aws – Page 114 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 18, 2021 (#3404)

Top Links

Great Looking Settings Screens for Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
Performance and Polish with NuGet 5.9 (Jon Douglas)
Android 12 Developer Preview 2 (Dave Burke)
The path to .NET 5 and Blazor WebAssembly with some fun sprinkled in (Isaac Levin)
A Vision for the Windows Developer Platform (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 309 – How to Deploy Steeltoe .NET apps to Azure Spring Cloud (Michael Crump)
.NET 5 Blazor Powers ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock’ Game (David Ramel)
Blast Off with Blazor: Add a shared dialog component (Dave Brock)
How to Use Finite State Machines in React (Leonardo Maldonado)
Reimagining the AWS .NET deployment experience (Norm Johanson)
Series: Unit Testing in ASP.NET Core MVC – Design ASP.NET Core 5 Applications for Unit Testability – Ultimate Guide (Sanjay Modi)
How to run scripts against multiple Azure VMs by using Run Command (Thomas Maurer)
Three ways to use Puppeteer and Node.js to screenshot web pages and generate dynamic Open Graph images for social sharing (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Tropical Particles Rain Animation with Three.js (Yuriy Artyukh)
Node v15.12.0 (Current) (Danielle Adams)
Data Science in the Cloud (Sophia Parafina)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Best Practices (Jesse Liberty)
Gettings Contacts with Xamarin Essentials and Getting Started with Local Notifications in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Adventures in ARKit – animation (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

Rider 2020.3.4 and ReSharper 2020.3.4 Released (Asia Rudenko)
Creating a NuGet Package (Cody Merritt Anhorn)
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Java v1.0.0 (Courtney Gannon)
Announcing PostSharp 6.9 RC: Visual Studio Tooling performance improvements (Antonin Prochazka)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Dysfunctional metrics kill agile transformations (Sachin Dharmapurikar)
Hardware Hides Many Sins (Steve Smith)
Snapshots in Event Sourcing for Rehydrating Aggregates (Derek Comartin)
Management Peer Cohort vs Team Pairing and Mobbing (Johanna Rothman)
Advanced search in TeamCity with SearchQL plugin (Maria Kudryavtseva)
Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users (Teresa Dietrich)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Supercomputing with Raspberry Pi | HackSpace 41 (Andrew Gregory)
What’s New In Flutter 2? (Carmine Zaccagnino)
5 Things Every Developer Must Know About Flutter 2 (Rajasekar B)
Flutter: Lazy instantiation with the `late` keyword (Shawn Blais)
Auto HDR Preview for PC Available Today (Hannah Fisher)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – How To Build Your Own Auth (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Tinkerbell, with Gianluca Arbezzano (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
.NET Rocks! – MongoDB in the Cloud with James Kovacs and Rachelle Palmer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 107: Live Streaming with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Web Rush Episode 125: Working with JavaScript on TVs and Xbox’s with Todd Spatafore (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
New Video Series: Coding Shorts (Shawn Wildermuth)
Developing amazing educational apps with Microsoft Graph (Lee Stott)
SQL vs NoSQL – Build Faster with MongoDB Atlas (MongoDB)
Design Details 389: Better Design Reviews (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)

Community & Events

The Monthly Mentor Returns 2021 – 3 Webcasts (Pinal Dave)
Celebrating Black Life, Love, and Legacy at Adobe (Karen Robinson)
MVP Women In Tech: The Untold Stories (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
How YouTuber Amy Tangerine inspires creativity through craft (Meagan Keane)
Include 2021: Engaging on diversity and inclusion with intention, as individuals and organizations (Lindsay-Rae McIntyre)
Dart in Google Summer of Code 2021 (Jonas Finnemann Jensen)
Meet the Splunktern: Anne Guo (Katia Ratkovich)

