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Dew Drop – December 11, 2019 (#3090)

Top Links

5 books to enjoy this winter (Bill Gates)
ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 Release Is Out! and Rider 2019.3 Release Is Out! (Alexander Kurakin)
Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 RTW (Gloridel Morales)
TechBash 2019 Recorded Session – The Impact of Diversity (TechBash Team)
Updating an ASP.NET Core 2.2 Web Site to .NET Core 3.1 LTS (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

Integration Testing with ASP.NET Core 3.1 – Swapping a dependency (Adam Storr)
Introducing React Concurrent Mode (Guy Nesher)
Quoting in HTML: Quotations, Citations, and Blockquotes (John Rhea)
Multi-Tenancy is Hard: ASP.Net Boilerplate Makes it Easy (Lee Richardson)
Azure Mystery Mansion (Em Lazer-Walker)
React Developer Tooling (Oleksii Kulikov)
Master The Asynchronous State In A Functional React Component (Frank Zickert)
Optimizing Our Blazor Search App (Aaron Powell)
Aurelia SlickGrid (Ghislain B.)
Tools For Building Video Streaming Apps (Amara Graham)
TensorFlow 2.1.0 Will Be the Last Version to Support Python 2 (Anthony Alford)
Object Detection and Tracking using MediaPipe (Ming Guang Yong)
Learning Rust by Contrasting with TypeScript: Part 14 (John Tucker)
Managing Kubernetes Infrastructure with .NET and Pulumi (Luke Hoban)
Debugging Variables With Watchpoints in Firefox 72 (Miriam Budayr)
Edge’s lost “E” (Paul Eiche)
Real-Time Communication Techniques (Sam Basu)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Fabulous Xamarin Forms (Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 19035 available now! (Kevin Larkin)

Visual Studio & .NET

Regex Performance With and Without RegexOptions.Compiled Using .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET Core 3.1 (December 2019) (Ken Dale)
.NET Framework December 2019 Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
Handwriting Recognition using ML.NET (Changhui Xu)
String Comparisons (David Yardy)

Design, Methodology & Testing

5 Benefits of Agile Project Management (Lance Robinson)
How to Write Flexible and Clear Unit Tests (Rani Zilpelwar)
Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #8 – Turn Azure Board Queries into Dashboard Chart Items (Graham Smith)
Beyond Hello World: Building a real-world Docker CI/CD pipeline (Shawn Sesna)
Introducing the AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider for Jenkins (Chris Kilding)
How To Build An Epic Email Workflow With Litmus And Trello (Bettina Specht)
Error MSB4030 when building self-contained apps (Iris Classon)
What are Systems of Delivery and Systems of Transformation—And Why Do You Need Both? (Leading Agile Team)
Multiple Git vulnerabilities in 2.24 and older (Taylor Blau)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 10 on Android TV (Paul Lammertsma)
Code Search with Cross References for the Android Open Source Project (Jeff Bailey, Ally Sillins, Kris Hildrum & Jay Sachs)
IoT ugly Christmas sweaters (Alex Bate)
Exploring SwiftUI Part 1 – A brief history of Apple UI development and Initial impressions (Benedict Quinn)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Sync Up – a OneDrive podcast : Episode 4, “Customer Success” (Ankita Kirti)
Software Engineering Daily – Continuous Intelligence with Kalyan Ramanathan (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Two Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Two) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – A SAFe adoption case study for Scrum Masters | Dmytro Balaba (Vasco Duarte)
No Dogma Podcast #135 – Bob Martin, Clean Agile (Bryan Hogan)
C# Language Highlights: Async Main | On .NET and C# Language Highlights: Local Functions | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Kendra Havens)
Azure Podcast Episode 307 – It’s got to be Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
All Hands on Tech Podcast 006 – AWS re:Invent recap with Ryan Lewis (Jeremy Morgan)
Xamarin.Forms 101: Control Templates | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
RunAs Radio – Python and SQL Server with Julie Smith (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.17, with Guinevere Saenger (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 338 | Microsoft Teams Domination, Some News and Get Off Office 2010 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
STEM Everyday: #148 | Solo Didn’t Eat My Homework | feat. Cat Warren (Chris Woods)
Basic Function and Parameter Types in TypeScript (Bill Ahern)
2019-12-04 (VOD) Project: Use-R-Vote – Adding Social Login to .Net Core WebApp (Frank Boucher)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – Helpful Tips for Buying New Appliances (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Cognitive Services | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Windows Insider Podcast – Business or Personal? A Little Bit of Both (Windows Insider Team)

