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Dew Drop – December 12, 2019 (#3091)

Top Links

An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels and ConfigureAwait FAQ (Stephen Toub)
Announcing Flutter 1.12: What a year! (Chris Sells)
Announcing Dart 2.7: A safer, more expressive Dart (Michael Thomsen)
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available (Dominic Nahous)
Full Stack Development with ASP.NET Core 3.1 – Jeff Fritz (TechBash Dev Conference)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Moq to Create Fluent Test Classes in ASP.NET Core (Matthew Jones)
Create your own Santa Tracker with Gatsby and React Leaflet (Colby Fayock)
The Konami Code Challenge and The Falling Snow Effect and The Billion Ways to Display an SVG (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
New Filesharing Implementation in Docker Desktop Windows Improves Developer Inner Loop UX (David Scott)
Developing and Deploying ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core for Azure (Mohamed Radwan)
New Book- The HTML and CSS Workshop: A New, Interactive Approach to Learning HTML and CSS (Rob Larsen)
All you need to know on Blazor app and create ASP.NET Core Blazor CRUD App using VS 2019, .NET Core 3 , Web API (Syed Shanu)
Splunk Deep Learning Toolkit 3.0 Release (Philipp Drieger)
Implementing Microservices with gRPC and .NET Core 3.0 (Andrea Chiarelli)
Web support for Flutter goes beta (Mariam Hasnany)
Try out WebView2 with the new interactive API sample (Palak Goel)
W3C Trace Context specification enters proposed recommendation status and what it means (Philippe le Hegaret)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

CSharp for Markup in Xamarin Forms (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

Fixing Random, bonus episode 3 (Eric Lippert)
8 Tips and Tricks for Writing the Best Queries in LINQ to Entities (Selvam M)
Scale your data sharing needs with the power of Azure Data Share’s .NET SDK (Akshat Dave)
Demystifying the new .NET Core 3 Worker Service (Premier Developer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

3 guiding principles to ensure your digital transformation isn’t a waste of time (Amy Herzog)
Behind the scenes: GitHub security alerts (Justin Hutchings)
Shipping Your Product in Iterations: A Guide to Hypothesis Testing (Kumara Raghavendra)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter: the first UI platform designed for ambient computing (Flutter Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – 2019 Gift Guide (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Python for .NET Developers with Michael Kennedy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Azure Sphere for Developers | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
.Net Core Getting Started | Dev SuperPowers .Net Core Tour | Part 1 and .Net Core Blazor | Dev SuperPowers .Net Core Tour | Part 7 and .Net Core SignalR & gRPC | Dev SuperPowers .Net Core Tour | Part 8 and .Net Core Clean Architecture | Dev SuperPowers .Net Core Tour | Part 10 (SSW TV)
Query HDFS data inside SQL Server big data cluster | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
.NET Core Podcast – NodaTime with Jon Skeet (Jamie Taylor)
ID10T Podcast – Karen Gillan (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog – Building an open source excavation robot for NASA (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – How Providers Can Be Innovators – w Neil Patel, Healthbox (Allscripts Healthcare)
Complete Developer Podcast – Sorting Algorithms (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 184: Where do people get stuck with Power BI? (Carlos L. Chacon)
Talk Python to Me #242 – Your education will be live-streamed (Michael Kennedy)
Live from Flutter Interact (MTECHVIRAL)

Community & Events

Electron joins the OpenJS Foundation (Felix Rieseberg)
The Loop #1: How we conduct research on the Community team (Donna Choi)
Blog Post #2500 and A Change of Scene (Mike Taulty)

Database

Create, Alter, Drop and Query SQL Server Views (Rick Dobson)
Tools and commands for running SQL Server 2019 on Linux (Kellyn Gorman)
SQL SERVER – List All the Nullable Columns in Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Resources to help customers with upgrade from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams (Bindu Pillai)

PowerShell

How to use CLI to create dotnet project from powershell or CMD (Anirudha Gupta)

Miscellaneous

Zero to Hero: Less Time in the Valley of Suck (ContentLab IO)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2894 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2491 (Mike Gunderloy)
Angular Weekly – NgModule, using Angular i18n, checking your Angular performance & more (Andrey from Jexia)
Collective #573 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

