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Dew Drop – December 12, 2018 (#2858)

Posted on December 12, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

A Year of Q# (Mariia Mykhailova)
New Benefits in Visual Studio Subscriptions (Lan Kaim)
Visual Studio App Center’s GitHub App: The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer (Nilofer Rajpurkar)
Redesigned Search Everywhere, Plugins, Templates and more in Rider 2018.3 EAP (Chris Woodruff)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating a Side Menu for ASP.NET Core using a View Component (Chris A. Johnson)
Zero Config JavaScript App Prototyping with ParcelJS (Dan Arias)
AWS Lambda Layers and Runtime API: beyond JavaScript (Dylan Schiemann)
Razor Components for a JavaScript-Free FrontEnd in 2019 (Ed Charbeneau)
KendoReact: What Can It Do for You? (Eric Bishard)
Azure Monitor for containers now generally available (Keiko Harada)
Alternative approach to HttpClient in Azure Functions 2.0 – bringing in HttpClientFactory (Tomasz Pęczek)
Improved UX with Ghost Elements + Angular Animations (Thomas Burleson)
Angular Smart 404 Page (Vitaliy Bobrov)
Chrome Dev Tools – More Advanced Tips for Better Debugging (Dirk Strauss)
REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter (Eric Goebelbecker)
Modernizing the Web Playback UI (Corey Grunewald & Matt Jaquish)
Steal My Blog Design (Phil Haack)
Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects (Ria Bhatia & Lachlan Evenson)
A hybrid approach to Kubernetes (Ricardo Mendes)
Prototypes and production (Robin Rendle)
Postman Supports OpenAPI 3.0 (Stacee)
Analyzing 404s with Google Analytics (Steve Smith)
Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services (Tom Krazit)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio IntelliSense Not Working? What To Do. (Carlos Schults)
F# Fantasy Football (Dave Lowe)
Installing Visual Studio 2019 (Joseph Reynolds)
.NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
Why is string.GetHashCode() different each time I run my program in .NET Core? (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Writing xUnit Tests in .NET Core (Peter Vogel)
Hidden Business Rules in Legacy Code (Dave Nicolette)
Help Managers Visualize Their Problems (Johanna Rothman)
Why don’t we nurture our DevOps teams as professional sports teams do? (Willy-Peter Schaub)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Effective foreground services on Android (Keith Smyth)
2 New Ways to Enhance Alexa Skill Accuracy and Deliver More Natural Customer Engagements (Drew Meyer)
Tweetstorm: Ionic is Web Native and Why That Matters (Max Lynch)
ARCore and Unity: A look at 2018 and the road ahead (Dustin Burg)
BLoC Architecture — Why so important? (Fellipe Malta)
Splitting widgets to methods is a performance antipattern (Iiro Krankka)
Internationalization — Localizing your Action (Jessica Dene Earley-Cha)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2019 with Brent Ozar (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Azure IoT TypeEdge : a strongly-typed development experience for Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Python on Azure: Part 1—Building Django apps with Visual Studio Code | Azure Friday (Rob Caron & Nina Zakharenko)
Building Web APIs Part 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Kubernetes Podcast – Envoy, with Matt Klein (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 282 | Microsoft Connect(), Microsoft Flow Licensing Changes & Microsoft Ditches Edge (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node #10: Adding LUIS to Your Chatbot (Michael Szul)
Real Talk JS Episode 11: Web Accessibility with Jen Luker (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
Meta Cast Episode 139 – The Dynamics of New Teams (Josh Anderson)
React Podcast 32 – Steal the Platform with Vincent Riemer (Michael Chan)
Talk Python to Me #190 – Teaching Django (Michael Kennedy)
Machine Learning on Code | The Open Source Show (Rob Caron, Lacey Butler & Allison Cordle)
SSW TV – How to be a good Manager or Boss and lead your team to success (Sophie Belle)

Community & Events

And Now a Word from Our AWS Heroes… (Jeff Barr)
Winter Bash 2018 (Juan M.)
Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Karen Chu)
Announcing the Female Founders Competition winners (Peggy Johnson)
Friends of Redgate 101 (Roseanna Whitelegg)

Database

Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases (Alejandro Cobar)
SQL Server I/O (Arun Sirpal)
Detect and Diagnose SQL Server Performance Issues with Spotlight Cloud (Pinal Dave)
Create custom T-SQL code snippets with Azure Data Studio (Eduardo Pivaral)

SharePoint

It’s time for reminders in SharePoint (Chris McNulty)

PowerShell

Announcing New REST based Service Fabric PowerShell Module (Service Fabric Team)

