (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
DBAle 33: Data Cataloging, a giraffe’s eye view (Chris Kerswell & Chris Unwin)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 132 – Nicole Woon (Microsoft) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Microsoft Viva, The Essentials video series and Zero Trust, The Essentials video series (Zachary Cavanell)
Google Cloud Security Podcast – Double-clicking, but not on fire hydrants, with bot fighters (Anton Chuvakin)

Community & Events

The Dev Talk Show – First Look at .NET 6 (June 23rd) (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
Join us for a Live event on Static Web Apps 30th June 2021 (Lee Stott)
Racial Equity Initiative: A year of progress on our commitments (Lindsay-Rae McIntyre)

Database

Adding Managed Instances to SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups (Brent Ozar)
Released: Update to Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server (David Engel)
COUNT(*) and Index Frequently Asked Questions (Pinal Dave)
New and Improved Import in Couchbase Cloud (Prasad Doddi)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to Easily Turn Teams Messages into Tasks (Michael Reinders)

Miscellaneous

The Surface Duo keeps getting cheaper. What does that mean for Microsoft’s mobile strategy? (Daphne Leprince-Ringuet)
How to Make Tech Interviews Suck Less (Jennifer Riggins)
Microsoft has big plans for healthcare, and it’s taking a different path to the rest of big tech (Jo Best)
The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 16: The calling convention (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3257 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-22 (Dan Rigby)
.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022 (Arthur Casals)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #13 (Sam Basu)
[Last Week in .NET #47] – 11 follows X (George Stocker)
Weekly Notes – #68 (Miguel Bernard)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 4, 2021 (#3394)

Posted on March 4, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available (Jon Galloway)
Announcing Dart 2.12 (Michael Thomsen)
F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.9 (Phillip Carter)
What’s New in Flutter 2.0 (Chris Sells)
Flutter web support hits the stable milestone (Mariam Hasnany)
Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list (Peter Groenewegen)

Web & Cloud Development

React Without Build Tools (Chris Coyier)
Blazorise Release v0.9.3 (Mladen Macanović)
The FREE Blazor Crash Course (.NET 5) | Getting Started (Claudio Bernasconi)
React authentication, simplified (David Walsh)
Creating Azure Solutions with the new Azure SDKs, F#, and Farmer (Isaac Abraham)
SignalR AbortController is Undefined on Older Browsers (Kevin W. Griffin)
Types in JavaScript (Leonardo Maldonado)
Announcing public preview of Window Admin Center in the Azure portal (Hari Pulapaka)
Taking Phone Calls live on Twitch with OBS, Twilio and JavaScript (Nathaniel Okenwa)
The mindset shift needed for Kubernetes adoption (Part 1) (Sunit Parekh)
Validating the FHIR API Contract as You Use the API and Then Leaving Inline Comments on the OpenAPI (Kin Lane)
The Aurelia 2 Alpha Release Is Now Available (Dwayne Charrington)
Customizing the Electronic Signature Box (Bjoern Meyer)
Announcing Logic Apps Public Preview Refresh (Derek Lee)
Get Started Tracing HTTP Requests in a Few Clicks on Windows, macOS or Linux (Eve Turzillo)
An Architect’s Guide to Hybrid Cloud Storage (Jonathan Symonds)
Angular: Ivy’s internal data structures (Miško Hevery)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

elmah.io: Introducing support for Xamarin (Thomas Ardal)