Community & Events

Speakers wanted for the Richmond (VA) SQL Server Users Group – 2020 (Wayne Sheffield)
Nine Fantastic Ways To Celebrate Kwanzaa In Philadelphia For 2019 (Candace Shelton)
Netflix Hack Day — November 2019 (Tom Richards, Carenina Garcia Motion & Leslie Posada)
The impact of that first repository: Winners of the #myfirstrepo contest (Vanessa Gennarelli)
Adaptive systems, machine learning and collaborative AI with Dr. Besmira Nushi (Alyssa Hughes)

Database

SQL Server Best Practices for Data Quality (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL Server Create Database Examples (Joe Gavin)
SQL SERVER – APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT – Not Always Efficient (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux (Marissa Salazar)

PowerShell

A PowerShell Recursive Function (Tommy Maynard)
“The DSC Book” now Open Source! (Don Jones)
Searching for Content in XOR “Encrypted” Data and Searching for Content in Base-64 Strings (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server vNext Insider Preview Build 19035 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041 (Brandon LeBlanc)
10 Tips for Your Developer YouTube Channel (Claudio Bernasconi)
Tabletop gamer’s gift guide for 2019 (Gareth Branwyn)
Using Grep to Find Strings in Markdown .md Files on Windows (Steve Smith)
Generated Passwords, UX and Security Absolutism (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2893 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2490 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers (Isaac Abraham) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – December 10, 2019 (#3089)

Top Links

We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller (Rich Lander)
Get started with Collections in Microsoft Edge (MS Edge Team)
Vue.js CLI 4 Released (Swanand Kadam)
Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available (Azure Functions Team)
Building your own version of WPF – Live edition (Morten Nielsen)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Customize Your Angular Build With Webpack (Holger Schmitz)
Change Feed support for Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API (Theo van Kraay)
Building a Wikipedia App Using React Hooks and Auth0 (Akash Joshi)
Building REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL (Davide Mauri)
Unit Testing Overview with ASP.NET Core, XUnit, and Moq (Matthew Jones)
ASP.NET Core 3 – Things I Learned / Pro Tips / Migration to ASP.NET Core 3 (David Yardy)
Sending Bulk Emails 3 Ways With Twilio SendGrid And Node.js (Tilde A. Thurium)
Improve cyber supply chain risk management with Microsoft Azure (Todd VanderArk)
Searching in ASP.NET Core Web API (Vladimir Pecanac)
Connect to a JupyterHub from Visual Studio Code (Yuvi Panda)
A Blazor Image File Manager (Michael Washington)
Selenium Scripts Running Load on a Web Browser (Stella Murugesan)
A Handy Sass-Powered Tool for Making Balanced Color Palettes (Stephanie Eckles)
Kubernetes 1.17: Stability (Kubernetes Release Team)
Creating a JAMstack Site with Open Authoring Using Netlify CMS (Brian Rinaldi)
Creating Bespoke Input Components for Blazor from Scratch (Chris Sainty)
Auth0 Explorer Gives Developers Greater Control, Deeper Insight into Authentication Architecture (Jeana Tahnk)
Fun with URL Encodings (Phil Haack)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

FCM implementation in Xamarin Forms – Part II (Anbu Mani)
Santa Talk: An Intelligent Serverless Xamarin App (Matthew Soucoup)

