cosmos db – Page 83 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 10, 2020 (#3336)

Top Links

Producing Packages with Source Link (Claire Novotny)
5 Must Install NuGet Packages for New Xamarin Projects (James Montemagno)
Updates on Flutter Testing (Chris Sells)
Domain Driven Design in C# (Julie Lerman)
.NET Rocks! – Building a TwitchBot in Blazor with Georgia Nelson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

JavaScript Turns 25 (Ian Elliot)
Angular v11.0.4 Release (Joey Perrott)
How to Deploy Your .NET Core App to Google Cloud, AWS or Azure (Gergely Sinka)
Creating Dynamic Forms With React Hooks (Aaron Powell)
Introducing Docker Engine 20.10 (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes! Really? (Part 1) (Lee Briggs)
Custom Validators and Handling Errors with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
The Future of Hosting with Edge Computing (Karl Hughes)
Q&A with Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard (Rags Srinivas)
AWS Now Offering Mac Mini-based EC2 Instances (Sergio De Simone)
Releasing Skclusive-UI 5.2.0 for Blazor (Sk)
Supporting Open Source Projects at Docker (William Quiviger)
Logic Apps runtime platform updates and development capabilities and App Service Environment v3 now available in public preview (Azure Team)
Adobe Releases the Last Flash Update Ever (BeauHD)
Node v15.4.0 (Current) (Danielle Adams)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Easily Prepare Network Diagrams with Our WPF Diagram Control (Sarathkumar V)

Visual Studio & .NET

No. 1 Visual Studio IDE Feature Request: Linux (David Ramel)
My Workflow for Linux Development on Windows (Chirag Khandelwal)
Use local function attributes with C# 9 (Dave Brock)
Creating Visual Studio for Mac Extensions: A Complete Guide (Kalirajan Ganesan)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 298 – How to run C# notebooks with Azure Cosmos DB (Michael Crump)
Use Entity Framework Core 5.0 In .NET Core 3.1 With MySQL Database By Code-First Migration On Visual Studio 2019 For RESTful API Application (Xiaoping Wu)
What is a GUID? (Ilyana Smith)
Zoom Tricks: Disabling CTRL + MOUSE WHEEL and More (Malin Teegen)
Parsing ETL traces yourself, part 1: wpaexporter (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

December patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
Azure DevOps Shorts: Azure Sentinel and AKS (Jay Gordon)
DevOps Needs Security Champions (John Worrall)
Tech Debt – You can’t put maintenance last if you want to drive a race car (Charles Flatt)
Immediate Custom Action (Horatiu Vladasel)
Enterprise Test Automation Framework: Plugin Architecture in NUnit (Anton Angelov)
Dealing with Remote Team Challenges (Ben Linders & Jeremy Lu)
Event Choreography & Orchestration (Sagas) (Derek Comartin)
Evaluating an Automated Testing Solution (Peter Vogel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Gatsby vs Next.js in 2021 (Wes Bos)
Complete Developer Podcast – Dependencies in Unit Testing (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
RiYL Episode 430: Alex Winter (Brian Heater)
GraphQL Schema Design | On .NET (Cecil Phillip)
Iguazio | The Data Behind MLOps | Tech Exceptions (Adi Polak & Yaron Haviv)
The CSS Podcast 029: Houdini Series: Layout (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
WebRush Episode 113: Micro-Front Ends with Natlia Venditto (John Papa)
Recording – Teams Templates with Sam & Pete (Sam Brown)

Database

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Parameters and Single Quotes (Pinal Dave)
Indexing Service Optimizations with Couchbase Collections (Binh Le)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Roadmap watch: new search, video filters and large meetings in Teams delayed and How to use “Definite Guide” for the new Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms (Vesa Nopanen)
Breakout rooms available this week in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams Team)

Miscellaneous

Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge: Delivering better browser performance (Eleanor Huynh)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3131 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-10 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Xamarin.Forms (2nd Ed) (Ed Snider) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 8, 2020 (#3334)