Database

Five facts about the SQL Server Model Database (Sergey Gigoyan)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Human Touch with Microsoft Teams (Mario Trentim)
How to use Office apps with Microsoft Teams to collaborate and create today (Nicole Herskowitz)

Miscellaneous

Java 16 Released (Ben Evans)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21337 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Successful Developer Advertising Campaigns (DeveloperMedia)
The Future of Windows 10 Virtual Desktops (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3193 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-18 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core 5 and React: Full-stack web development using .NET 5, React 17, and TypeScript 4, 2nd Ed (Carl Rippon) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 9, 2021 (#3397)

Top Links

What’s new with GitHub Actions tooling in Visual Studio (Angelos Petropoulos)
Refactor object-oriented code with ReSharper (Rachel Appel)
Ozcode Live Collaborative Debugger for FREE so Everyone Can Use It: Dev, QA, DevOps, SRE (Shimon Hason)
Adventures in .NET 059: Blazor Keeps Getting Better with Daniel Roth (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)

Web & Cloud Development

Building and auto-deploying an ASP.NET Core application – Part 4 – Setting up a CI pipeline in Azure DevOps to build and test your code (Imar Spaanjaaars)
Installing Docker Desktop for Windows and WSL 2 (Andrew Lock)
DS Server: Authorizing Angular Client Components (Bjoern Meyer)
Azure Communications Voice Calling QuickStart (Dan Wahlin)
Ask About Azure: Why do resource groups need a location? (Dave Brock)
A Helpful Algorithm to Determine “this” value in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
An introduction to JavaScript SDK for CloudEvents and Deploying Node.js applications to Kubernetes with Nodeshift and Minikube (Lucas Holmquist)
Blackjack in Blazor Part 4 – Putting it All Together and How to Play a Sound with Blazor and JavaScript (Matthew Jones)
Broadcast Photos to Digital Picture Frames via SMS using AWS Lambda, Twilio and SendGrid (Matthew Vielkind)
How to write a type narrowing identity function (TNIF) in TypeScript (Kent C. Dodds)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

5 Advantages of .NET MAUI Over Xamarin (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET

Automate Your Infrastructure with Automation API and C# (Sophia Parafina)
Generating Date of Birth values for .NET5.0 Record types using AutoFixture (Adam Storr)
Why we need the Rundown Provider (Mark Downie)
How to map IPs to country for free with .NET and IP2Location (Thomas Ardal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Part III: Delivering Reliably (Introduction) (James Shore)
In the fast lane: What are Design Sprints, and why should you run them? (Sketch Team)
How to Turn Your Sketch Designs into Code (Jason Beres)
GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions (Mike Hanley)
The Cookbook: LaTeX (Montana Mendy)
Epics and Outcomes (Scott Sehlhorst)
Infrastructure as code: Create and configure infrastructure elements in seconds (Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas)
Remote Workstations for the Discerning Artists (Michelle Brenner)
Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter 2.0 Increases Web Support (Kay Ewbank)
Introduction to Microsoft Mesh (Lee Stott)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S15:E5 – What you need to know about APIs (Sue Smith) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Azarra Amoy (Maurice Cherry)
Filter Xamarin.Forms CollectionView with ObservableCollection (Gerald Versluis)
DevTalk Podcast 58: The Xamarin Linker. With Pedro Jesus (Kerry Lothrop)
C# with CSharpFritz – S2 E8 – Hosted Services and CORS with ASP.NET Core (Jeff Fritz)
Rob Richardson on Database DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 131 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The Work Item #25 – How to build a career in design and pitch Gary Vee, with Jack Zerby (Den Delimarsky & Courtney Cotten)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Conversational AI with Stephan Bisser (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Radical Candor S3, Ep. 3: Kim Scott & Trier Bryant Talk Bias, Prejudice & Bullying In the Workplace (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Building a bug bounty program for the Pentagon (Lance Cleghorn & Ben Popper)
8 Bits with Brian Benz (Brandon Minnick & Chloe Condon)
Using GitHub as your Project Management Tool Recap | Learn with Dr G | Learn with Dr. G (Sarah Guthals, PhD)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 186 – GitOps with Kelsey Hightower (John Callaway)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 35: A Trader Joe’s Shopping List to Liven Up Your Spring Eating (Trader Joe’s)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 117 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Bert Jansen)
Identity, Unlocked… Explained: Season 2, Ep. 4 (Vittorio Bertocci)

