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Dew Drop – April 16, 2020 (#3177)

Top Links

Announcing Uno Platform support for Visual Studio Code (Uno Platform)
Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful (Stephen Wolfram)
Announcing CodePen support for Flutter (Zoey Fan)
The 2020 Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts, Presentations, and Remote Meetings (Scott Hanselman)
Creating a ReadOnlySequence from Array Data (Steve Gordon)
npm has joined GitHub (Jeremy Epling)

Web & Cloud Development

How to deal with ‘HTTP Error 500.30 – ANCM In-Process Start Failure’ error in ASP.NET Core (Ruslan Albu)
Best Practices With React Hooks (Adeneye David Abiodun)
Building a Food Store with Kendo UI and jQuery (Christian Nwamba)
Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Topologies (Daniel Marbach)
Making an Interactive Cognitive Portrait Exhibit using some Creativity, .NET, Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Magic (Dmitry Soshnikov)
Microsoft PWABuilder – Sign-in with Microsoft, Google, or Facebook (PWABuilder Team)
Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS (Eric Meyer)
Creating CommonJS-based npm packages via TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Monitoring Kubernetes Workloads: The Sidecar Pattern (Kubernetes Team)
How to Convert SVGs to PNGs (Daniel Feldroy)
Speed Up Your Angular App – 14 Angular Optimization Tips (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
Auto Effect Pattern with Redux and React Hooks (Pei Wang)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Using LiteDB as a local NoSQL database in UWP (Diederik Krols)
Pluralsight Courses for .NET Windows Developers (Thomas Claudius Huber)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Online Tweak Aids Remote Development Surge (David Ramel)
How to run Visual Studio Code on Mac OSX (Kevin Griffin)
Microsoft: Try VS Code’s new Python, C++ programming language tutorials, Docker updates (Liam Tung)
Using FluentAssertions with xUnit Theory to Test for an Exception AND a Successful Return (Charles Flatt)
Pretty Method Display in xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
Introducing Heartbeats (Thomas Ardal)
A Framework to DotNet Core Conversion Report (Mike Hadlow)
Are Boolean Flags on Methods a Code Smell? (Steve Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Software Packaging Best Practices (Alex Marin)
When to Mock (Vladimir Khorikov)
Inclusive Design vs Accessible Design (with Infographic) (Cameron Chapman)
Product Teams at Toptal: Strategies for Remote Success (Egle Merkyte)
Securing AI and ML projects: Data and cyber risk management (Ninad Doshi)
MSIX Packaging Tool April 2020 release is now available! (Sharla Akers)
Reach for the Top: How Spotify built Shortcuts in Just Six Months (Spotify Engineering)
How To Find Popular Trello Templates—Including Remote Work (Jessica Webb)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi puts the heart back in mid-noughties nostalgia tech (Ashley Whittaker)
Playing with Paths in Flutter (Divyanshu Bhargava)
eXtending reality with AR and VR – Part I and Part II (Kuldeep Singh)
Introducing the Range Selector Widget in Flutter (Mohamed Samsudeen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hello World Podcast: Episode 92 (Shawn Wildermuth)
The Uptake Podcast: Episode 5, The Sketchnote Challenge (Anna Chu)
.NET Rocks! – CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Software Engineering Daily – Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar and Software Engineering Daily – NGINX Service Mesh with Alan Murphy (Jeff Meyerson)
Weekly Dev Tips – Adapter Design Pattern (Steve Smith)
Similarity and Scoring in Azure Cognitive Search | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
ID10T Podcast – Michael Shannon Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – New Standards for New Information – Healthcare Data Compliance with Michael Kirwan, CEO/CTO dSheet LLC (Allscripts Healthcare)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 197: Power Query in Power BI (Amanda Halverson)
PPP 286 | The Power of Character Strengths for Leading Teams and Projects, with Ruth Pearce (Andy Kaufman)
Complete Developer Podcast – You Are The Problem (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The CSS Podcast 006: Color Part 1 – Usage (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – Building a Kid’s Survival Kit for Isolation (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)

