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Dew Drop – August 27, 2019 (#3018)

Top Links

New and improved NuGet Search is here! (Karan Nandwani)
Exploring Blazor (Jeremy Likness)
Learning how to develop GraphQL solutions with .NET (Glenn Block)
Announcing MSDN Code Gallery Retirement (April Speight)

Web & Cloud Development

Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout – 2nd edition (Rachel Andrew)
JavaScript Best Practices and Coding Conventions – Write Clean Code (Adrian Hajdin)
Jekyll Paging With Tailwind CSS (Scott Watermasysk)
JavaScript Interop and ASP.NET Core Blazor (Madhu Sudhanan P)
Continuously Deploy a Hugo Site with GitLab CI (Nic Raboy)
Using a Custom Translator with Azure Cognitive Services (Bryan Soltis)
.NET Wrappers for Using JavaScript Components in Blazor – WijmoBlazor (Bernardo de Castilho)
Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient (Raman Deep Singh)
Testing asynchronous RxJs operators (Kevin Kreuzer)
Containerising a Blazor WebAssembly App (Chris Sainty)
A Short Introduction to TypeScript (Leonardo Maldonado)
Now available: ONNX Runtime 0.5 with support for edge hardware acceleration (Manash Goswami & Faith Xu)
Node v12.9.1 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
Shared code twixt Purescript server and client (Rob Ashton)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Spice up Your Xamarin.Forms App with Interactive Features of Syncfusion Charts (Karthikeyan V.)

Visual Studio & .NET

How To Refactor EF Linq Queries Without Killing Performance (Lee Richardson)
Cross-Platform dotCover Console Runner and more – What’s New in dotCover 2019.2 (Alexey Totin)
Retry Transient Failures Using SqlClient / ADO.NET With Polly (Ken Dale)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Agile Development: How to Pick the Most Valuable User Stories (Peter Vogel)
How to prevent deployments from overrunning your budget (Bahubali (Bill) Shetti & Tim Davis)
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag – Becoming a Technical Leader (InfoQ)
Counting Sort – The Sorting Algorithm Family Reunion (Matthew Jones)
SOLID Design: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) (Patrick Smacchia)
Reflecting on a DevOps Transformation (Jason Farrell)
Windows 10 Tip: Streamline your tasks using Microsoft To-Do (Athima Chansanchai)
The Bot That Helps You Merge (Phil Haack)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova Electron 1.1.1 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
SwipeRefreshLayout With NestedScrollView — Android (Danish Amjad)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Wes & Scott Look At Svelte 3 (Wes Bos)
CodeNewbie S9:E8 – Why you should read the new edition of the Pragmatic Programmer (Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path 309: Nicole Davis (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – Facebook Release Engineering with Chuck Rossi (Jeff Meyerson)
ASP.NET Monsters #127: Azurite (Simon Timms, James Chambers & David Paquette)
Simplify and Automate Azure IoT Edge Devices Deployment in Global Projects | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
App In The Cloud – Live Code – Episode 2, Azure DevOps (Daniel Hindrikes)
Agile Coffee podcast – episode 60 and Agile Coffee podcast – episode 61 – Agile Open SoCal 2018 (Vic Bonacci)
Easily add support for new languages in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
No Dogma Podcast #128 – Patrick Smacchia, NDepend in 2019 (Bryan Hogan)
Alexa Dev Chat Episode 025 – Chatting with Your Customers Daily through Flash Briefings (Dave Isbitski)
Real Talk JS Episode 47: Will Web Components Replace Frameworks – Sherry List (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 106 – Pragmatic Progs Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Oracle CodeOne 2019 – .NET Program Guide (Oracle)
Register now for the Compliance pre-day at Microsoft Ignite on 11/3/2019 (Ryan Symes)
Introducing Your Microsoft Ignite Community Reporters! (MS Ignite Team)

Database

Partitioning Data in SQL Server without using Partitioned Tables (Aaron Bertrand)
How I Troubleshoot SQL Server Execution Plans (Bert Wagner)
SQL SERVER – Using Query Hint ENABLE_PARALLEL_PLAN_PREFERENCE (Pinal Dave)
DBA Training Plan 13: Why Do Cached Plans Go Bad? (Brent Ozar)
Setting Trigger Order (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