Community & Events

The Dev Talk Show (Mar 10th) – Project Bicep: Simplified Deployments for Azure Resources (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
Introducing Twilio Developer Relations Manager, Alina Rakhmatoullina (Alina Rakhmatoullina)
5 Phenomenal Women Worth Celebrating This International Women’s Day (Candy McClure)
Microsoft C++ Team at ACCU 2021 (Erika)
Celebrating International Women’s Day with #BuildFor2030 (Gavriella Schuster)
Celebrating International Women’s Day with 21 tech trailblazers (Google Developers Team)
GeekWire Awards: Community nominations now open, new categories added (John Cook)
2021 Imagine Cup category feature: Earth (MS Student Developer Team)
Engaging Black girls in STEM learning through game design (Sue Sentance)
International Women’s Day: How to support and grow women in cybersecurity (Teri Seals-Dormer)

Database

Azure SQL Database – Contained user Model (Arun Sirpal)
Benchmarking RavenDB on the Raspberry PI (Oren Eini)
4 Things I Love About Integers #TSQL2sday (Brent Ozar)
Wait Stats for Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #157 (Pinal Dave)
The Serverless Database You Really Want (Patrick McFadin)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Getting started with SharePoint Framework (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

Quickly switching your Power Plan on Windows 10 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3186 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-09 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Notes – #53 (Miguel Bernard)
Reading Notes #464 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Flutter: Native, Cross-Platform Apps the Easy Way (The Pragmatic Programmers) (Carmine Zaccagnino) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 3, 2021 (#3393)

Top Links

Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview (Cathy Sullivan)
Microsoft Mesh – A Technical Overview (Nishant Thacker)
Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1 are Available Today! (Jacqueline Widdis)
What is Microsoft Power Fx? (Greg Lindhorst)
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Book of News (Microsoft)
A visual guide to Dapr (Nitya Narasimhan)
A cloud built for the next decade (Satya Nadella)

Web & Cloud Development

Getting Started with React Query and TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
Autoscaling Redis applications on Kubernetes (Abhishek Gupta)
The science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search (Alexis Hagen)
React.useRef() Guide (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Automating Appointment Reminders in C# using AWS Lambda (Graham Else)
Creating An Outside Focus And Click Handler React Component (Arihant Verma)
With Azure Percept, Microsoft adds new ways for customers to bring AI to the edge (John Roach)
Using HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
Full Coverage of Azure Resources with Azure-Native (Mikhail Shilkov)
Telerik Scheduler for Blazor (Part 3): Driving the User’s Focus (Peter Vogel)
Introducing semantic search: Bringing more meaningful results to Azure Cognitive Search (Luis Cabrera-Cordon)
Improving API Documentation With AWS Lambda (Hilary Weaver-Robb)
Harness the power of data with Azure Data and AI (Rohan Kumar)
jQuery 3.6.0 Released! (Timmy Willison)
Electron 12.0.0 (Keeley Hammond, Michaela Laurencin & Sofia Nguy)
Razor Pages has Components too don’t you know! (Jon Hilton)
Understanding Functions in Go (Manoj Debnath)
A Data-Driven Blueprint to Scaling Cloud Operations Security — Part I (Chris Parkerson)
Node v15.11.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
Pivoting to the future with Microsoft Edge (Sean Lyndersay)
Set of documents that are very focused #FHIR (John Moehrke)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

WPF: Create Syntax Editor for Any Language in 5 Minutes (Mageshyadav)

