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Dew Drop – November 21, 2019 (#3077)

Posted on November 21, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly (Tim Anderson)
Begin to Code C# with Visual Studio 2019 video now available (Rob Miles)
Cortana on Windows (Beta)–Now with more productivity! (Windows Insider Team)
Build an ASP.NET Core Update Panel with Vanilla JavaScript in Four Easy Steps (Phil Haack)

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Web & Cloud Development

Symfony 4.3 + Vue.js: PHP Apps Made Simple (Krasimir Hristozov)
WebStorm 2019.3 Release Candidate Is Out (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Angular Mastery: NgClass & NgStyle (Erxk Verduin)
Moving From Lambda ƛ to Azure Functions and Blazor and WebAssembly and Advanced Blazor: Shared Assemblies and Debugging from Edge and Serverless HTTP With Durable Functions (Jeremy Likness)
JavaScript Fundamentals: Prototype Chains (Leonardo Maldonado)
Understanding Azure Storage Options (Monica Rathbun)
Build your own React (Robin Rendle)
When Building Containers from Source Code, Repeatability is Key. Pivotal Build Service is Here to Help. (Dan Baskette)
Building microservices through Event Driven Architecture part9: Implementing EventSourcing on Application (Gora Leye)
Introducing Pulumi Query (Joe Duffy)
20 Nuxt Modules (with Tips) to Increase Your Productivity and Build Web Apps Faster (Nada Rifki)
Creating A Rich Text Editor In Blazor Using Quill (Michael Washington)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Pull-to-refresh with Xamarin.Forms RefreshView and Azure DevOps Settings for Xamarin iOS 13 and Android 10 Apps (James Montemagno)
x:Load attribute – Optimize the startup, visual tree creation, and memory usage of your XAML app (MS Docs)

Visual Studio & .NET

TaskMonitor: Free Yourself From async void and MOAR (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
15 Tips and Tricks to Increase Your Productivity in Visual Studio 2019 (Karthik E.)
7 Easy Steps to Add Custom Controls to Visual Studio Toolbox (Manojbabu)
Using proper culture with C# string interpolation (Martin Zikmund)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How Leaders Create Agile Organizations w/ Lee Wiesehuegel (Dave Prior)
Windows Installer Guide (Horatiu Vladasel)
Build macOS projects with AppVeyor (AppVeyor Team)
Scaling Culture: Retain Your Developer Team’s Soul During Fast Growth (CodingSans)
The Top 5 Blockers To Your Productivity (And How To Hack Each One) (Lauren Moon)
Coming Soon: Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Progressive Web Apps in Ionic React (Mike Hartington)
Flutter Design Patterns: 6 — State (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
What’s new with nativescript-dev-appium? (Emil Tabakov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – How To Get Better At Problem Solving (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Configuring Your Cloud using .NET with Joe Duffy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
PowerScripting Podcast Episode 326 – Adam Bertram (Jonathan Walz)
Software Engineering Daily – HTTP with Julia Evans (Jeff Meyerson)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #372: Data is the New Oil – Artificial Intelligence and Oracle Digital Assistant (Bob Rhubart)
React Podcast 73: Brian Vaughn on Fast Refresh for Web and Concurrent React Dev Tools (Michael Chan)
Complete Developer Podcast – Learning Legacy Technologies (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Doing DevOps with SAP | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
Collection View All The Things | Partly Cloudy (Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

What’s New to Xamarin.Forms 4+ Webinar Q&A (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Case Study: How GrapeCity Used ContentLab to Increase Their Share of Conversation (ContentLab IO)
Going from idea to company, outside of Silicon Valley (Derrick Harris)
Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 6: Hook Your Reader with a Great Title (Johanna Rothman)
Reconnect Series: Jacky Yau (MVP Award Team)
Announcing the 2019 Go Developer Survey (Todd Kulesza)