Top Links

Basic Home Networking 101 – Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #17 (Scott Hanselman)
Bring lights in Unity into the real-world using Philips Hue (Paul Marsh)
Dart: Why nullable types? (Bob Nystrom)
Use C# 9 records and init-only properties in ReSharper and Rider 2020.3 (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

Speed Up Your Angular Application with Code Splitting (Ashnita Bali)
Azure SDK Release (November 2020) (Azure Team)
Using multiple APIs in Angular and ASP.NET Core with Azure AD authentication (Damien Bowden)
Migrating Vue 2 to Vue 3 (John Papa)
Skeleton Screens for React Apps (Leonardo Maldonado)
Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 (Xueyuan Jia)
Resize-Resilient `content-visibility` Fixes (Alex Russell)
Using action results and content negotiation with “route-to-code” APIs (Andrew Lock)

Visual Studio & .NET

Announcing PostSharp 6.8 RC: Support for .NET 5, C# 9 and improvements in logging (Lejla Rasic)
Automate a Markdown links page with Pinboard and C# (Dave Brock)
Creating your first CRUD app with Suave and F# (Diogo Souza)
The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Predicting Die Hard fans with ML.NET and C# (Thomas Ardal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Measuring developer productivity (Isaac Lyman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Learn Bash by writing an interactive game (Jim Hall)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Why should I use React Hooks? (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – System.CommandLine with Jon Sequeira and Kathleen Dollard (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
CodeNewbie S14:E5 – What is Typescript and when should you use it (Dan Vanderkam) (CodeNewbie Team)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 173 – bUnit: A Blazor Testing Lib w/ Egil Hansen (John Callaway)
C# with CSharpFritz – S2 Ep 2: Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC (Jeff Fritz)
Asp.Net Monsters #194: Single File Applications in .NET 5 (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
Measure and optimize app retention like a pro – Apps, Games & Insights Episode 15 (Nir Eyal & Marcus Gners)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Fluid Framework and Distributed Systems with Kurt Berglund (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #294 – oso authorizes Python (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 108 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Isabelle van Campenhoudt)
Welcome and How to Build and Scale a Local Community (Dona Sarkar)
Be a Force for Good – Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program (Josh N.)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Azure Podcast Episode 357 – Verifiable Identity with Blockchain (Sujit D’Mello)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 31: Celebrating the Holidays with Trader Joe’s Crew – And Cookies! (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

GitHub Release Radar · December 2020 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report (Mozilla)
I want to learn about these six things in 2021 (Richard Seroter)

Database

Change Database and Table Collation – SQL in Sixty Seconds #145 (Pinal Dave)
Managing indexing through the Azure Portal in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB (Tim Sander)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s new in Teams Phones | December 2020 (MS Teams Team)
How to: create and add a OneNote tab to your Microsoft Teams team channel using Power Automate + Graph API (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Is it too late to stop climate change? (Bill Gates)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3129 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-08 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #639 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor: How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework (Michael Washington) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – November 27, 2020 (#3327)

Top Links

Announcing Azure Mobile Apps v4.2.0 for .NET (Adrian Hall)
.NET Rocks! – Hello World the Film with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Understanding the difference between null and undefined in Azure Cosmos DB (Tim Sander)
Announcing Microsoft Q&A for .NET (James Montemagno)
Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!) (Andrew Stellman)
Everything from .NET Conf 2020: Sessions, Demos, & More! (Jayme Singleton)

Web & Cloud Development

Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub (Azure Team)
Inline Images with ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
Four More Powerful JavaScript Operators You’ve Never Heard Of (Anthony Jimenez)
Back to Basics: Creating a clickable card interface in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
Use Azure Functions, Azure Storage blobs, and Cosmos DB to copy images from public URLs (Dave Brock)
WebStorm 2020.3 Release Candidate Is Here! and WebStorm 2020.2.4 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
PhpStorm 2020.2.4 is released and PhpStorm 2020.3 RC (Roman Pronskiy)
AbortController in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
Consuming SOAP APIs In .NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Electron 11 Adds Silicon Support (Kay Ewbank)
Custom validation class attributes (Jimmy Engstrom)
Playing with promises and concurrency in TypeScript (Javier Toledo)
Developers Guide to AI (Lee Stott)
Pulumi Import: Generate IaC for Existing Cloud Resources (Paul Stack)
Watch out for .NET Core Runtime Bitness for IIS Installs (Rick Strahl)
Refactoring by Breaking Functions Apart: a TypeScript Experiment (Vincenzo Chianese)
ARM Templates Or HashiCorp Terraform – What Should I Use? (Zachary Deptawa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

