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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 – November 24, 2020 (#3325)

Top Links

Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8 (Klaus Loeffelmann)
Exploring What’s New in Xamarin Essentials 1.6 (Leomaris Reyes)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – React, Vue, jQuery: what flavor do you like your Vanilla JS? (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
Create the Chrome Dino Game with Flutter (Matthew Keller)

Web & Cloud Development

C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 2: ASP.NET Core route and query parameters (Thomas Levesque)
Quickly Consume a GraphQL API from React (Nickolas Fisher)
Improving your ASP.NET Core site’s e-mailing capabilities (Imar Spaanjaaars)
Detect Generator Functions with JavaScript (David Walsh)
Type checking in JavaScript: typeof and instanceof operators (Dmitri Pavlutin)
How to Create a Basic JavaScript Entity Relationship Diagram with DHTMLX (Eugene Panchenko)
Testing Vue Applications With The Vue Testing Library (Kelvin Omereshone)
AzureFunBytes Short – Cloud Shell (Jay Gordon)
CSS Isolation in Blazor Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
Zero Trust architectures: An AWS perspective (Mark Ryland)
Welcome Canonical to Docker Hub and the Docker Verified Publisher Program (Matt Carter)
Best 5 Tools for Node.js Monitoring (Olivia Diaz)
A beginner’s guide to developing with React (Shedrack Akintayo)
A Comparison Of async/await Versus then/catch (Bret Cameron)
Creating and using a MinIO Gateway for Azure (David Giard)
Pulling the OpenAPI For Any API You Are Managing With Postman So That You Can Apply Across the API Lifecycle (Kin Lane)
MediaRecorder API (Youenn Fablet)
TypeScript 4.1 Adds Temporal Literal Types (Kay Ewbank)
In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly (Colin Eberhardt)
Naming your REST endpoints (Irina Scurtu)
First Public Working Drafts: WoT Archtiecture 1.1, Thing Description 1.1, Discovery, Profile (Xueyuan Jia)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms 5.0: Debugging Improvements, New Features, and Controls (Antonio Liccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 Records as DDD Value Objects (Vladimir Khorikov)
In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.6 (Greg Roth)
Monitoring .NET scheduled tasks – Tools and alternatives (Thomas Ardal)
Using Scoped Dependencies (Jason Farrell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Tests are hard, LightBDD can help (Jon Hilton)
No, SRE Is Not the New DevOps – Unless It Is (Chris Tozzi)
Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Where To Start With a Separate Team? (Grant Fritchey)
How Dropbox Created a Distributed Async Task Framework at Scale (Eran Stiller)
MSIX – Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts (Ingmar Oosterhoff)
Efficiently manage your YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps with reusable templates (Miguel Bernard)
TeamCity 2020.2: Integration with Bitbucket Cloud, Python and JetBrains Space, Agentless Build Steps, New Administration Features, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
The Product Goal is a commitment for the Product Backlog (Martin Hinshelwood)
Open Source at Travis CI – An Update (Paul Gordon)
The macro problem with microservices (Ryland Goldstein)
What’s big deal with testers? Hit that punching bag !!!! (Shrini Kulkarni)
How to keep your Git history clean with interactive rebase (Tobias Günther)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The future of Kotlin Android Extensions (David Winer)
MAD Skills — Become an Android App Bundle expert (Ben Weiss)
Pi IoT In Python Using GPIO Zero – DC Motors (Harry Fairhead & Mike James)
Model driven Mixed Reality apps using UniRx and a MRKT extension service, part 2 – showing a ‘list’ (Joost van Schaik)
Build a motion detection system with a Raspberry Pi (Lukas Jan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – .NET 5 with Scott Hunter (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Client vs Server Data Validation (Wes Bos)
CodeNewbie S14:E4 – How to use code to build cross-cultural understanding (Laura Gutierrez-Funderburk) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Mark Smith (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
Lightning Talk on AutoFixture at dotNetOxford Nov 2020 (Adam Storr)
SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – OneDrive helps SMBs achieve secure productivity (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 106 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Serge Luca)
Free Python Videos from Manning Publications (Mike Driscoll)
no dogma podcast #148 – Brandon Minnick, Getting an App into the App and Play Stores (Bryan Hogan)
The future of IoT solutions development… today! | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & jorgievision)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 171 – Jeremy Sinclair: Win Insider, .NET on ARM (John Callaway)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 30: Trader Joe’s Holiday Shopping List (Trader Joe’s)

Community & Events

Docker Captain Take 5 – Ajeet Singh Raina (William Quiviger)
Is inequality inevitable? (Bill Gates)
Find out how we’re wrapping up the 2020 events season (Cecilia Judmann)
Light Show Update on MyLightDisplay.com (Jason Gaylord)
‘Tis the season to sharpen your skills with #devthehalls (Microsoft in Business)
Achieving 100 percent renewable energy with 24/7 monitoring in Microsoft Sweden (Noelle Walsh)

Database

Execute SSIS Package with SQLCMD and Parameters (Koen Verbeeck)
Stored Procedure in SQL Server with R Code (Matteo Lorini)
Upgrade your MySQL v5.6 servers with ease and make your end of support planning a bit easier !!! (Parikshit Savjani)
SQL SERVER – Network Port Used (Pinal Dave)
How To Migrate to Scopes and Collections in Couchbase 7.0 (Shivani Gupta)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Bots Secured Behind a Firewall & Teams (Daniel Evans, CK Kashyap & Mark Franco)

PowerShell

You’ve got Help! (Sean Wheeler)

Miscellaneous

Auto mode is now available on Android for one-on-one conversations (MS Translator Team)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.662 (20H2) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Nominee Tony Blinken Talking To Sesame Street’s Grover Goes Viral (Jenna Anderson)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3119 (Chris Alcock)
Reading List 267 (Bruce Lawson)

