April 2021 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

TechBash 2021 – Call for Speakers

Posted on April 23, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Just a quick post about the upcoming, in-person, TechBash 2021. If you haven’t heard, the call for speakers is now open on Sessionize. Check it out here and submit your sessions and workshops before June 4th.

We hope you’ll tell your friends and join us at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Pocono Manor, PA this October 19-22. We’ll have a day of full-day workshops on Oct 19th, followed by three days of sessions and networking with your peers. Read more about the CfP on the TechBash blog and follow TechBash on Twitter for the latest news and updates.

If your company is interested in becoming a TechBash 2021 sponsor, our updated sponsor prospectus is now available too!

I hope to see some of you (at a safe distance) this fall in the Poconos!

Dew Drop – April 22, 2021 (#3428)

Posted on April 22, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

What’s new in dotnet monitor (Sourabh Shirhatti)
.NET Rocks! – Xamarin Forms to Maui with Gerald Versluis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Develop, test, and deploy an Azure Function with Visual Studio (Microsoft Learn)
The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Craig Loewen)
WSLg Architecture (Steve Pronovost)

Web & Cloud Development

Going Live: Splunk Operator for Kubernetes 1.0.0 (Patrick Ogdin)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 313 – How to develop apps with Azure Database for PostgreSQL using best practices (Azure Team)
Dive into the AWS SDK for .NET’s Runtime Pipeline and Client Configuration (Carlos Santos)
Introducing AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA (Christopher Christou)
Do Microservices require Containers/Docker/Kubernetes? (Derek Comartin)
Blazorise v0.9.3 – patch 5 release notes (Mladen Macanovic)
Building TikTok’s record button using Framer Motion & React (Sam Piggott)
How to Clean Up after Yourself and Why It’s Important (Vue/React) (Thomas Findlay)
Spotify’s Journey to a Unified Codebase for Its Web and Desktop Clients (Eran Stiller)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Are You Starting in Xamarin Forms? Let’s Create a Simple UI (Leomaris Reyes)
Download Data Streams to a File in the Background with Xamarin iOS (Damien Tohin Doumer Kake)
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI: Q&A With David Ortinau (Almir Vuk)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Disable VS Code / GitLens Current Line Blame – ‘You, seconds ago – Uncommitted Changes’ (Jon Gallant)
Containerize .NET for Red Hat OpenShift: Windows containers and .NET Framework (Don Schenck)
Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques – Review, sort of (Ed Price)
Most Complete WinAppDriver VB.NET Cheat Sheet (Teodor Nikolov)
What Do Devs Want for VS 2022? The Top 10 Feature Requests (David Ramel)
Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control X19 Released (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Slow and predictable vs. fast and bursty (Oren Eini)
Add ImgBot to your GitHub Repository (Steve Smith)
5 Little-Known Features To Really Fine-Tune Your Trello Boards (Jessica Webb)
How We Use Space to Develop Content For the JetBrains Guide (Maarten Balliauw)
Want to Change Culture? Have a Plan. (Mike Cottmeyer)
Capture emails during development using smtp4dev and UI Test with Selenium (Niels Swimberghe)
How to show appreciation to your employees (Tarika A.)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 12 Developer Preview 3 (Dave Burke)
Raspberry Pi touchscreen music streamer (Ashley Whittaker)
How to Perform Text Search in a PDF Document Using Flutter PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Selling and Shipping T-Shirts with TypeScript (Wes Bos)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 019: Makefiles (Ben Nadel)
RunAs Radio – Azure Security Center with Yuri Diogenes (Richard Campbell)
User Stopped Typing Behavior (Xamarin Community Toolkit) | The Xamarin Show (Gerald Versluis & John Bijsterbosch)
Update IoT devices in an ISA-95 Industrial network | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Andy Rivas)
App In The Cloud – Live – .NET MAUI and Mobile Blazor Bindings (Daniel Hindrikes)
C# Language Highlights: Top-level statements | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Jayme Singleton)
Yet Another Podcast – C# 9 Series (Jesse Liberty)
Complete Developer Podcast – Quickly Learning New Technology (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
8 Bits with Jocelyn Harper! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
Design Details 394: Open Source Design ft. Joey Banks (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 52 – Scaling Startups with Blerp and MongoDB (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
No Dogma Podcast #153 – Jamie Goldstein, Mental Health and Emotional Fitness During Covid-19 (Bryan Hogan)
DBAle 31: Monitoring matters for modern data management (Chris Kerswell & Chris Unwin)
Azure, Simplified. (New Video Series) (Shahed Chowdhuri)

Community & Events

Building a more sustainable world together (Nick Parker)

Database

SQL Server Row Count for all Tables in a Database (Dattatrey Sindol)
Using a calendar table in SQL Server – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – Change Join Type for Query (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL DB and Managed Instance tempdb (Alexandru Dinica)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Create a “Push to Creative Cloud” Button in SharePoint or OneDrive (Ben Vanderberg)
New Microsoft Teams features: Now you can send praise to colleagues or try out this ‘virtual commute’ (Liam Tung)
Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 3 (Microsoft Teams Team)