Community & Events

[The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Luise Freese (Luise Freese)
[The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Rebecca Jackson (Rebecca Jackson)
AWS Online Tech Talks for April 2020 (Jimmy Cooper)
Live Webinar: 42 WebStorm Tips and Tricks (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
A healthy society requires a healthy planet (Brad Smith)
Inclusion matters: [Part 1] Diversity matters (Lina Zubyte)
Announcing the Community Response award – a new Partner of the Year Awards category (Tracey Pretorius)

Database

SQL SERVER – Multiple Miscellaneous Option – Bugs Fixed by SSMS Team (Pinal Dave)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 1.1.2 (David-Engel)

Miscellaneous

Pentagon’s inspector general says Microsoft’s JEDI cloud win should stand (Mary Jo Foley)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19608 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Artificial Intelligence Topics (ContentLab IO)
Download the Student Developer coloring book! (MS Student Developer Team)
Security guidance for remote desktop adoption (Todd VanderArk)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2974 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-04-16 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Angular Development with TypeScript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – October 29, 2019 (#3060)

Top Links

Survey: Data Binding to data in Windows Desktop Apps (Dmitry Lyalin)
Angular & ASP.NET Core 3.0 – Deep Dive (Evgueni Tsygankov)
October Updates for Visual Studio App Center’s Windows Support (Winnie Li)
Dark Mode and MarkupExtensions now available in Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating An Interactive JSON Explorer Using CSS Grid In Angular 9.0.0-next.14 (Ben Nadel)
Popout Windows in React (Andy Aiken)
Rain or shine: Azure Maps Weather Services will bring insights to your enterprise (Chris Pendleton)
Getting Started with AutoMapper in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
Choosing the Node.js versions for your CI tests (hint: use LTS) (Dominykas Blyžė)
React Hooks (Conceptual Understanding) — Part 1 (Rajesh Pillai)
New learning resources for building ASP.NET Core apps using Visual Studio for Mac (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
Upgrading from Gulp 3 to 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
How to Authorize Users in Blazor Declaratively (Peter Vogel)
Strongly-typed destructuring and rest parameters (Carl Rippon)
An In-depth Look at Routing in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
Addressing some misconceptions about our plans for improving the security of DNS (Kenji Baheux)
Secure Your SPA with Authorization Code Flow with PKCE (Jason Robert)
Auditing For Accessibility Problems With Firefox Developer Tools (Marco Zehe)
Creating a Random Post Link with the Ghost SDK and Content API (Matthew Jones)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Three Ways To Write Xamarin Apps In F# (Thomas Bandt)
Enrich Your WPF Apps with the New SyntaxEditor Control (Petar Mladenov)
What’s New in 2019 Volume 3: PDF Viewer Xamarin.Forms (Ramkumar Ravy)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to write to a file with C# in 2019 – StackOverflow doesn’t get it right (Thomas Ardal)
Learning xUnit .NET Unit Testing the Easy Way (Jason Roberts)
X18 Outlook: Creating and Completing Forms with TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
Working with JSON in .NET Core 3 (Changhui Xu)
Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features (Jianye Lu)
Implementing .NET Core Health Checks (Sai Kumar Koona)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q4 (Gloridel Morales)
Azure DevOps – Docker Release Pipeline (Jeffrey Chilberto)
Observer Pattern: How does it work? (Vinay Joglekar)
DDD and bulk operations (Vladimir Khorikov)
Quality and Agility linked by Processes (Bruno Capuano)
Improve Tester-Developer Relationships with Helpful Feedback (Michael Stahl)
Be Humble and Kind (Steve Smith)
Avoiding Merge Regressions (Mark Heath)
Your Culture Dictates What you Can Improve (George Stocker)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build Gadgets, Games, and Smart Toys with the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit – Now Available Everywhere (Lisa Mohanty)
Azure IoT Central: Democratizing IoT for all solution builders (Bert Van Hoof)
Designing Skills for In-Skill Purchasing, Part 4: Handle Transactions & Transitions (Alison Atwell)
Actions on Google Console Analytics Updates (Mandy Chan)
Unlocking opportunities in the next frontier of IoT (Sam George)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Scott Moves to iPhone (Wes Bos)
Stack Overflow Podcast #126 – The Pros and Cons of Programming with ADHD (Ben Popper)
CodeNewbie S10:E6 – How can we make the future of programming more inclusive? (Tim O’Reilly) (CodeNewbie Team)
Weekly Dev Tips – Versioning with guest Jon Skeet (Steve Smith)
2019-10-21 (VOD) Reviewing Not a Dog Workshop Asp Net Core and Azure AI (Frank Boucher)
ASP.NET Monsters #136: Introduction to ML.NET (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 115 – Clean Agile with Uncle Bob (John Callaway)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Talking bots and the Microsoft Virtual Assistant with Darren Jefford (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Introducing SQL Server 2019 | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
.NET Bytes Episode 10: News from October 10, 2019 through October 23rd, 2019 (Calvin A. Allen & Matthew D. Groves)
Real Talk JS Episode 56: Launching a Successful Web App with Dan Muller (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
The Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: An Introduction | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
AiA 262: Firebase Features with David East (Aaron Frost, Brian Love, Alyssa Nicoll & Shai Reznik)