Database

SQL SERVER – Batch Mode in RowStore – Performance Comparison (Pinal Dave)
Execution Plans in Azure SQL Database (Arun Sirpal)
Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 1.1 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2019 (Karan Nigam)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19025 into the Slow ring (Brandon LeBlanc)
Where’s the financial value in the code I write? (Matt Lacey)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2879 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-11-21 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2478 (Mike Gunderloy)
Angular Weekly – 9 Angular ideas often overlooked, 6 micro front-end patterns, schema-dts & more (Andrey from Jexia)
Collective #567 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin in Action (Jim Bennett) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – July 26, 2019 (#2998)

Posted on July 26, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

SQL Server Management Studio 18.2 is now generally available (Dinakar Nethi)
ASP.NET Core 3.0 on RaspberryPi and Windows 10 IoT Core (Gunnar Peipman)
Debugging Tips and Tricks Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Building an API with Firebase (Andrew Evans)

Web & Cloud Development

Fighting File Downloads and Dinosaurs with NSwag (via ASP.Net Boilerplate) (Lee Richardson)
Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments (Stevan Vidich)
Getting Started with Kubernetes on Windows (Elton Stoneman)
Telerik UI for Blazor 1.4.0 is Here! (Maria Veledinova)
What I Like About Vue (Robin Rendle)

Visual Studio & .NET

EditorConfig support in OmniSharp and C# extension VS Code (Filip W.)
Improved Linker Fundamentals in Visual Studio 2019 (Russell Hadley)
Remote SSH access with Visual Studio Code (Sana Ajani)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Managing Jenkins Artifacts with the Azure Artifact Manager Plugin (Jie Shen)
Why You Need To Forecast Your Feelings To Achieve Big Goals (Kiera Abbamonte)
Building a Modern CI/CD Pipeline in the Serverless Era with GitOps (Shimon Tolts)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Updates in the NativeScript CLI 6.0: Bundle Workflow, Webpack-only, and HMR by default (Stanimira Vlaeva)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 58: Creating and Deploying Azure Resources with ARM Templates (David Giard)
Hanselminutes – Learning about nanotechnology and molecular biology with Upulie Divisekera (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Daily – Software IPOs with Tomas Tunguz (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Belief Substitution (Jonathan Cutrell)
Data Migration Assistant | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
Introduction to AndroidX for Xamarin | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Azure Podcast Episode 289 – HashiCorp and Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
React Podcast 56: Paul Henschel on React Spring (Michael Chan)
CppCast – Cologne Trip Report with Botond Ballo and Tom Honermann (Rob Irving)
The Changelog – Go is eating the world of software (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Rocket 237: A First! (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 82 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

Weekend Picks: XPoNential Music Fest, First Amendment Comedy Takeover, East Passyunk Car Show & More (Shannon Wink)

Database

Two big reasons to use SQL Server Management Studio 18 – High DPI Support and Query Results Output Now 2 MB (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – Number of Rows Read Per Threads in Parallel Operations (Pinal Dave)
Execute SSIS Package in Azure-SSIS (Andy Leonard)
Azure SQL Database Connect and Query (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

Pester Result Reporting With Suggestions And XSL Support (Prasoon Karunan v)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Launcher 5.7.0 beta version is now available for your testing! (Gorden Lin)
Stack Overflow – Introducing Custom Filters (Jon Chan)
What is Microsoft doing with Cortana? (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2796 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-07-26 (Dan Rigby)
Friday Five: Introducing Azure Sentinel, Azure Sentinel Connector with Palo Alto Firewalls, and more (MVP Award Team)
Roundup #49: .NET Core 3 Preview 7, MasterMemory, Alternatives to Microsoft.FeatureManagement, Monolith Decomposition Patterns (Derek Comartin)
Collective #535 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

React Native in Action (Nader Dabit)

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Dew Drop – June 28, 2019 (#2989)