PowerShell

Introducing the MySQL Flexible Server PowerShell Module (Daeun Yim)
Borrowing a built-in PowerShell command to create a temporary folder (Sean Kearney)

Miscellaneous

Procmon v3.70, Sysmon v13.10, Autoruns v13.99, TCPView v4.01 and WinObj v3.03 (Alex Mihaiuc)
WSL2 localhost redirect not working (Rocky Lhotka)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3216 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-22 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The React Workshop: Get started with building web applications using practical tips and examples from React use cases (Brandon Richey, Ryan Yu, Endre Vegh, Theofanis Despoudis, Anton Punith & Florian Sloot) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 21, 2021 (#3427)

Posted on April 21, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing KlipTok – Social Media fun for Twitch Clips (Jeff Fritz)
Node.js 16 available now (Bethany Griggs)
Yet Another Podcast – .NET Documentation & C# 9 with Bill Wagner (Jesse Liberty)
Announcing the DirectX 12 Agility SDK! and Getting Started with the Agility SDK (Jacques van Rhyn)

Web & Cloud Development

A System for Grouping & Sorting CSS Properties and CSS General Rules of Thumb (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
Cancelling Requests with React Query (Carl Rippon)
Why is the ASP.NET Core FromBody not working or returning null? (David Grace)
Starting You New React App with Redux? Consider a Simpler Approach Using the Context API (Mario Fernandez)
The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Angular Basics: Introduction to ngFor Directive in Angular (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Say Hello to CSS Container Queries (Robin Rendle)
Check CSS Support in CSS Using @supports Rules (Steve Fenton)
Introducing the Syncfusion Blazor Code Generator for Visual Studio (Kalirajan Ganesan)
Object.entries (David Walsh)
W3C Launches the Web Machine Learning Working Group (Dominique Hazaël-Massieux)
Web of Things (WoT) Explainer Video and New Web Site (Michael McCool)
Breaking changes to the Microsoft Graph assignments API (beta) (Microsoft Graph Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Universal AppLinks on iOS (Tomasz Cielecki)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 Will Be 64-bit (Kay Ewbank)
How to fix: Visual Studio for Mac: No SDK found at specified location? (Almir Vuk)
CMake Presets integration in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Erika)
Convert XLS and XLSX to PDF with .NET Core (C#, VB, and Java) (Gabriel Smith)
Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2021 Release (Luciana Abud)
Hungarian Notation for Fields in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Look ma, no passwords – using Entity Framework Core with Azure Managed Identity, App Service/Functions and Azure SQL DB (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
IronPython 3.4.0-alpha1 (IronPython Team)
.NET quiz – check your level of knowledge about .NET memory management (Konrad Kokosa)
.NET Core Integration Tests using a Sql Server Database in Docker (Paul DeVito)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Agile Manifesto: Why Agile Makes Sense (Ben Linders)
Azure DevOps Delivery Plan 2.0 (Subodh Sohoni)
Fix .NET ICU Build Issues In GitHub Actions (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
The Four Personality Types in the Field of Network Debugging: Which One are You? (Eve Turzillo)
In Slack, no one can hear your scream! (Ian Carroll)
A Business Perspective on CI/CD Pipelines (Ismail Egilmez)
Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust (Joel Norman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Adventures in ARKit – image detection (David Britch)
Announcing HLSL Shader Model 6.6 (Greg Roth)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

What’s new in VelocityX version 3? Must for flutter devs (MTechViral)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 405 | Microsoft’s $20B Acquisition, Upcoming Microsoft 365 Retirements & AWS S3 Data Breaches (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
What I’ve learned from 20 years of programming in C# with Joe Albahari (SSW TV)
The CSS Podcast 039: Paths, shapes, clipping and masking (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
Adventures in .NET 065: So You Want to Go to a Bootcamp (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
JSJ 480: Are Micro Frontends worth the effort? (And if so when?) (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
The Changelog Episode #437 – Into the Nix ecosystem (Domen Kožar, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
React Native Radio 196 – The Art Of Code Review (Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 257 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – CLI in Containers with Garry Trinder (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Fragmented – The Software Podcast 207: How to Optimize Your Home Office (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)

Community & Events

Microsoft statement on Derek Chauvin verdict (Brad Smith)
Stay current with the latest Microsoft Partner Network updates and resources (Dan Truax)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Sabiha Shaik (MS Student Developer Team)
Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Schedule Available (Sy Brand)

Database

PowerShell Commands for SQL Server Instance and Database Settings (Alejandro Cobar)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Research shows your brain needs breaks—Outlook and Microsoft Teams can help (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Plans Significant Overhaul to the Microsoft Store (Brad Sams)
Microsoft talks with Discord end with no buy for now: Report (Mary Jo Foley)
MLB The Show 21 is Available Now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox Game Pass (Ramone Russell)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3215 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-20 and .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-21 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter for Beginners: An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2 (Alessandro Biessek) – Referral Link

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