Community & Events

[Microsoft Ignite 2019] Empowering everyone with technology—including people with disabilities (Ali Oberg)
Research update: Coding on the Weekends (Julia Silge)

Database

Introducing the SQL Server 2019 video learning series (Bob Ward)
Oracle to SQL Server and SQL Server to Oracle Migration Guide – Pt. 2 (Leonid Draginsky)

PowerShell

#PowershellBasics: The GetType() and GetTypeCode() methods (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what we can do about it. (Bill Gates)
Perl Unicode Forensics (Nikos Vaggalis)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2862 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-29 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2461 (Mike Gunderloy)
XamarinBites 24 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Collective #561 (Pedro Botelho)
Build5Nines Weekly: October 28, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
Professional Development – 10/21/2019 – 10/27/2019 (Cameron Presley)

The Geek Shelf

React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL (Azat Mardan) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – July 8, 2019 (#2994)

Top Links

Using data from SQL Server and/or Web API in UWP apps – Feedback wanted (Matt Lacey)
Implementing State Management In Blazor (Michael Washington)
Introducing the new App Installer template in Visual Studio 2019 (Matteo Pagani)
Technology & Friends – Jon Galloway on the .NET Foundation (David Giard)

Web & Cloud Development

Wrapping Immutable Arrays In Mutable Arrays For Easier Processing In Angular 8.2.0-next.0 (Ben Nadel)
How do JavaScript’s global variables really work? (Axel Rauschmayer)
Reducing the forms boilerplate — make your Angular forms reusable (Eliran Eliassy)
ASP.NET CORE Authentication and Authorization using JWT (No Cookies) – Part 1 (Joseph Rozario)
ngx-bootstrap: Angular Ivy is here (Ludmila Nesvitiy)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 205 – Query Azure Storage analytics logs in Azure Log Analytics (Michael Crump)
Real World Cloud Migrations: Moving a 17 year old series of sites from bare metal to Azure (Scott Hanselman)
Changing Nested State in Vuex (Shawn Wildermuth)
Angular vs React vs Vue: Which is the Best Choice for 2019? (Sophia Martin)
Predicting Diabetes using Logistic Regression with TensorFlow.js (Venelin Valkov)
React Form Validation using React Hooks. (Vince Llauderes)
Deploying v2 Azure Functions with Terraform (Jason Farrell)
Hunting errors in serverless applications (Marcia Villalba)
Creating DEV’s offline page using Blazor (Aaron Powell)
TensorFlow 2.0 — Here Is What I’ve Learned From A.I. Day At Google (Admond Lee)
Vue 3.0 Discards Class-Based API for Reusable, Composable Function-Based Approach (Bruno Couriol)
Thank u, Nuxt (Burke Holland)
Developing Web Applications in .NET (Different Approaches and Current State) (Damir Arh)
Challenges with Federated Identity in modern browsers (Eric Lawrence)
Progressive Web Apps in Chrome (j2inet)
Web Components in 2019: Part 3 and Web Components in 2019: Part 4 (John Tucker)
Automatically validate arguments in GraphQL (Nigel Sampson)
Want to learn Bootstrap 4? Here’s our free 10-part course. (Per Harald Borgen)
Automating WebPageTest using the nodejs webpagetest-api package (Robin Osborne)
Deep Q-Learning with Python and TensorFlow 2.0 (Nikola Živković)
Why a Cloud Native Application Platform (Steve George)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