React for Real: Front-End Code, Untangled (Ludovico Fischer) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – December 9, 2019 (#3088)

Top Links

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1 (Maoni Stephens)
Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from Visual Studio on Windows and Advice to my 20 year old self (Scott Hanselman)
Debugging 3rd Party .NET Code without symbols in Visual Studio (Michael Shpilt)
Should We Be Thinking of APIs in a more Polyglot Way? (Shawn Wildermuth)
Uno Platform bootcamp – a free, full day workshop to get you from zero to hero on Uno is available on GitHub (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Using $any() To Temporarily Disable Type-Checking Within A Component Template In Angular 9.0.0-rc.4 and Rendering A TemplateRef As A Child Of The Body Element In Angular 9.0.0-rc.5 and Rendering A List Of Mixed Types Using NgFor And NgTemplateOutlet In Angular 9.0.0-rc.5 (Ben Nadel)
November 2019 .NET/ASP.NET Documentation Update (Maxime Rouiller)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 237 – Setup an Azure Pipeline with Node.js (Michael Crump)
Integration Testing with ASP.NET Core 3.1 – Testing Your Application (Adam Storr)
Angular: Loading and Saving Local Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
CSS Architecture for Modern JavaScript Applications (Chris Coyier)
Making a weird GIF wall using Azure Functions and SignalR (Em Lazer-Walker)
Azure Advent Calendar – Week 1 recap (Gregor Suttie)
Long running Tasks in Azure (Jamie Maguire)
10 Best Practices to Secure ASP.NET Core MVC Web Applications (Karthik E.)
Working with AWS Lambda in Rider (Matt Ellis)
How to Work with a Text Editor in an Angular 8 Application (Sanwar Ranwa)
Date and Time Selection Made Easy with React DateTime Picker (Saravanan G)
ASP.NET CORE–Slow Start Up (David Yardy)
Accelerate your end-to-end ML lifecycles with semi-automated image annotation using Azure ML (wopauli)
Connect 4 with Electron (Andrew Evans)
Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL (Daniel Velasquez)
Dynamically scoped variables in Go (Dave Cheney)
Do’s and Don’ts of implementing a hamburger menu (Michael Scharnagl)
Beyond Hello World: Containerizing a real-world web application (Shawn Sesna)
Creating Custom TensorFlow Dataset (Nikola M. Zivkovic)
Microsoft Graph presence APIs are now available in public preview (Vinod Ravichandran)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Consuming a GraphQL endpoint with Xamarin (Bas de Cort)
Why are Compiled Data Bindings Important in XAML (Bill Reiss)
Useful converters in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
Add a swipe menu to your Xamarin.Forms app (Daniel Hindrikes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Status of C# 8.0 functional features with a comparison to Haskell (Luca Bolognese)
In C++/WinRT, what happens when I treat an IInspectable as or convert one to a bool (Raymond Chen)
Runtime Host Configuration Options and AppContext data in .NET Core (Filip W.)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Descaling Agile (Gojko Adzic)
Flutter Design Patterns: 8 — Interpreter (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
C++ Unit Testing Best Practice and Why Your Team Needs to Start Unit Testing Right Now (Typemock Team)
14 Symptoms of Change Fatigue (Daniel Lock)
All About OKRs: How To Set Them, Achieve Them, And Track Them In Trello (Kevan Lee)
Eliminating toil with fully automated load testing (Nishant Singh)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android’s commitment to Kotlin (David Winer)
Automating Creating Flutter App Project Folders (John M. Wargo)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Walt Ritscher on Try .NET (David Giard)
Revision Path 324: Jerome Harris (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – Practical AI with Chris Benson (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 179: Analyzing All That Data (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – Better Feedback Loops (Part One) – Validation and Cycle Time (Jonathan Cutrell)
How to use composite indexes and correlated subqueries with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
How to connect virtual networks across Azure regions with Azure Global VNet peering | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
The SitePen Podcast Episode 51: The Illusion That We Are Writing JavaScript (Valerie Kriss)
Unit Testing Prism Apps With Ease | Xamarin Developer Summit (Duane Newman)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Scalability (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
.NET Bytes Episode 12: News from November 7th, 2019 through November 20th, 2019 (Calvin A. Allen & Matthew D. Groves)
Codepunk 052: Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record and Codepunk 053: Secret Service Raid on Steve Jackson Games (Bill Ahern)
The Amp Hour #470 – Just Add Salt (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Mark Fussell on the Distributed Application Runtime or Dapr – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 66 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Serverless Chats Episode #26: re:Inventing Serverless with Chris Munns (Jeremy Daly)
Overview: Big Data Cluster Compute Pool | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
AGL 133: Becoming Independent with Sidar Ok (John Rouda)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – The Best Ways to Prepare for Retirement Healthcare Costs (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Awesome Animated Loaders | Flutter Library of the Week | EP-02 (M T E C H V I R A L)
Talk Python to Me #241 – Opal: Full stack health care apps (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

