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Dew Drop – September 27, 2019 (#3040)

Posted on September 27, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – .NET Core 3 Launch with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Keynote Announced for TechBash 2019 (Jason Gaylord)
C# 8 Interfaces: “dynamic” and Default Implementation (Jeremy Clark)
Project Interview: Windows Community Toolkit with Michael Hawker (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

Web & Cloud Development

Announcing Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0 (Catherine Wang)
Three Ways to Implement Form Dropdowns in Angular Using Kendo UI (Christian Nwamba)
Bring your own LOLBin: Multi-stage, fileless Nodersok campaign delivers rare Node.js-based malware (Eric Avena)
Finite State Machines in React (Leigh Halliday)
Ignite UI for Angular 8.2.0 Release (Radoslav Mirchev)
Single Page Applications and ASP.NET Core 3.0 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Free ebook to concretely learn #WebAssembly (Marc Chambon)
Get Started with the ELK Stack (Jimena Garbarino)
Using Durable Entities and Orchestrators to Create an Api Cache (Aaron Powell)
Designing Your First Application in Kubernetes, Part 4: Configuration (Bill Mills)
Intro To APIs: What Are APIs Used For? (Kin Lane)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges – Unzone (Kym Phillpotts)
Introduction to Xamarin.Forms Shell (Matt Soucoup)
Building a Cross Platform MVVM Pattern with ReactiveUI and Xamarin.Forms (Suthahar J.)
SkiaSharp gradient overlay with inset control (Matt Crombie)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup (Brett Lopez)
C# Async Await, Simply (Henrick Tissink)
Lamar and Oakton join the .Net Core 3.0 Party (Jeremy D. Miller)
“Stubs” in the .NET Runtime (Matt Warren)
Introduction To Machine Learning And ML.NET (Deepak Kumar)
Detecting Profanity in Users Input (Stephen Haunts)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source (Dave McKinstry)
WIX vs Advanced Installer (Alex Marin)
5 Ways You Can Have More Meaningful Conversations At Work (Deanna deBara)
Critical Skills Developers Need to Avoid Getting Left Behind (Marco Coulter)
How to build a CI/CD pipeline in 20 minutes or less (Sara Kassabian)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 10.0 General Availability (Jon Douglas)
Text Input In React Native (Prashant Rewatkar)
Speed up mobile iteration with the new Device Simulator (JC Cimetiere)
View Binding: Performance (Mark Allison)
Migrating to MRTK2 – setting up and understanding Eye Tracking (Joost van Schaik)
Tabs and BottomNavigation – NativeScript’s Two New Components (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Tiny games with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console and Joseph White (zep) (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 382: Michael Chan on Learning ReactJS (Jeremy Jung)
How to switch an existing Azure SQL Database from Provisioned Compute to Serverless | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos (Mads Kristensen)
What’s New in Visual Studio for Mac 2019 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
App In The Cloud: Native mobile, desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML using the Uno Platform with Jérôme Laban (Daniel Hindrikes)
Windows Desktop: .NET Standup – Sept 26th 2019 – .NET Core for Desktop Apps Q&A (.NET Team)
Project Interview: Open Live Writer with Nick Vella (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
CppCast – Visual C++ Announcements at CppCon 2019 (Rob Irving)
PPP 267 | (Video) How Do You Reduce The Waste Around You? (Andy Kaufman)
Walking Down the Memory Lane with Bing Part 3 | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Rich Lander)
2 Frugal Dudes – How to Start a Business on a Budget (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Microsoft Teams community call-September 17, 2019 (Office Platform Ecosystem Team)
React Podcast 65: Jonathan Cutrell on The Future of Work — Part 1 (Michael Chan)

Community & Events

At the Grace Hopper Celebration, Learn Why Developers Love Docker (Kayla Pearson)
Highlights from .NET Conf 2019 (Bill Leach)
Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge (Janey Jack)
Research update: Improving the question-asking experience (Lisa Park)

Database

Azure Data Factory Filter Activity and Debugging Capabilities (Fikrat Azizov)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Rust 1.38.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2840 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-09-27 (Dan Rigby)
Roundup #55: .NET Core 3, F# 4.7, AWS joins .NET Foundation, .NET Foundation Maturity Model, Finding Service Boundaries (Derek Comartin)
Collective #552 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Driven React: Find Problems Early, Fix Them Quickly, Code with Confidence (Trevor Burnham)

