Day: July 13, 2020

Top Links

• Windows Template Studio 3.7 now supports WPF projects! (Clint Rutkas)
• V-Drum Explorer: Blazor and the Web MIDI API (Jon Skeet)
• Improving the authentication experience for enterprises leveraging Conditional Access policies (Ruben Rios)
• Technology & Friends – Kayla Cinnamon on Windows Terminal (David Giard)

Web & Cloud Development

• Quickly Build Node.js Apps with Sails.js (Nickolas Fisher)
• How to build a Quiz app using React and TypeScript (Beau Carnes)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 270 – Getting Started with the Azure Quickstart Center (Michael Crump)
• GraphQL on Azure: Part 1 – Getting Started (Aaron Powell)
• How To Create A Custom React Hook To Fetch And Cache Data (Ademola Adegbuyi)
• Amend to previous – Jwt token mapping (Jason Farrell)
• Building Swift Serverless REST API with AWS Lambda & DynamoDB (Alfian Losari)
• Angular: Typical Workflow with an ASP.NET Backend (Bjoern Meyer)
• Securing Azure Function Settings with Azure Key Vault (Joseph Guadagno)
• Are you a web dev? FFS: update your libraries! (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Introduction to hand detection in the browser with Handtrack.js and TensorFlow (Krissanawat Kaewsanmuang)
• Bootstrap Vs. Material UI For React Based Project (Lucas)
• Basic Overview of Hoisting in JavaScript (Michael Tong)
• Series: ASP.NET Core Security and ASP.NET Core Identity – Getting Started and ASP.NET Core Identity Claims based Authorization (Sanjay Modi)
• Fluffy Animal Detector: Recognizing Custom Objects in the Browser by Transfer Learning in TensorFlow.js (Raphael Mun)
• ReactiveUI On The Web with Blazor (Rich Bryant)
• Handling SPA Fallback Paths in a Generic ASP.NET Core Server (Rick Strahl)
• How to Quickly Learn APIs (Jamie Maguire)
• We need more inclusive web performance metrics (Robin Rendle)
• How are FHIR-Based APIs changing healthcare? A HIMSS New York State Panel Discussion (Sam Brown)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Creating a login flow with Xamarin Forms Shell (Mark Allibone)
• Building a High-Performant ERP Application with Xamarin.Forms, MvvmCross & Telerik UI for Xamarin (Atanas Popatanasov)
• Xamarin Forms Progress Ring with Counter (Samir GC)
• Liquid Swipe (Ratish Philip)
• PancakeView goes v2.0! Here’s what’s new. (Steven Thewissen)
• Using Xamarin University resources to learn mobile development (The First Prototype)
• Improving CollectionView Scrolling (Brandon Minnick)

Visual Studio & .NET

• ‍♂️Tips To Write Clean C# Code (Jay Krishna Reddy)
• Cancelling a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation, part 8: C++/WinRT, revised (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 3.1 Gotchas (Paul Michaels)
• A .NET Color Console Helper (Rick Strahl)
• Using the Management API with .NET Core 3.1 (Jason Farrell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure Boards Summer Update (Dan Hellem)
• GitHub Integration with Azure DevOps (Subodh Sohoni)
• Sometimes It’s Easier to Mock Without Moq (Scott Hannen)
• Managing the Uncertainty of Legacy Code: Part 4 (J. B. Rainsberger)
• Broken Windows – Right Idea, Bad Analogy (Charlie Kindel)
• Make legacy applications first-class citizens of event-driven architectures via cloud, DevOps and CDC (Enrico Piccinin)
• How to capitalize on GitLab Security tools with external CI (Fernando Diaz)
• Remote work: Sales and Support on being customer-centric while working remotely (Laura Heisman)
• Appflow: not just another CI/CD Service (Max Lynch)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 11 Weeks of Android: Android 11 Compatibility (Dirk Dougherty)
• Executing commands in the Terminal from Swift (Jeroen Vannevel)
• What is Equatable package in Dart and Flutter (Jehad Nasser)
• Building smart garden ornaments with a Raspberry Pi and micro:bits (Jim Bennett)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Announcing the Last Week in .NET Newsletter and Podcast (George Stocker)
• Revision Path – Ayodele Odubela (Maurice Cherry)
• Flutter Reactive State Management With MOBX | Flutter Stream Day Season 1 (MTechViral)
• Merge Conflict 210: I Should Buy a Mac Mini Every Summer (James Montemagno)
• One Ops Question: What is Azure Sentinel? (Pierre Roman)
• Azure Podcast Episode 337 – Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website (Sujit D’Mello)
• .NET Core Podcast – Integrating with External APIs with Alexey Golub (Jamie Taylor)
• Ladybug Podcast – Systems Design (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
• The Changelog – What’s next for José Valim and Elixir? (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #500 – Two and a Half Orders of Magnitude (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• How to manage the Power Platform at enterprise scale AND help solve REAL problems with Alan Chai | #LessCodeMorePower (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Serverless Chats Episode #57: Building Serverless Applications using Webiny with Sven Al Hamad (Jeremy Daly)
• Introduction to the Developer’s Intro to Data Science Video Series (1 of 28) | Dev Intro to Data Science (Kaitlin McKinnon)
• How to stop worrying and adopt nullable reference types – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
• Talk Python to Me #272 – No IoT things in hand? Simulate them with Device Simulator Express (Michael Kennedy)
• Codepunk 060: Experiments in AltSpaceVR (Michael Szul)
• Dealing with Exceptions made easy with Ozcode (Ozcode Team)
• A Developer’s Introduction to Data Science Video Series (Sarah Guthals)

Community & Events

• Dev Discussions – Michael Crump on contributing to the Azure community (Dave Brock)
• GitHub Action Hero: Jeremy Shore (Michelle Mannering)
• How We Planned a Virtual Retreat During the Covid-19 Crisis (Natalie)
• Great Things to Do in Philadelphia, July 13-19 (Visit Philly)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column and Compute Scalar Operators and How to Combine Time and Date in SQL SERVER? – Interview Question of the Week #285 and SQL SERVER – View Percentage Completed for A Long Executing Query (Pinal Dave)
• How To Build Server Side Objects Like UDF, Stored Procedure, & Trigger In Cosmos DB (Debasis Saha)
• Nesting ForEach Activities in Azure Data Factory (Andy Leonard)

Miscellaneous

• The Future Of Perl At ActiveState – Part 1 (Jeff Rouse)
• Fix The Planet Part 2: Decarbonization Begins At Home (Caleb Kraft)
• This Week in Programming: Is R Gaining Popularity Because of COVID-19? (Mike Melanson)
• Microsoft starts testing modern commenting experience in Word (Rabia Noureen)
• paint.net 4.2.13 alpha build 7497 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3034 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2020-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #2638 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The .NET Stacks #7: Azure SDKs, testing, community roundup, more! (Dave Brock)
• Friday Five: Azure Live Streaming, Teams Approvals, More! (MVP Award Team)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.07.10 (Steven Murawski)
• The Overflow #29: Checkboxland (Ryan Donovan)
• Code Maze Weekly #33 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• C# Digest Issue #319 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #28, 2020 – Fantomas for VS (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 267 – 11th Jul 2020 (Luce Carter)
• Reading Notes #434 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List 262 (Bruce Lawson)
• GameDev News – July 10, 2020 (Brian Peek)

The Geek Shelf

 Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# (Scott Wlaschin) – Referral Link