This Week in Programming: AWS re:Invent for Developers (Mike Melanson)
“I firmly believe you can’t be what you can’t see.” (Gretchen Garland)
24 Brilliant Things To Do In Philadelphia, December 9-15 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

SQL SERVER – Database Scoped Configurations and SQL SERVER – Row Mode and Memory Grant Feedback and What is the Priority of Database Scoped Configurations? – Interview Question of the Week #254 (Pinal Dave)
Manage SQL Server Container Hosted in Azure Container Instances – Part 2 (Carlos Robles)
Dev team chat: Adding static data to SQL Change Automation in SSMS (Kendra Little)

PowerShell

Managing Network Settings with PowerShell 7 (Adam Bertram)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19037 (Brandon LeBlanc)
InfoQ’s 2019, and Software Predictions for 2020 (Charles Humble, Erik Costlow, Arthur Casals, Daniel Bryant, Bruno Couriol, Ben Linders & Shane Hastie)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2891 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-09 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #288 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #49, 2019 – .NET Core 3.1 LTS and first #FsAdvent posts (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #403 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #572 (Pedro Botelho)
GameDev News – December 6, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Reading List 244 (Bruce Lawson)
Friday Five: Getting Started With Power BI, Microsoft Ignite 2019, and more! (MVP Award Team)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.12.06 (Sasha Rosenbaum)
Code Maze Weekly #4 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build applications with C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core, and ML.NET using Visual Studio Code, 4th Edition (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – November 27, 2019 (#3081)

Top Links

Windows 10 features we’re no longer developing (Greg Lindsay, Lucas Arona & Tina Burden)
Learning React: Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game (Brian Lagunas)
An Introduction to Blazor and Web Assembly (Jeremy Likness)
5 Quick Tips For CollectionView (David Ortinau)
Tutorial: Get Comfortable with .NET Core and the CLI (Jeremy Clark)
Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

An Introduction to the Picture-in-Picture Web API (Ayooluwa Isaiah)
How To Send Email From an Azure Web App (Jarred Injaian)
Making Fetch Happen: Replacing Native Plugins with Web APIs (Matt Netkow)
Converting HTML to a Word Document in NodeJS and JavaScript (Michael Szul)
How to write a Python web API with Flask (Rachel Waston)
Using Github Actions to Publish the HTML5 Boilerplate npm Package and HTML5 Boilerplate 7.3.0 Released (Rob Larsen)
Kubernetes for Full-Stack Developers (Nikos Vaggalis)
How to learn Blazor when you don’t use it for your day job (Jon Hilton)
Using WebAssembly With CSP Headers (Aaron Powell)
The Thought Process Behind a Flexbox Layout (Chris Coyier)
Microsoft Introduces Icebreaker to Address the Famous Ice-Start Challenges in Machine Learning (Jesus Rodriguez)
Microsoft Edge is Getting New PWA Features on Windows 10 (Paul Thurrott)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin: Efficiently Using a SQLite Database (Brandon Minnick)
You Should Be Building All Of Your Xamarin Apps with Syncfusion Controls (James Montemagno)
7 Ways to Boost Your Xamarin Development Productivity (Meikanda Nayanar I)
Visual Studio for Mac: “Error updating Xcode project” opening Storyboard in xCode (Damian Mehers)
Using appsettings.json in UWP (Martin Zikmund)
Example of using Xamarin Shell navigation with Prism (Herman)