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Dew Drop – September 18, 2019 (#3033)

Posted on September 18, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

How to test Observables (Kevin Kreuzer)
Xamarin Forms MediaElement now available on WPF (Peter Freeman Foot)
Chrome extension with Angular — from zero to a little hero (JeB Barabanov)
Visual Studio for Mac: Snippets | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Efficiently Validate Against Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks in ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
Angular and Node.js Technology Preview Released and Using TX Text Control with Node.js (Bjoern Meyer)
Your React App Is a Mess Before You Even Know It (Frank Zickert)
How to handle deeply-nested nullable fields in JavaScript and TypeScript (Nadeesha Cabral)
Microservices With Node.js: Scalable, Superior, And Secure Apps (SPEC INDIA)
REST Architecture – Part 2: Building the Client (Andrea Chiarelli)
Shifting Your Node Express APIs to Serverless (John Papa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Create Beautiful Mobile Apps in 20 Minutes with the New Xamarin UI Kit Webinar Q&A (Jacqueline Bieringer)
#XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the TintColor of ImageButton’s image – (new series) (Marco Siccardi)
Hashtags detection in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)
Markdown XAML – Markdown for WPF – render Markdown to a FlowDocument instead of HTML (Bevan Arps)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18980 available now! (Kevin Larkin)
Simple performance analytics with performance logger class (Matt Crombie)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using Roslyn to build object to object mapper (Gunnar Peipman)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #6 – Use the Manual Intervention Task to Pause a Stage of the Release Pipeline (Graham Smith)
The origin of Smoke Testing and the confusion it can cause (Aiko Klostermann)
Building a Pragmatic, Lightweight Code Review Checklist (Eric Boersma)
What is Software Architecture? (Ignaco Piantanida)
Dev at work: End-to-end test pipeline (Iris Classon)
Can ASMR ‘Tingles’ Really Make You More Productive? (Kristine Spure)
Bucket Sort – The Sorting Algorithm Family Reunion (Matthew Jones)
Smart Layout, a new Welcome Window and Projects on the Mac and Cloud— What’s new in Sketch? (Sketch Team)
Attacking Technical Debt (Steve Smith)
The main event: How event-driven architecture helps Discover move faster and win more card customers (Ying Zhe)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

#VSCode – How to install #docker in a #RaspberryPi 4 (Bruno Capuano)
New Dark Theme Available on Visual Studio App Center (Blanca Delgado Parra)
Raspberry Pi interactive wind chimes (Alex Bate)
Put your Action to the test: Tips to improve your action with testing (Aza Tulepbergenov)
SwiftUI and SwiftUI: Solid filled background. (Steve Tibbett)
Stream high-quality real-time graphics through your browser with our new WebRTC framework (Laetitia Santore)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Groundbreakers Podcast #370: Complexity Revisited: Software and Safety (Bob Rhubart)
Software Engineering Daily – Distributed Databases with Aly Cabral (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Progress by Habit, Perception by Exception (Jonathan Cutrell)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 320 | Discussing AC’s SharePoint Framework 2019 Summer Wish List (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Knowledge mining using the knowledge store feature of Azure Search | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
The SitePen Podcast Episode 45: Declaration – CSS, Music, Components (Valerie Kriss)
AiA 257: The Easiest Way to use Angular Elements with Tomas Trajan (Aaron Frost & Brian Love)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – containerd, with Derek McGowan (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Diving into Durable Entities | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Jeremy Likness)
RunAs Radio – Mobile Device Management in 2019 with Jeremy Moskowitz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)

Community & Events

Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding (Ben Popper)
Celebrate seven years of GitHub Education with new features and #MyFirstRepo (Eric Rosado)
Meet the NativeScript Team at jsMobileConf (Rob Lauer)
What makes an organization a Great Workplace for Women? (Sunidhi Chatterjee)

Database

How to Find Top N Largest Time Gaps in Date Ranges in SQL Server with T-SQL Code (Eli Leiba)
NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB – Available in Preview (Danilo Poccia)
SQL SERVER – Check for Update in SSMS (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database – Azure Portal Updates and Azure SQL Database Types (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

Updating Help for older versions of PowerShell (Sean Wheeler)

Miscellaneous

Oracle: Programming language Java 13 is out, it’ll make you more productive (Liam Tung)
Windows Admin Center Preview 1909 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2833 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-09-18 (Dan Rigby)
Professional Development – 9/09/2019 – 9/15/2019 (Cameron Presley)