Visual Studio & .NET

Localization Becomes easier with the Localization Manager in ReSharper 2019.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
.NET Core, Docker, and Cultures – Solving a culture issue porting a .NET Core app from Windows to Linux (Andrew Lock)
C++ coroutines: Getting started with awaitable objects (Raymond Chen)
Find anomalies with spike detection and ML.NET (Thomas Ardal)
Bye Bye Coded UI (Troy Walsh)
Document Accessibility with Aspose.PDF for .NET (Ben Hall)
Do things right in VSCode (Jessica Kerr)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Is Pair Programming + TDD worth it? (George Stocker)
The Dos and Don’ts of Scaling Agile (Jessica Seitz)
Azure DevOps : Setting up and pushing nuget package (Sacha Barber)
Modeling Before Infrastructure — Reasons Data Science Projects Fail (Luke Posey)
Improve Windows Enterprise Application Deployment Reliability and Security using MSIX (Russell Smith)
How To Learn As A Developer? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
TeamCity 2019.2 is here with new clean-up rules, EC2 launch templates, a build chain DSL, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
Bad Assumptions Make Bad Code (Alishah Novin)
The Need for Automated Accessibility Testing (Blanca Mendizábal Perelló)
Project Petridish: Efficient forward neural architecture search (Erin Juntunen)
Designing a build system for .NET solutions with Cake – 1: The build submodule & Versioning dependencies (Matthew Abbott)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Using React Native for iOS and Android App Development at Walmart (Sergio De Simone)
Blending Realities with the ARCore Depth API (Shahram Izadi)
AI for Oceans – Kids Use Computer Science For Good (Nikos Vaggalis)
Using Azure Notification Hubs in Apache Cordova and Ionic Apps (John Wargo)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – What Are Github Actions? (Wes Bos)
Software Engineering Daily – Remote Work with Philip Thomas (Jeff Meyerson)
Deploying an ASP.NET Core Application to IIS (When You’re Used to the IIS World) (Michael Szul)
ASP.NET Monsters #142: Customizing Application Insights using Telemetry Initializers (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
JSJ 411: Unit Testing Jest with Daniel Caldas (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 121 – JavaScript Pit of Success w/ Aimee Knight (John Callaway)
Coding After Work Podcast Episode 49 – Blazor, .Net Core 3.1 and spelling reforms with Daniel Roth (Jessica Engström & Jimmy Engström)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 117 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Makers meet Developers with Power Apps and Power Automate with Chris O’Brien (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Querying Data from Big Data Cluster Data Pool | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
IoT is Fun for Everyone! (Ugly Sweater Edition) | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch, Jim Bennett & MAAllen)

Community & Events

5 Useful Channels to Find Hackathons (Carrie Lo)
‘Tis the Season for Hats! Join Us for Winter Bash 2019 (Cesar Manara)
The 2020 Succinctly Readers Awards Are Coming! (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Using the web to help young people find work (Paul Kinlan)
Celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s 8th birthday at a Raspberry Jam (Philip Colligan)
Announcing the Docs.rs Team (The Rustdoc Team)

Database

SQL SERVER – List Number Queries Waiting for Memory Grant Pending (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database – Automatic Tuning – Have you enabled it? (Arun Sirpal)
Copy data from Azure Blob to Azure Database for MySQL using Azure Data Factory (Ramky Chan)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Soar into 2020 with 12 new Microsoft Teams for Education updates (Justin Chando)

PowerShell

Improvements in Windows PowerShell Container Images (Joey Aiello)

Miscellaneous

Minecraft: Bedrock Is Coming to PS4 (Kelsey Howard)
How To Prepare for a Conference Talk — A Subjective Guide (Alan Mendelevich)
Windows 10 Tip: New Manage notifications button at the top of the Action Center (Athima Chansanchai)
‘Big fan’ Bill Gates makes appearance in ‘Silicon Valley’ series finale as HBO comedy logs off (Kurt Schlosser)
Microsoft Store empowers students with free Computer Science Education Week workshops (Shy Averett)
It’s Time to Upgrade to Python 3 – Time Is Running Out! (Team Anaconda)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2892 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
Up & Running Weekly – Building large K8s clusters, fixing CPU limits in the cloud, serverless at scale & more (Denis from Jexia)
Build5Nines Weekly: December 9, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
The Top 2019 LinkedIn Engineering Blogs (Jaren Anderson)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Dew Drop – December 6, 2019 (#3087)

Top Links

Updates to .NET Core Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 16.5 Preview 1 (Olia Gavrysh)
What is Microsoft Learn? (Ross Heise & Miranda O’Neill)
Pinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way (Leslie Richardson)
.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019 (Lee Coward)
W3C Recommends WebAssembly to push the limits for speed, efficiency and responsiveness (Coralie Mercier)