Visual Studio & .NET

Building extendible hash leaf page–Part II (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio Extensions: 7 You Should Check Out (Carlos Schults)
Task Parallel Library 101 Using C# (Jin Vincent Necesario)
Logging in Entity Framework Core (Joydip Kanjilal)
Creating a Single EXE Application with .NET Core (Dimitar Karamfilov)
Properly Comparing Strings with Globalization and Performance in .NET (Bruno Capuano)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #7 – Keyboard Shortcuts (Graham Smith)
The process: How Twilio scaled its engineering structure (Ott Kaukver)
Back to Basics: Abstraction (Brian Pratt)
5 Ways To Give (Thoughtful) Thanks To Your Team (Janet Mesh)
Recommended Reading: non-code related books for people creating software. (Matt Lacey)
Tackling Testing Challenges in an Agile Transition (Hemanth Yamjala)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

A Bite-Sized Daily Digest for Crashes in Visual Studio App Center (Amanda Chew)
Creating Amazon Skills with .NET, Part 1: First, Getting the Basics Right (Hannes DuPreez)
Building Hacker News in Flutter (Mohammad Azam)
Achieving theater-quality anime with Unity (tamtam)
A year of bringing AI to the edge (Tina Coll)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Xamarin.Forms 101: Compiled Bindings (Maddy Leger)
Building an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Azure IoT updates at MSIgnite with Sam George | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
Azure Machine Learning Compute Instance | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 61 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Uno Platform to the extreme: Inside a web browser. (José Manuel Nieto Sánchez)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 336 | Power Platform Updates With Rob Windsor (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
STEM Everyday: #146 | Innovate. Educate. Celebrate. | feat. Janelle McLaughlin (Chris Woods)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Vitess, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Functional Geekery Episode 128 – Gene Kim (Steven Proctor)
RunAs Radio – Infrastructure as Code using Ansible with Josh Duffney (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 114 (Jason Bock)
Real Talk JS Bonus Episode: First Impressions of MacBook Pro 16 with Max Lynch (John Papa)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – Creating Multiple Savings Accounts to Reach Your Goals (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
SE-Radio Episode 390: Sam Procter on Security in Software Design (Justin Beyer)

Community & Events

Business and innovation tips for your Imagine Cup project (MS Student Developer Team)
TechBash 2019: The SocketLabs Takeaway (Matt Reibach)
Autonomous systems, aerial robotics and Game of Drones with Gurdeep Pall and Dr. Ashish Kapoor (Alyssa Hughes)
“I was 11 years old before I became an American citizen, so I could understand and respect what it meant.” (Candace Whitney-Morris)
13 Incredible Performing Arts Shows In Philadelphia This December (Christopher Munden)
Copying code from Stack Overflow? You might be spreading security vulnerabilities (Ryan Donovan)

Database

How to Use CrystalDiskMark 7 to Test Your SQL Server’s Storage (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Memory Grant Feedback (Pinal Dave)
How Serverless is Working in Azure SQL Database (Steve Jones)
Announcing general availability of Azure Database for MySQL reserved capacity (manishku)
When a SQL UPDATE Statement DELETES Rows (Bert Wagner)
New for Amazon Aurora – Use Machine Learning Directly From Your Databases (Danilo Poccia)
How the Auth0 Data Team Uses R and Python (Pablo Casas)

PowerShell, SharePoint & Teams

Teams Doesn’t Need Two PowerShell Modules (Tony Redmond)

Miscellaneous

How Do Self-Driving Cars Work and What Problems Remain? (Drew Page)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19033 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Turkey Tikka Masala (Patrick Patterson)
Microsoft has turned Outlook into a Progressive Web App (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2883 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-11-27 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2482 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Week of React – Redux hooks, the Next.js handbook, exploring caching in the browser & more (Andrés from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Quick Start Guide: Build web applications using Blazor, EF Core, and SQL Server (Ankit Sharma) – Referral Link

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