Visual Studio & .NET

Streaming Vs. Buffered Results With Entity Framework Core 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Intelligent Visual Studio Search Service (Anne Gao)
C# Coding Standards – Updated (Jesse Liberty)
Improvements to Event Sourcing in Marten V4 (Jeremy D. Miller)
IntelliSense for appsettings.json (James Newton-King)
New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET (Sagar Shetty)
Level up your .NET libraries (Ben Foster)
Introducing Cake ClickOnce Recipe – An opinionated recipe for building and publishing .NET 5 Windows apps (Mattias Karlsson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How async and all-remote make Agile simpler (Sara Kassabian)
How And Why Leaders Should Prioritize Wellness Within Their Remote Teams (D Sharma)
Bettering your business with a culture of ethics and integrity (Dan Truax)
DeepMind and Protein Folds at CASP14: 2 Alpha 2 Fold (Exxact Team)
Hybrid work is here. Are you ready? (Jared Spataro)
4 ways Microsoft is delivering security for all in a Zero Trust world (Teri Seals-Dormer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Pico – Vertical innovation (Rob Zwetsloot)
Learning Apple’s SwiftUI or UIKit: Which One Is Right for You Right Now? (Thomas Moore)
Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi is awesome (Rob Miles)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Security and Snyk, with Kamil Potrec (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
AzureFunBytes – Intro to Agile Development with Abel Wang (Jay Gordon)
App In The Cloud – Live – Azure backend with CosmosDB and Azure Search – Episode 2 (Daniel Hindrikes)
Uno Platform on Channel 9 – Demo Galore! (Uno Platform Team)
Adventures in .NET 058: Up in the Cloud with Stu Eggerton (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 398 | Rovers, Chips and Microsoft News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
The CSS Podcast 032: Page Media (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
RunAs Radio – Source Control for IT Pros with Nicole Stevens (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Windows Insider Podcast – Learning with customers (Windows Insider Team)
Updates to Microsoft 365 experiences in Teams, Lists, OneDrive, Stream, Viva, and more (Jeremy Chapman & Omar Shahine)
Microsoft Mesh | The new platform to deliver collaborative mixed reality experiences (Jeremy Chapman & Simon Skaria)
OSS Power-Ups: Fluent Assertions – Webinar recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Build an Infinite Runner Game with Unity and the Realm Unity SDK (Adrienne Tacke & Nic Raboy)

Community & Events

GitHub Security Lab Capture the Flag: A call to hacktion (Bas Alberts)
Season of Docs (SoD) and technical documentation in an open source organization (Khawar Latif Khan)
Ignite 2021: A resilient, reimagined future and next big ‘whoa’ moment (Frank X. Shaw)

Database

SQL SERVER – Find Untrusted Foreign Key (Pinal Dave)
Designing for Related Data without Foreign Keys (Steve Smith)
Advance notifications for Azure SQL Database now in public preview and Azure Cosmos DB: Continuous backup with point in time restore in public preview (Azure Team)
Cosmos DB – Announced at Ignite: new Cassandra and MongoDB capabilities, real-time analytics, enhanced security, and more (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams (Andrea Eoanou)
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2021 and Secure and compliant collaboration with Microsoft Teams (MS Teams Team)
Microsoft Viva announcements at Microsoft Ignite (Seth Patton)

PowerShell

PowerShell Team 2021 Investments (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Don’t forget about coal miners and cement makers on the way to zero emissions (Bill Gates)
Announcing Windows Server 2022 – now in preview (Bernardo Caldas)
Universal Print is ready for business (Issa Khoury)
Download Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10 to automate tasks and processes at no additional cost (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3182 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-03 (Dan Rigby)
.NET Annotated Monthly | March 2021 (Rachel Appel)
The Best C# Blogs (Sebastian Nilsson)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core in Action (MEAP) (Andrew Lock) – Referral Link