Web & Cloud Development

Integration Testing with ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Adam Storr)
A Quick Guide to Integrating React and GraphQL (Terje Kolderup)
Update 19.11 for Azure Sphere SDK now available (Ed Nightingale)
Using Task Runner and NPM Tasks in an ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio 2019 (Michael Szul)
Generate Images from HTML with Gulp and Puppeteer (Nic Raboy)
PhpStorm 2019.3.1 Preview (Roman Pronskiy)
How to Scale Your Amazon EKS Cluster: EC2, Managed Node Groups, and Fargate (Joe Duffy)
Telerik UI for Blazor 2.5.0 – Scheduler, Globalization and .NET Core 3.1 GA Compatibility! (Maria Veledinova)
Globalization in Blazor UI (Marin Bratanov)
Adding Notifications to Long-Running Jupyter Notebook Cells (Mike Driscoll)
Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks when using Prettier in a large codebase (Rob Pilling)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Setting Android Status Bar Background & Icon Colors (James Montemagno)
Adding Support for Multiple Dialog Window Hosts in Prism (Brian Lagunas)

Visual Studio & .NET

MailMerge Class Settings Explained (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps and MultiCloud – Deploying .NET Core Apps in AWS and Azure using Azure DevOps (Abhijit Jana)
MS-AppInstaller Protocol (Alex Marin)
7 Dangers of Micromanagement (Jack Wallen)
Future UI and the End of Design Sandboxes (Bree Chapin)
Component Teams Create Coupling in Products and Organizations (Johanna Rothman)
Imagining the future from an alternative perspective (Mitra Azizirad)
Security best practices for GitHub Enterprise Server (Niels Pineda)
Zeplin for Jira is here — enabling two-way collaboration (Zeplin Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android Game SDK (Dan Galpin)
Storing IoT Data in a database (Jim Bennett)
Implementing BLoC Pattern for parsing JSON from API (Newaj Kabir)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – High Performance C# with Steve Gordon (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Hanselminutes – Rust: A language for the next 40 years with Carol Nichols (Scott Hanselman)
Developer Tea – Justifying Feature Work with User Roles and Motivations (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Cognitive Search | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Building Serverless web applications with Blazor and Azure Functions | On .NET (Cecil Phillip)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – A Christmas Agile Retrospective format to inspire your Scrum Team! | Andy Grosman (Vasco Duarte)
Flashlight (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Reactive UI and Reactive Extensions for Xamarin.Forms | Xamarin Developer Summit (Michael Stonis)
Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Rocket 256: Reverse Rocket Rule (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
React Podcast 75: Sunil Pai on The Future of UI Frameworks (Michael Chan)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 116 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

Ask a Developer: What 5 Things Make Developer-Friendly Content? (ContentLab IO)
The Microsoft Graph team wants to hear from you! (Microsoft Graph Team)
New post notices: Improving feedback on Stack Overflow questions (Yaakov Ellis)

Database

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) DevOps Tools is released in preview (Chunhua)
Easier management of PolyBase and relational data through SQL Server 2019 (SQL Server Team)
Run SSIS Packages with Azure Data Factory in a Cost Effective Way (Fikrat Azizov)
Microsoft Research Open Data Project: Evolving our standards for data access and reproducible research (Erin Juntunen)

Miscellaneous

Become more productive with a clipboard manager (Kevin Logan)
Microsoft kills Store version of Windows 10 Notepad app (Liam Tung)
Microsoft wants everyone to follow its lead with its new mobile design (Tom Warren)
Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2890 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-06 (Dan Rigby)
Svelte Status – Svelte 3.16, “Round” React demo with Svelte, lazy loading in Svelte & more (Marlos from Jexia)
Roundup #61: .NET Core 3.1, AWS CDK, JetBrains Space, How Buildings Learn (Derek Comartin)
The Go Gazette – Principles of Go versioning, Go 1.13.5 & 1.12.14, Advent of Go Code & more (Maarten from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Learn Visual Basic : 2019 Edition (Philip Conrod & Lou Tylee) – Referral Link

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