asp.net core – Page 226 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 12, 2020 (#3132)

Top Links

Microsoft 365 Developer Day: Dual-screen experiences (Kevin Gallo)
Announcing TypeScript 3.8 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Forms and Fields in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3.2 is Out! and Rider 2019.3.2 is Available! (Alexander Kurakin)
React Native for Windows & Mac – Milestone 4 Updates (Windows Dev Team)

Web & Cloud Development

JavaScript Canvas Stroke Properties (Ian Elliot)
Angular vs React 2020 : A Comparative Guide (Hiren Dhaduk)
The Hooks of React Router (Agney Menon)
C#.NET: Access GET type REST Web API Method (Asma Khalid)
How to Fetch and Parse RSS Feeds in JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
Mutual TLS and Proof-of-Possession Tokens: Summary (Dominick Baier)
Make HTTP Requests with Axios or Fetch in a React Web Application (Nic Raboy)
Binding Redirects (Nick Craver)
Share images to your website using the Web Share Target API (Michael Scharnagl)
How to use TypeScript Decorators to write modular code and solve cross cutting concerns (Shadid Haque)
Browser Password Managers: Threat Models (Eric Lawrence)
gRPC C++ and Self Signed Certificates (Jared Rhodes)
Syncing Your OpenAPI, RAML, and GraphQL Schema to GitHub with Postman (Kin Lane)
A Rust Introduction to WebAssembly (Obinna Ekwuno)
Should I use microservices? (Sam Newman)
Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Template Areas (Rachel Andrew)
Getting Started With PaC (Sophia Parafina)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Braintree integration in Xamarin Forms (Part.2 ) (Rendy Del Rosario)
Xamarin Details iOS Fix to ‘Prevent App Store Rejection’ (David Ramel)
Microsoft shows off how containerized apps will work in Windows 10X (Mary Jo Foley)
Hinge angle sensor for Uno Platform dual-screen apps (Martin Zikmund)

Visual Studio & .NET

Save Your C# Keystrokes With Tuples (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
How to Do Multi-Class Logistic Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Visual Studio Code CMake Tools Extension: Multi-root workspaces and file-based API (Erika Sweet)
Understanding Dependency Injection in .NET Core (Andrea Chiarelli)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Bliki: OutcomeOverOutput (Martin Fowler)
The Second Time I tried TDD (George Stocker)
The wonderful sound of an atomic commit (James Long)
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20 is here (Jarryd McCree)
Effects of Separating “New” Work vs “Maintenance” Work (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Announcing Ionic 5! (Brandy Carney)
Dart asynchronous programming: Streams (Kathy Walrath)
Setting an Azure IoT Hub connection string in code on an MXChip (Jim Bennett)
Swift 5.2 Improves Performance (Kay Ewbank)
How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2019 (Andrew Ahn)
How to Introduce Flutter in Legacy Native Apps (Mohanraj Karatadipalayam)
Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: trends and investment areas (Tara Prakriya)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Developer Tea – Thought Experiment – Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution (Jonathan Cutrell)
Terraform and Azure DevOps – Delivering a continuous and automated deployment | The DevOps Lab (AbelSquidHead)
Azure Podcast Episode 314 – Azure Sphere (Sujit D’Mello)
Agile Toolkit Podcast – Jurgen Appelo – Startup, Scaleup, Screwum, Lean + Agile DC 2019 (Bob Payne)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – CockroachDB, with Peter Mattis (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 346 | Cloud Earnings and Microsoft Reorgs (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Rework Podcast – Try Everything (Mert Iseri)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 191: Power BI Row-Level Security (Carlos L. Chacon)
STEM Everyday: #154 | Behind the Maker w/The Kosher Tony Stark | feat. Gil Poznanski (Chris Woods)
RunAs Radio – Passwordless Authentication with Libby Brown (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
An Intuitive Approach to Machine Learning Models (Part 1 of 4) | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – How to De-Risk the Move to Self-Employment (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)