The Geek Shelf

Learn React with TypeScript 3 (Carl Rippon)

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Dew Drop – May 11, 2018 (#2723)

Posted on May 11, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Building beautiful, flexible user interfaces with Flutter, Material Theming, and official Material… (Michael Thomsen)
The final compliance countdown: Are you ready for GDPR? (Microsoft Secure Blog Staff)
Save 45% on Developer Reference titles (Microsoft Press)
Talking Build with Build MCs (Christina Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

Facebook Does It So Shouldn’t I? Should You Use the Hamburger Menu/Icon For Mobile Navigation (Chris Love)
Azure Portal Tip: Check deployments of Azure resources from the Resource Group (Abhijit Jana)
Visual Studio Code VS Sublime for JavaScript & Frontend Development (Mathieu Dionne)
Playing with Pixels – Color Effect with HTML5 and JS (Humprey Cogay)
New book: Programming ASP.NET Core (Microsoft Press)
Aurelia Release Notes – Early May 2018 (Rob Eisenberg)
Fight Phish with Facebook (and Certificate Transparency) (Eric Lawrence)
Introducing Couchbase Managed Cloud (Rahul Pradhan)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Overview of the progress bar control in Xamarin.Forms (Satheesh Kumar T)
Xamarin Preview Release: Xcode 9.4 beta 2, iOS 11.4 Support – Preview 2 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

Modeling the Card Game War in C# Part 3 – Running the App (Matthew Jones)
Readonly structs, ref readonly and conditional ref expressions – C# 7.2 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together (Jb Evain)
Default literal expressions in C# 7.1 (Gunnar Peipman)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Improving Your Coding Problem Solving Skills (John Sonmez)
Elevate your telemetry from silo to valuable data source (Matteo Emili)
Shift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration (Matthew Mitrik)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build Advanced Alexa Skills: Confirm What Customers Want with Dialog Management (Justin Jeffress)
Launching 3D Game Kit: Explore and Learn Unity in 3D (Aurore Dimopoulos)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – How Windows uses VSTS with Jill Campbell & Ed Thompson (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Azure DevOps Project, is it Worth it? (Frank Boucher)
Azure Blob Storage for Mobile with Brandon Minnick | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 252 | SharePoint Development with Vesa Juvonen Live from Build (Andrew Connell, Chris Johnson)
What’s new in F# | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Kathy Hickman & Rich Lander)
Allscripts On Call: The Healthcare Podcast – Blockchain 101 (Corey Todaro)
The Future of .NET on the Desktop (Tim Heuer)
Hanselminutes – How do you become a CTO – with Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott (Scott Hanselman)
Vision Cognitive Services Updates | AI Show and What’s New with Language Understanding Service (LUIS) | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Build 2018 Videos for .NET Developers (Shahed C)
Software Engineering Daily – Cluster Schedulers with Ben Hindman (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Problem Solving Series #2: Reframing (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Be the Change You Want to See In the (Tech) World (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
Retrospective on my OSS Career (Jeremy D. Miller)
Massive Street-Food Fest Night Market Is Back For 2018 (Michael Butler)
Google I/O 2018 Summary – Day 2 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore on the future of Windows and connecting phones to PCs (Tom Warren)
From drones to smart plants: Guada Casuso lets ideas take flight by cultivating her obsessions (Toyinaminia ‘Toy’ Norwood)
Windows Developer Awards: And the 2018 winners are… (Windows Apps Team)

Database

Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server Training, Volume 1 (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Error: Could not Load File or Assembly Microsoft. SqlServer. management. sdk. sfc Version 12.0.0.0 (Pinal Dave)
Using Advanced Publish Settings for Visual Studio Database Project (Nai Biao Zhou)
RavenDB 4.1 Features: Counting my counters (Oren Eini)
Converting a Database to In-Memory OLTP (Darko Martinović)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 Fluent Design makeover: Microsoft reveals what’s coming next (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2582 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2095 (Mike Gunderloy)
Roundup #3 – VS Live Share, ML.NET, Desktop .NET Core, EF6.3 on .NETCore3, Hyper-V Android Emulator (Derek Comartin)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #414 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Amazon Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Alexa Voice Remote – Streaming Media Player

ASIN: B01N32NCPM

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