GitHub Actions and Cake for TinyMvvm (Daniel Hindrikes)
Background distance-based location updates on iOS (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

Getting Started With Entity Framework Core 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Install .NET Core Apps on Linux in 5 Minutes (Gergely Sinka)
Keep Up To Date With Microsoft’s .NET Live TV (Nikos Vaggalis)
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Now Generally Available (Bruno Couriol)
What’s new and what changed in the 2.0 version of our Firely .NET SDK? (Ewout Kramer)
Why .NET Diagnostics Expert is not just yet-another-online-course? (Konrad Kokosa)
Major changes to the FHIR Client in Firely .NET SDK 2.0 (Marten Smits)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Surviving Black Friday: Or designing for failure (Oren Eini)
Advanced Installer 17.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
Custom Test Automation Framework: Plugin Architecture in MSTest (Anton Angelov)
Outbox Pattern: Reliably Save State & Publish Events (Derek Comartin)
The ultimate guide to preparing great retrospectives (Paulo Caroli)
Working with Git Branches! (Sarah Lean)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Trick to see if your iOS app can be installed on the Apple Silicon Macs (The First Prototype)
IoT Unravelled Part 4: Making it All Work for Humans and IoT Unravelled Part 5: Practical Use Case Videos (Troy Hunt)
Rider for Unreal Engine 2020.3 Preview (Anastasia Kazakova)
Real-time style transfer in Unity using deep neural networks (Thomas Deliot)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Frameworks vs Libraries × Debugging × CSS Modules vs Styled Components × Resumes × Stress Management × More! (Wes Bos)
Herding Code 243: Shawn Wildermuth on his new film, Hello World (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
Hanselminutes – A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 120: Tyler Mcginnis on ui.dev and Early React (Michael Chan)
Real Talk JS Episode 111: IOU Some IoT with Diana Rodriguez (John Papa)
Rocket 308: We Salute the Algorithm (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Logz.io | Stop wasting your time with Old-School Logging | Tech Exceptions (Golnaz Alibeigi)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph Connectors with Raju Nagalinga S (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #292 – Pythonic identity (auth in Python ecosystem) (Michael Kennedy)
Build fantastic documentation using GitBook and Automated Tests with Respawn – NDC Sydney 2020 Ask Me Anything! with Jimmy Bogard (SSW TV)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments (Ben Popper)

Community & Events

Five Open Source Projects We’re Thankful For In 2020 (Lee Brandt)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Nov. 30 – Dec. 6 (Visit Philly)

Database

SQL SERVER – Query Shortcuts and Efficiency Trick – Query Shortcut – SQL in Sixty Seconds #143 (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database – Greatest and Least TSQL (Arun Sirpal)
Cancel Azure SQL Database Import or Export operation (Yochanan Rachamim)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to create O365 Group sites with Teams using Graph API. (SPDev Support)
How to add polls to Teams meetings (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 296 – How to work with Azure Cosmos DB with PowerShell (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous

Beeb, how do you build the world’s first public service voice assistant? (Ben Ryon)
Six tips to make the most out of Microsoft To Do on your Android device (Shilpa Rana)
Info-gating Principles: Content Gating Best Practices (DeveloperMedia)
What’s It Like to Simulate the Next Cascades Volcanic Eruption? (Erik Klemetti)
How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager (Gergely Orosz)
Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV (msmash)
Bob Woodward’s favorite reads of 2020 (Vannessa Cronin)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3121 and The Morning Brew #3122 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #636 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers: Leverage your Python knowledge to quickly learn JavaScript and advance your web development career (Sonyl Nagale) – Referral Link

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