Community & Events

Announcing GitHub India (Erica Brescia)

Database

SQL SERVER – Disable Parameter Sniffing with DISABLE_PARAMETER_SNIFFING Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
General Purpose Tier for Azure SQL Database (John Miner)
Azure SQL Database and Error Handling (Arun Sirpal)
The why and more importantly the how of automated database deployment (Octopus Deploy & Redgate)

PowerShell

About AutoRuns version 13.95 (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041.84 to the Slow ring (Brandon LeBlanc)
Nine-Point Circle in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
What Makes An Authentic Voice? (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2930 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-02-12 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2534 (Mike Gunderloy)
XamarinBites 36 (Nigel Ferrissey)

The Geek Shelf

Angular Development with Typescript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev)

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Dew Drop – February 4, 2020 (#3126)

Top Links

Surface Duo – WinUI TwoPaneView implementation via Uno Platform (Jérôme Laban)
Real-Time Web Chat Applications (Sam Basu)
SourceLink, Consuming APIs, and NuGet Dependent Code in ReSharper and Rider 2019.3 (Matthias Koch)
EF Core Relationships in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Use Routing in ASP.NET Core 3.0 Razor Pages (Matthew Jones)
Suppressing Events in Blazor and ASP.NET Core Version 3.1 and Letting the Client Control Data Retrieval with GraphQL in .ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
How to build a PWA from scratch with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Ibrahima Ndaw)
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack (Sarah Drasner & Geoff Graham)
RxJS Pitfalls and how to Avoid Them (Travis Kaufman)
What’s New in Third-Party Blazor Tooling (David Ramel)
Monoliths, Microservices and Multitenancy (John Jacobs)
Solace and Aurelia Battleship Game Course (Thomas Kunnumpurath)
Inserting middleware between UseRouting() and UseEndpoints() as a library author – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)
Fragment Routing with Blazor (Chris Sainty)
SameSite Cookie Changes in February 2020: What You Need to Know (Barb Smith)
The economics of cloud-native go much deeper than sticker price (Derrick Harris)
Microsoft’s Three Browsers (Eric Lawrence)
Architecting a privacy-aware render server (Jeff Yates)
Image Dragging Effects (Mary Lou)
Is it time for a front-end framework? (Max Pekarsky)
Building a Simple Rest API with Go (Sawit Trisirisatayawong)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Replicating user profile UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Introducing the Xamarin.Forms Chat Control (Conversational UI) (Neelakandan Kannan)
Xamarin.Forms – Use BindableProperty in Effects (Delpin Susai Raj)
Modern XAML Development – notes from SWETUGG (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Shows Strong in Tech Skills Reports (David Ramel)
The results of upgrading RavenDB to .NET Core 3.1 (Oren Eini)
C# 8.0 Using Declarations (Dirk Strauss)
C# how to convert a string to int (Thomas Ardal)
Application Parts – Dynamically Register Services from a Plugin (Garry Pilkington)
NAudio 1.10 released with .NET Core 3 support (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Create a Dashboard without a Team in Azure DevOps (Abhijit Jana)
Automate Your Blog With GitHub Actions (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Project Online: Adding tasks where you want them with Power Automate (Brian Smith)
Demystifying DevOps: Essential Building Blocks of a DevOps Approach (Catherine Paganini)
Message Sender: Who Sent the Command/Event? (Derek Comartin)
Code Smell: Null Check (Joe Eames)
YAML Hell in DevOps (Matthias Koch)
Safe by Design: An Overview of UX Security (Mayank Sharma)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing Swift Crypto (Cory Benfield)
How to use Flutter with SQLite (Kenneth Reilly)
Saving Game Data with Unity (Lance Talbert)
Make a Spy Hunter-style scrolling road | Wireframe #31 (Ryan Lambie)
How to Design a Speedometer Using Flutter Radial Gauge (Sheik Syed)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Non-Glamorous Skills You Should Have (Wes Bos)
The Stack Overflow Podcast: Your Buddy is Typing (Ben Popper)
InfoQ Podcast: Caitlin Walker on Clean Language, Anti-Fragility and Inclusiveness (Caitlin Walker)
Real Talk JS Episode 69: React with PWA for Desktop Mobile (John Papa)
Fragmented – An Android Dev Podcast – #188: Containerized applications with Docker (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 69 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Monsters Weekly 150 – Getting started with .NET Core on Linux (Simon Timms, James Chambers & David Paquette)
Increase your productivity with blockchain data manager | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin & Patty Nguyen)
Use Audio on the Vision AI DevKit | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
How can I contribute to this Terminal open source project | One Dev Question (Ross Heise & Miranda O’Neill)
Pragmatic DevOps | Tech Tips NDC Sydney 2019 (SSW TV)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 129 – Conference Speaking with Karl Hughes (John Callaway)