Visual Studio & .NET

v3.20 – Dart Code – Dart & Flutter support for Visual Studio Code (Dart Code Team)
How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities (Drew Gillies)
Crossing the Generics Divide (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What’s new in MSIX (March 2021 update) (John Vintzel)
Create MSI for Python app (Alex Marin)
AVOID Entity Services by Focusing on Capabilities (Derek Comartin)
Best practices can slow your application down (Roberta Arcoverde & Ryan Donovan)
Hardware for Setting up WebPageTest Agent Devices (Robin Osborne)
Scaling My Application: Am I Ready? (Ron Powell)
Tips for Building Accessible Design Systems (Suzanne Scacca)
How eBay’s Distributed Architecture Surfaces More Item Listings for Buyers (Vikas Singh)
What makes a remote employee successful? (Tarika A.)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Announcing Flutter support for foldable devices (Andrei Diaconu)
Android Dev Challenge: Week 2 – Countdown timer (Florina Muntenescu)
Flutter Folio: A multi-platform scrapbooking app that feels great on every device (Chris Kohanik)
Announcing Flutter 2 (Google Developers)
Start, Build & Deploy Your First Capacitor PWA with Ionic (Simon Grimm)
Resources for Getting Started with Mixed Reality for Unity (April Speight)
the New XR SDK Pipeline with HoloLens 2: Part 2 (James Ashley)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Elasticsearch for .NET with Steve Gordon (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 106: Audio Transcription and Captioning with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Developer Tea – Clean Up Your Goals (Jonathan Cutrell)
Xamarin Community Toolkit – WeakEventManager To Stop Memory Leaks! | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Gerald Versluis)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 012: Idiomatic Code (Ben Nadel)
What are Web APIs? [1 of 18] | Beginner’s Series to: Web APIs | Beginner’s Series to: Web APIs (Cecil Phillip)
Device Update for IoT Hub | Internet of Things Show (Pamela Cortez & Vidhi Mehta)
Design Details 387: Design Craft Tips & Tricks (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
React Native Radio 191 – Advancements in Expo with Brent Vatne (Jamon Holmgren, Bryan Stearns, Brent Vatne & Robin Heinze)
Web Rush Episode 123: Sketchnoting in Tech with Mike Rohde (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 46 MongoDB University M001 with Yulia Genkina (MongoDB Team)
Microsoft Mechanics – Host webinars in Microsoft Teams | Deep dive on new presenter and attendee experiences (Jeremy Chapman & Troy Batterberry)

Community & Events

Meet the Developer: Introducing Dave Auld (DeveloperMedia)
Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 (Eugenio Pace)
Octoverse spotlight: Exploring the people and stories behind GitHub data (Nicole Forsgren)
Webinar: Building Engaging Cross Platform Applications using Rider and Avalonia (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.2 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more | Ignite 2021 Edition (MS Teams Team)
Microsoft Teams Roadmap Watch: updates of Microsoft Ignite 2021 (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

How to Organize Photos by EXIF Date Taken with PowerShell (Jon Gallant)
PowerShell Gems That Every Microsoft 365 Administrator Should Know About (Michael Reinders)
SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2 (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s New Language – Power FX (Janet Swift)
Skill up and show off: Collecting badges on Pluralsight Skills (Pluralsight)
Biden Pushes EV Chargers As Six Utilities Plan a Unified Network (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21327 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Transcribe and translate your in-person meetings and conversations with the new Group Transcribe app (Microsoft Translator Team)
Why use current Exchange infrastructure rather than starting over? (John Moehrke)
Microsoft’s Windows 10 UI overhaul continues with new system icons (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3183 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 15, 2021 (#3381)

Posted on February 15, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Staying safe with .NET containers (Richard Lander)
Uno Platform 3.5 – WinUI 3 Preview 4 support, 4 New Controls and 100+ issues closed (Jerome Laban)
Implementing the MVVM pattern in a WPF app with the MVVM Community toolkit (Bruno Sonnino)
Use project Tye to host Blazor WASM and ASP.NET Web API on a single origin to avoid CORS (Niels Swimberghe)
Announcing TypeScript 4.2 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

YouTube Courses On C++, Python and Blazor (Nikos Vaggalis)
How the Dapr PHP SDK came to be (Robert Landers)
JavaScript Helper Classes: Converting Selected Text to Form Fields (Bjoern Meyer)
Creating Azure Functions using .NET 5 (Brandon Minnick)
Vue 3 Experiments with Native CSS Variables Template Integration (Bruno Couriol)
Azure Functions in C# quick FAQs and tips (Dominique St-Amand)
Install Docker on Windows (WSL) without Docker Desktop (Jonathan Bowman)
5 Misconceptions About Asynchronous Code in JavaScript (Matthew MacDonald)
A Visual Introduction To Azure Fundamentals (Nitya Narasimhan)
How Developers Can Get Started with Python and Docker (Peter McKee)
Angular: Can’t Bind to ‘ngModel’ Since it Isn’t a Known Property of ‘input’ (Peter Vogel)
Regional Settings in Azure App Services (Phil Pursglove)
How to Send Emails in ASP.NET Core – Quick & Easy Guide (Sanjay Modi)
I Was Wrong – Hosting SPAs in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
9 Ways to Up Your Code Game With JavaScript (Taimoor Sattar)
Azure Functions Updates Include Moving .NET Outside the Runtime (Thiago Custódio)
ESLint v7.20.0 released (ESLint Team)
The Aurelia 2 alpha is coming (Dwayne Charrington)
Golang Approves Generics, While Python Accepts Pattern-Matching Proposals (EditorDavid)
Web Proxy Authentication (Eric Lawrence)
Cloud Covered: what was new in January on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Team)
Avoiding npm substitution attacks (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
Argument parsing with Abbot (Phil Haack)
Saga Pattern: how to manage distributed transactions with microservices (Francesco Francomano & Giuseppe Manzi)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Microsoft Preps WinUI 3 for Production Debut Next Month (David Ramel)
Creating a scalable Style Library in Xamarin Forms (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