Posted on June 28, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

4 Awesome Things In Xamarin.Forms 4.0 | The Xamarin Show | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
.NET Rocks! – Authentication with Auth0 2019 with Vittorio Bertocci (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Code like Mads (Mads Kristensen)
Introducing tracking prevention, now available in Microsoft Edge preview builds (Brandon Maslen & Ryan Cropp)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Chained Certificates for Certificate Authentication in ASP.NET Core 3.0 (Damien Bowden)
WebStorm 2019.2 EAP #5: improvements for the Rename refactoring and type hints (Ekaterina Prigara)
Cloud Design Patterns Infographic (Chris Pietschmann)
Choosing the Right React Datepicker UI Component (Eric Bishard)
Enabling Service Workers to Support preload Browser Requests (Chris Love)
Copying Azure Blobs Between Containers the Quick Way (Mark Heath)
Using the BodyReader and BodyWriter in ASP.NET Core 3.0 (Steve Gordon)
Creating an Azure Data Factory and Pipeline (David Giard)
What is Accessibility for Web Apps and Why Do I Care? (John Willoughby)
Build a Diary Web Application with Couchbase as the Back-end (Laura Czajkowski)
Node v12.5.0 (Current) (Ruben Bridgewater)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Declarative Code-Based Xamarin.Forms UI using CSharpForMarkup and Continuous (Ryan Davis)
Introducing Xamarin.Forms Switch Component (Selva Ganapathy K)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET Framework June 27, 2019 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1903 (Brett Lopez)
A VS Code Extension for Managing Profiles (Aaron Powell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 153 (Anisha Pindoria)
How To Be The Remote Employee That Proves The Stereotypes Aren’t True (Abby Wolfe)
4 Benefits of CI/CD (Chrissie Buchanan)
Minimum Requirements Documentation: A Matter of Context (Johanna Rothman)
Tribal Knowledge – The Anti-DevOps Culture (Silviano Blea)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Expanding the Visual Studio App Center Network with OneSignal (John Wargo)
Getting to the Bottom of Navigation in Flutter (Hans Muller)
How to use your Raspberry Pi as a VPN server (Sam Bocetta)
Using Dependency Injection to Mock Network API Service in View Controller (Alfian Losari)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 54: Azure Storage Replication (David Giard)
Flutter: Click | Pick | Crop | Compress an Image | AndroidX (MTechViral)
Hanselminutes – Hanselminutiae 19 with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Daily – Citus Data: Founding to Acquisition with Umur Cubukcu (Jeff Meyerson)
2019-06-17 – (VOD) Let’s implement a deploy to Azure button into a GitHub repo (Frank Boucher)
Code Like Nate (Nate)
CppCast – Functional Programming in C++ with Ivan Čukić (Rob Irving)
Rocket 233: Apple Rumor Klaxon (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
Voices in AI – Episode 90: A Conversation with (Byron Reese)
React Podcast 52 – Be Visible Sophia Shoemaker (Michael Chan)

Community & Events

Weekend Picks: Wawa Welcome America, Fireworks, Soccer At The Linc, Hugh Jackman And More (Shannon Wink)

Database

Understanding SQL Server Linked Servers (Eric Binn)
Enter data privacy. Exit SQL Server 2008. (James Boother)
SQL SERVER – Add Database to Availability Group Failure – This BACKUP or RESTORE Command is Not Supported on a Database Mirror or Secondary Replica (Pinal Dave)
The Path to the Modern Data Warehouse is a Stream (Bob Glithero)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Teams Gets Urgent Message Capability for Personal Chats (Tony Redmond)
Update on Microsoft Kaizala becoming part of Microsoft Teams (Heather Gordon)

PowerShell

How to Copy files from Windows to Linux using PowerShell Remoting (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers — and here are some techniques you can use (Laura Hazard Owen)
Microsoft is moving Cortana into a separate app in the Windows store (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2776 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2375 (Mike Gunderloy)
Roundup #46: .NET Core 1 EOL, EF Core 3.0, WCF OSS, Hidden Gems in .NET Core 3 (Derek Comartin)
Friday Five: C#.NET Import/Export CSV Library, Thread.SpinWait implementation, and more! (MVP Award Team)

The Geek Shelf

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook: Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions, 2nd Edition (Praveen Kumar Sreeram)

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