Miscellaneous

Rust 2019: Think Bigger (Nick Fitzgerald)
Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH (Danny Maertens)
Organisation-wide teams in Microsoft Teams: what and how (Loryan Strant)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #2234 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
Today in Tech – Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks: Native Apps, Multiple Platforms (Pragmatic Programmer) (Tony Hillerson)

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Dew Drop – July 18, 2018 (#2768)

Posted on July 18, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
Initial Blazor support in ReSharper and Rider 2018.2 EAP (Matthias Koch)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17713 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
Code refactoring support in Visual Studio 2017 | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Kasey Uhlenhuth)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Monitor Azure Data Factory Pipeline? (Abhijit Jana)
Intelligent Healthcare with Azure Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) technology (Alice Kupcik)
Render Children in React Using Fragment or Array Components (Kingsley Silas)
PhpStorm 2018.2 Public Preview (Maxim Kolmakov)
Configuring Kestrel in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Paul Ballard)
Reacting to React.js (Puyan Wei)
Dockerizing React Applications for Continuous Integration (Taylor Jones)
Should I try to use the IE version of Grid Layout? Revisited for 2018 (Rachel Andrew)
Horizontal scrolling website examples to use as inspiration (Bogdan Sandu)
New web app tutorials in the VS and VS Code Python docs, and docs feedback (Dan Taylor)
Blockchain as a tool for anti-fraud (David Houlding)
Playing with Cards in Bootstrap 4 (Dino Esposito)
Building a Movie Listing Application with Aurelia and TypeScript (Steve Hobbs)
Machine Learning for fair decisions (Emily Maryatt)
Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach (Rajesh Ramamurthy)
Proxying traffic to Report URI with Cloudflare Workers (Scott Helme)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms: Official Bottom Navigation/Bottom Tabs on Android (James Montemagno)

Miscellaneous .NET

Breaking change expected in Visual Studio 2017 Update 8 (Gael Fraiteur)
SQLite in C# – Video and Resources (Tim Corey)
Localization Testing Made Simple with In-Memory StringLocalizer (Hisham Bin Ateya)
How To Resolve Microsoft.Net.Native.Runtime .2.1-rel not found (Damien Doumer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Kubernetes anti-patterns: Let’s do GitOps, not CIOps! (Ilya Dmitrichenko)
How to Successfully Deliver IT Projects in a Not-so-Agile Organization (Mohammad Rizvi)
I want to move my project from TFVC on TFS to Git on VSTS, without command-line tools. Can I do it? (Matteo Emili)
VSTS: Dashboard Updates in Public Preview (Francisco Garcia-Ascanio)
To Compete With a Work Martyr, Don’t Play the Game (Kim Scott)
Creating a UI Style Guide for Better UX (Micah Bowers)
Octopus July Release 2018.7 (Rob Pearson)
Software Architecture Document? You Don’t Need That (Phil Vuollet)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Things Every Alexa Skill Should Do: Handle the Unexpected Gracefully (Jeff Blankenburg)
Sending text messages from your iOS app in Swift using MFMessageComposeViewController (Sam Agnew)
How to Create a Self-Test Room and Evaluate Your Alexa Voice Service Integration (Dave Berol)
Protecting your users with certificate pinning (Bas De Cort)
Cinemachine for 2D: Tips and Tricks (Ethan Bruins)
Include Feature-Rich Maps in a NativeScript-Vue App with Mapbox (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 263 | What’s making news with Azure and Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Azure Key Vault Tooling with Andrew Cheung and Paul Yuknewicz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Azure Cloud Shell editor | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Agile Uprising Podcast: Zombie Agile with Prof. Dave Snowden (Brad Stokes)
AiA 198: Building SharePoint Extensions with JavaScript with Vesa Juvonen LIVE at Microsoft Build (Charles Max Wood)
Getting Started with Cloud Native Infrastructure | The Open Source Show (Allison Cordle)
Interview with Olivia Nelson – Queen of Marketing Nerds | GALs (Golnaz Babazadeh & Cameron Tomisser)
A Perspective on Industrial IoT Security by TrendMicro | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
SE-Radio Episode 330: Natalie Silvanovich on Attack Surface Reduction (Kim Carter)
Software Engineering Daily – Build a Bank: N26 with Pat Kua (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Problem Chains (Jonathan Cutrell)
TalkScript Episode 10: Get Crackin’ With Flow (Torrey Rice)

Community & Events

Are you coming to Chocolatey Fest? (Gary Ewan Park)
Mozilla Partners with Women Who Tech to Offer Startup Challenge Europe Award for Privacy, Transparency & Accountability (Mitchell Baker)