Dew Drop – November 13, 2020 (#3318)

Top Links

dotnet-script 1.0.0 released – with support for .NET 5.0 and C# 9 (Filip W.)
Source Generators in .NET 5 with ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
Announcing the Release of the Git Experience in Visual Studio (Pratik Nadagouda)
Markup vs Code for UI – Angled Brackets, yay or nay? (Uno Platform Team)
Make your repeated edits faster and more accurate with IntelliCode suggestions (Peter Groenewegen)

.NET Conf 2020 Recorded Sessions

Xamarin.Forms 5: Beautiful and Fast Apps with Less Code (Maddy Leger & David Ortinau)
What’s new for desktop developers building WPF, UWP & WinForms (Chris Sfanos & Dmitry Lyalin)
What’s New in C#? (Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell)
A talk for trailblazers: Blazor in .NET 5 (Steve Sanderson & Safia Abdalla)
Modern Web Development with Blazor & .NET 5 (Daniel Roth & Javier Calvarro)
Keynote – Welcome to .NET 5 (Scott Guthrie, Scott Hunter & Scott Hanselman)
.NET Foundation “State of the Foundation” (Claire Novotny & Layla Porter)
Porting Projects to .NET 5 (Immo Landwerth & Phillip Carter)
.NET 5 Runtime Deep Dive with Rich Lander and the Architects (Rich Lander, Jan Kotas & Stephen Toub)
High-performance Services with gRPC: What’s new in .NET 5 (James Newton-King)
Developer Fun with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

Implement A Webhook Framework With ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Building A Moment-Inspired .fromNow() Date Formatting Method In Angular 10.2.3 (Ben Nadel)
Scaffold Your Clean DDD Web Application – Part 4: Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core and Angular (John Jacobs)
Node.js 14 for Azure Functions is now available in public preview (Azure Team)
Angular 11 has Arrived! (Alyssa Nicoll)
Docker Compose for Amazon ECS Now Available (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
Using TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET with .NET 5 (Bjoern Meyer)
Quick hack: How to make the new CSS Overview feature of Chromium Devtools shareable (Chris Heilmann)
A first introduction to building 3D applications with JavaScript or TypeScript using Babylon.js (Chris Noring)
Using Azure WebJobs in .NET Applications (Code Maze)
Migrating to the new C# Azure KeyVault SDK Libraries (Dominique St-Amand)
Babylon.js 4.2: Simplicity Reimagined (Morgan Ballard)
Real-time Web Applications with SignalR in ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Sanjay Modi)
Building a new Blazor Base Component (Shaun C. Curtis)
React 17: The Stepping Stone for Future Versions (Taran)
Super simple start to Firebase functions (Kent C. Dodds)
The Technical Future of DNN (Mitchel Sellers)
How Google Cloud is helping startups and digital natives succeed (Ryan Kiskis)
Docker Rate Limiting Questions? We have answers (Matt Carter)
Open-Source Audit Log conversion (John Moehrke)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms – Custom TitleView (Delpin Susai Raj)

Visual Studio & .NET

Always profile! The hidden cost of serializing large object graphs to JSON and Always profile! The case of the mysterious performance regression (Oren Eini)
EF Core 5 Many-to-Many Relationships (David Hayden)
Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2020 Release (Claudia Regio)
.NET Framework November 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Tara Overfield)
UWP did not make it into .NET 5, whereas Lazy loading and CSS isolation did make it into Blazor. (Scott Kuhl)
X19 Sneak Peek: Changes for Keyboard Layout and Spell Checking (Bjoern Meyer)
Does .NET 5 Deliver? (Matthew MacDonald)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Security Focused Development with GitHub (Chris Ayers)
Delivery Plans 2.0 Public Preview (Dan Hellem)
Does your GitHub Repo need ‘Code Operations’? (James Dawson)
Why You Need Diversity On Your Team And 4 Ways To Build It (Kat Boogaard)
Creating a question friendly environment (Scott Hanselman)
Migrating your version control to Git? Here’s what you need to know (Suri Patel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

ShapedBottomNavigationView – Part 1 (Mark Allison)
Bringing Sketch 360 to Microsoft Surface Duo (Michael Scherotter)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew’s Meka Egwuekwe (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 118: Jenn Creighton on Composition and Architecture (Michael Chan)
RunAs Radio – Getting Active Directory Ready for Azure with Jess Dodson (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
CppCast – Video Games, Robotics and Audio with Joël Lamotte (Rob Irving)
Rocket 306: Not Political! (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 212 (Jason Bock)
Project Bicep Demo at Ignite 2020 by Mark Russinovich (Jay Gordon)
Balancing promises in your software (Mark Downie)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – If you could fix any software or technology, what would you change? (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
Xamarin Podcast Episode 81: November is for .NET 5 (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

Meet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! (Ross Barich)
Recapping Xamarin Highlights from .NET Conf 2020 (Maddy Leger)

Database

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Word Wrap (Pinal Dave)
The November 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API serverless now in preview! (Theo van Kraay)
Why you should include the database in your 2021 IT strategy (Carly Meichen)

SharePoint & MS Teams

SharePointDsc logging enhancements (Yorick Kuijs)

PowerShell

Caffeinate Windows With PowerShell (Den Delimarsky)
How to change the background of your Windows Terminal settings (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing PowerShell 7.1 (Joey Aiello)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Custom Translator pushes the translation quality bar closer to human parity (MS Translator Team)
Learning Python as a JS Developer (Paras Agarwal)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3112 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #634 (Pedro Botelho)
Latest Cloud News: .NET 5 Released, Apple Silicon M1 CPU, and more! (November 12, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart, Kristin Marsicano & Brian Gardner) – Referral Link

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