A (r)evolution for displaying data: Xamarin.Forms CollectionView (Luis Beltran)
Creating custom Xamarin.Forms loading indicator with animations (Mikolaj Kieres)
Get Started with Xamarin.Forms DataTemplateSelector (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
How to Make Working with PDFs in a Xamarin Application Easy (Tanya Dimitrova)
Cross-platform imaging with Xamarin.Forms and SkiaSharp (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

Optimizing Multi-Targeting with Visual Studio Solution Filters (Nick Randolph)
System Testing ASP.NET Core APIs using XUnit (Damien Bowden)
Document Permissions and Password Encryption (Bjoern Meyer)
I set the OFN_NONETWORKBUTTON option in the OPENFILENAME structure, but it has no effect on the network item in the navigation pane (Raymond Chen)
C# Design Patterns: The Factory Pattern (Morgan Kenyon)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Machine Learning DevOps (MLOps) with Azure ML (Lee Stott)
How to Automate Common Jira Tasks with Go Jira Custom Commands (K. Matt Dupree)
Jenkins Pipeline Stage Result Visualization Improvements (Devin Nusbaum)
Small Teams May Not Fix The Mess (John Cutler)
Scraping and Exploring the Entire English Audible Catalog (Toby Manders)
How to Effectively Lead Remote IT teams (Todor Gigilev)
What to consider with an open source business model (Valerie Silverthorne)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Getting Started with Android Canvas Drawing (Rebecca Franks)
React Native vs. Ionic vs. Flutter: Comparison of Top Cross-Platform App Development Tools (Spec India Team)
In App notifications in Flutter (Dane Mackier)
How to track screen transitions in Flutter with RouteObserver (David Anaya)
Creating Scroll Animations in Flutter (Kenneth Reilly)
Resources to learn Flutter (Lara Martín)
Should I Add Generated Dart Files to Git? (Miguel Beltran)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S9:E0 – Season 9 trailer (Jeffrey Liebert, Ali Spittel, Mina Markham, Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt) (CodeNewbie Team)
Software Engineering Daily – Edge Storage with Steve Klabnik (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 157: FOMO UI Design (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – Part 2: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson (Jonathan Cutrell)
Serverless Chats Episode #3: Serverless GraphQL using AWS AppSync with Marcia Villalba and Serverless Chats Episode #4: Serverless Development Workflows with Chase Douglas (Jeremy Daly)
Coding Blocks Podcast – The Pragmatic Programmer – Know Thy Tools (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Developer on Fire Episode 431 | Jeremy Fairbank – Teaching Matters (Dave Rael)
AGL 110: Start With Your People – Brian Dixon (John Rouda)
Talk Python to Me #219 – Take a Python tour of duty at the United States Digital Service (Michael Kennedy)
Will Microsoft contribute back to the Chromium project? | One Dev Question and Does this mean that Edge is now Chrome? | One Dev Question (Chris Heilmann)
How can others contribute to Windows open source efforts? | One Dev Question (Mark Alcazar)
Some good advice about UI design? | One Dev Question (Laura Butler)
Hanselminutes – Real World Cloud Migrations: CDNs are an easy improvement to legacy apps (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 53: Tim Neutkens (Michael Chan)
Azure Podcast Episode 286 – Secured Workstations (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

PSA: Linking to a Code of Conduct Template is Not the Same as Having a Code of Conduct (Chris Coyier)

Database

Simple SQL Server T-SQL Development Best Practices for Beginners – Part 2 (Eduardo Pivaral)
SQL vs NoSQL — What is better for you? (Sayan Mondal)

Miscellaneous

Must-haves on your macOS setup (Den Delimarsky)
The Windows 10 misinformation machine fires up again (Ed Bott)
Mozilla readies launch of news subscription service (Brian Heater)
Python Basics — Data Structures (Vipul Jain)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2782 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2381 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: A discussion on SQL Server, the Azure Security Architect Map, and more! (MVP Award Program)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #266 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #27, 2019 – Femto, |> in Babel and Fabulous by Don (Sergey Tihon)
Reading List 233 (Bruce Lawson)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.07.05 (Sasha Rosenbaum)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter in Action (Eric Windmill)

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