Community & Events

10 Reasons to Drop What You’re Doing and Register for Adobe Summit 2020 (Adobe Communications Team)
Ask a Developer: Sam Basu Learns Hands-On from Text-Based Tutorials (ContentLab IO)
Kathleen Hogan on Skills of the Future (JD Meier)
The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived (Julia Metcalf)
Nerd Nite #98: DC Statehood, Monster Myths, Entomology, Death (Nerd Nite Philly)

Database

SQL SERVER – Drop All Auto Created Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (Tom Warren)

Miscellaneous

Nadella Emphasizes Microsoft’s Developer Commitment (Scott Bekker)
The Developer Experience Begins With Your Ad (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2924 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-02-04 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #5) (Michael Eaton)
XamarinBites 35 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Go Gazette #91: Proposals for Go 1.15 (Maarten Bezemer)

The Geek Shelf

Getting to Know Vue.js (Brett Nelson) – Referral Link

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Adventures in Technical Editing – Three Recent Packt Book Review Projects

2019 was a busy year for me, as evidenced by the relative inactivity on my other blogs:

One of the activities that limited my 2019 blogging time was serving as a technical reviewer for three different .NET related books from Packt Publishing. All three of these books were released in the last few weeks.

Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

This book, written by Shakti Tanwar, is intended for experienced .NET developers who want to build a deep understanding of parallel and async programming with C# and .NET Core. Most of the concepts here apply just as well to .NET Framework developers, so I wouldn’t shy away from this one if you’re not using .NET Core in your projects.

I use async/await, the TPL and parallel programming concepts quite a bit in my daily work, and I still learned quite a bit from this book. I definitely recommend it if you want to build some degree of parallelism into your applications.

Learn ASP.NET Core 3

The 2nd edition book, written by Kenneth Yamikani Fukizi, Jason De Oliveira, and Michel Bruchet, details what you need to get up to speed with .NET Core 3, ASP.NET Core 3 and Entity Framework Core to build modern web applications while leveraging Microsoft Azure along the way.

The authors touch on a little bit of Blazor, one of today’s hottest .NET topics, and give some great advice for building, testing and deploying web applications with ASP.NET Core 3. If you’re familiar with .NET and ready to get into ASP.NET Core, this Packt book provides some good foundations.

C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure

This second edition book by Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, and Jas Rademeyer is written in a fun & useful format. Each chapter is a stand-alone project that drills down into an aspect of C# and/or .NET Core development, and all of the code can is available to readers to try for themselves.

Readers will learn things like Entity Framework Core, rich UWP app development, Azure Functions, ASP.NET Core, and lots more. Some chapters will be useful to any developer, but the majority of the topics here will be most useful to devs with some .NET experience. I like this one and have recommended it to the developers on my team.

Wrapping Up

Let me know what you think of these books. Have you read any of them? What is on your reading list for 2020?

Happy learning!