ICYMI C# 8 New Features: Nested Switch Expressions (Jason Roberts)
.NET 5 Deterministic Builds & Source Linking (Mitchel Sellers)
Returning more than one result from a method – tuple (Michał Białecki)
Debug -> Start New Instance Shortcut (Paul Michaels)
The COM static store, part 5: Using COM weak references (Raymond Chen)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Support Vector Machines (Nikola M. Zivkovic)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Customer Examples (James Shore)
Better Release Management with Octopus Deploy (Bob Walker)
Securing your agency’s remote workforce for today and beyond (Karina Homme)
Research reveals how we really feel about working from home (Microsoft News Centre UK)
Spotify to let employees keep working remotely and now choose what country they work from (Nick Statt)
A Visual Guide To: Sustainable Software Engineering (Nitya Narasimhan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S15:E2 – How to code without typing (Matt Wiethoff, Tommy MacWilliam) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework Core 5 (David Giard)
Developer Tea – Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish (Jonathan Cutrell)
Merge Conflict 241: Goodbye DTK, Hello Mac App Development (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Agile for Humans Episode 118: YDS – Where does a Project Manager Fit on a Scrum Team? (Ryan Ripley)
File Picker (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
How to get better outbound connectivity using Azure NAT Gateway | Azure Friday and Building modern hybrid applications with Azure Arc and Azure Stack | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
TWC9: MSIgnite registration is open, Visual Studio Code 1.53, Azure Space Mystery Game, and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Ask the Expert: Smart Data Pipelines to Azure: Ingesting and migrating data the DataOps way | Ask the Expert (Melanie McKenna)
MCC Lectures@Home – Hello WinUI 3 (Marc Plogas)
Ladybug Podcast – Writing eBooks (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, Emma Bostian & Sidney Buckner)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Why is Python Popular? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Asp.Net Monsters – TwoWeeksReady Codeathon (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
The Changelog – Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites? (Jerod Santo, Divya, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 238 (Jason Bock)
Simon Timms on Microservices Architecture — Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 128 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Talk Python to Me #303 – Python for Astronomy with Dr. Becky (Michael Kennedy)
UI Breakfast Episode 206: Writing Useful Books with Rob Fitzpatrick (Rob Fitzpatrick & Jane Portman)
[Video] Adding Sign Language to your online event (Henk Boelman)

Community & Events

Splunker Stories: Bobbie Travis (Shreya Iyer)
From Europe To Asia, How MVPs Drive Community Upskilling and MVP Launches Tech Hub For Disadvantaged Women (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
How the Tech Community Can Do Better for Black Women (Jennifer Riggins)
Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: Fluent Assertions (Matthias Koch)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Feb. 16-21 (Shannon Wink)

Database

Forwarded Records and Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #155 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Modern SharePoint list formatting (Luise Freese)
How to create an improved Microsoft Teams Files approval process using Azure Logic Apps (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Leverage PowerShell History across multiple machines (Pierre Roman)

Miscellaneous

What you can do to fight climate change (Bill Gates)
VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21313 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Volkswagen will use Microsoft’s cloud technologies to create new Automated Driving Platform (Kareem Anderson)
Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3170 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-02-15 (Dan Rigby)
Friday Five: Azure Stack Edge, Apache JMeter, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Code Maze Weekly #64 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The .NET Stacks #36: ⚡ Azure Functions and some Microsoft history (Dave Brock)
Reading Notes #461 (Frank Boucher)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 296 – 13th Feb 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
C# Digest Issue #350 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #7, 2021 – FunStripe, DacPac TP and F# Discord (Sergey Tihon)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.02.12 (Steven Murawski)
Reading List 271 (Bruce Lawson)
The Overflow #60: Sequencing DNA with a USB dongle and open source (Medi Madelen Gwosdz & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS (Ethan Garofolo) – Referral Link

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