Database

SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Perform Stripped Backup using Shared Access Signature (SAS) (Pinal Dave)
Open source tools for SQL Server on Linux (Shayne Boyer)
The Pros and Cons of Using T-SQL Soft Transactions (Tim Smith)

MS Teams

Deliver Rich Live Events for Corporate Training Using Teams – Modern Workplace Tips (Mike Gannotti)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17713 and Announcing Windows Admin Center Preview 1807 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2624 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2138 (Mike Gunderloy)
Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-18 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia: Develop modern and real-time web apps with Aurelia and Node.js: Diego Jose Arguelles Rojas, Erikson Haziz Murrugarra Sifuentes: 9781788833202: Books

ISBN: 1788833201
ISBN-13: 9781788833202

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Dew Drop – July 11, 2018 (#2763)

Posted on July 11, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17709 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
Adding search to Blazor applications (Gunnar Peipman)
Integrated spell checking with ReSpeller in ReSharper and Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console (Rich Turner)

Web & Cloud Development

Timezone In Date .toTimeString() Is Not Always An Abbreviation In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Azure Tips and Tricks – The Complete List Sorted by Azure Services (Michael Crump)
Create VSTS Work Items or GitHub Issues for Application Insights from Azure Portal (Abhijit Jana)
Bootstrap 4 Carousel Responsive jQuery Plugin (jQuery Rain)
Adding validation to strongly typed configuration objects in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
General availability of user behavior analytics tools in Azure Application Insights (David Stephens)
Simplifying Different Types of Providers in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
Overriding externally set headers and HTTP status codes in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)
Delivering WordPress in 7KB (Jack Lenox)
Getting Started with Angular Elements (Sam Julien)
Building a Real Time Data Pipeline in Azure – Part 1 (Jason Farrell)
Using OpenAPI And JSON PATCH To Articulate Changes For Your API Road Map and Long Running API Requests And Differential API Responses (Kin Lane)
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar (Alexandra Noonan)
7 best practices for building containers (Théo Chamley)
LEAD Technologies Releases LEADTOOLS Cloud Services (Greg Ross)
Postman’s API Monitoring is now available in ‘Fun Size’ Blocks (Nikita)
20 Best Bootstrap 4 Plugins (Nona Blackman)
Announcing important changes to TaskRouter (Tyler Cole)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How To Get A Device Owner’s Current User Name With Xamarin Forms (Damien Doumer)
UIModalPresentationStyle.FormSheet in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
#WinML – How to convert Tiny-YoloV3 model in CoreML format to Onnx and use it in a #Windows10 App (Bruno Capuano)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Dictionary: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls (Rick Beley)
.NET Framework 4.7.2 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog (Vivek Mishra)
What’s New in .NET Core 2.1 (Ricardo Peres)
.NET Core July 2018 Update (Rich Lander)

Design, Methodology & Testing

3 Design Patterns That Have Aged Poorly (Carlos Schults)
Why Software Developers Suck at Estimating Time (And How to Fix It) (Maddy Osman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How creating an Action can complement your Android app (Neto Marin)
Core Graphics, Part 3: Lines (Mark Dalrymple)
Out of Depth with Flutter (Mikkel Ravn)
The Road from Hybrid Back to Native is a Sweet One (Rob Lauer)
Unity 2018.2 is now available (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 262 | Office 365, Azure and VSTS News + Moving Hyperfish to AKS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
ASP.NET Monsters #116: Blazor (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
Azure SignalR Service (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Dart Advanced: LINQ | Functional Collections | Operators (MTechViral)
Allscripts On-Call Podcast – Empowering Patients Through Tech (Jen Bolduc)
The Windows Community Toolkit | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Nikola Metulev)
Interview with Paige Bailey, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate | GALs (Christina Warren & Paige Bailey)
Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Living on the IoT Edge (Ed Charbeneau)
RunAs Radio – Talking Containers with Jessica Deen (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Connecting Legacy Systems to Modern IoT Apps | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Software Engineering Daily – Flutter in Practice with Randal Schwartz (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – A Bug Story – How Narrative Bias Creates Blind Spots (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Philly Azure August Meetup (Tim Ferro)
Welcome Wagon: Classifying Comments on Stack Overflow (Julia Silge & Jason Punyon)
AWS re:Invent 2018 is Coming – Are You Ready? (Jeff Barr)
I have a new job, and Jewelbots is great (Sara Chipps)

Database

Demonstrate a SQL Server Architecture with Legos (Graham Okely)
Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Class Preparation and Setup (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview Build 17709 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-07-11 (Dan Rigby)
Azure Weekly: July 10, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches (9781617295096): Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks: Books

ISBN: 1617295094
ISBN-13: 9781617295096

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