The Best Deep-Dish Pizza in Chicago (Dennis Lee)
Testing the throttled delivery approach for 19H2 (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2817 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-08-27 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2416 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: August 26, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
Collective #543 (Pedro Botelho)
Professional Development – 8/19/2019 – 8/25/2019 (Cameron Presley)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics (Jennifer Robbins)

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Dew Drop – August 13, 2019 (#3009)

Top Links

Visual Studio IntelliCode – Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
Investigating Drag and Drop with Blazor (Chris Sainty)
Logging in C# .NET Modern-day Practices: The Complete Guide (Michael Shpilt)
AutoMapper 9.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
.NET Memory Management posters (Konrad Kokosa)

Web & Cloud Development

Build a Secure React Application with JWTs and Redux (Braden Kelley)
Create a Scrollable Image Gallery in Angular using Kendo UI ScrollView (Christian Nwamba)
Azure Cost Management – 8 tools to help optimize spending and maximize potential in the cloud (Gregor Suttie)
How to Filter Tasks in a JavaScript Gantt – DHTMLX Video Tutorial (Kotryna Kairyte)
Azure Open Datasets are curated public datasets (Lee Stott)
Azure Shell in the new Windows Terminal (Preview) (Pierre Roman)
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
DZone Refcard #215 – Getting Started with Microservices (Andy Hampshire)
DZone Refcard #309 – Managing Microservices (Ariff Kassam)
Introducing SwiftKafka: Accessing Event Streams in Swift (Andrew Lees)
Kubernetes Workloads in the Serverless Era: Architecture, Platforms, and Trends (Bilgin Ibryam)
Announcing Kitura 2.8 and more (David Jones)
Blazor form validation (Gunnar Peipman)
Dynamic Blog Posts with Jekyll (Joseph Guadagno)
Add telemetry to your Electron application with Application Insights (Matteo Pagani)
Where to Put Your TypeScript Type Annotations (Steve Fenton)
Extended Validation Certificates are (Really, Really) Dead (Troy Hunt)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How To Start Hot Reloading In XAML (Sumit Singh Sisodia)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Winforms Rendering Differences on Windows 7 vs Win10 with Scale Set at 150% (Mark Pahulje)
Loading the Treeview for Telerik UI for Blazor with LINQ and Entity Framework: Simplifying Complexity (Peter Vogel)
A bootstrapper script for the Cake .NET Core Global Tool on Windows (Andrew Lock)
Introducing High Contrast Theme in WinForms Theme Studio (Hari Venkatesh E)
Customize Control Information for full metadata requests in odata.net (Kanish Manuja)
Migrations and Seed Data with Entity Framework Core (Marinko Spasojevic)
Styling Pivot Tables in Excel Files .Net Core (Manpreet Kaur)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 1: Do You Need an Agile Approach? (johanna)
Writing Self-Documenting Code (Tori Tsu)
Empathy is a Technical Skill (Andrea Goulet)
Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult? (Patrick Smacchia)
Why you need static and dynamic application security testing in your development workflows (Vanessa Wegner)
How to Practice Pair Programming for Great Results (Vasu P.)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Setting up an Android application with AWS SDK for C++ (Pushen Wang)
Migrating to MRTK2–interacting with the Spatial Map (Joost van Schaik)
Thinking Flutter (Pratik Jain)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Remote Internet (Wes Bos)
CodeNewbie S9:E6 – What is Java good for and why is it still one of the most popular coding languages (Peggy Fisher) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path 307: Isaak Hayes (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: Sarah Wells on Financial Time’s Transition to DevOps (Sarah Wells)
Software Engineering Daily – PlayStation Engineering with Tony Godar (Jeff Meyerson)
ASP.NET Monsters #125: Using SignalR in a Background Service (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
TPDP Episode #30: Building a Developer Community with Meetups (Nic Raboy)
Train with Azure ML and deploy everywhere with ONNX Runtime | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 85 (Jason Bock)
Daniel Roth on Blazor DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 47 and Steve Smith on DevOps Quality – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 48 and Mads Torgersen on the Latest in C# – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 49 (Jeffrey Palermo)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 47 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Real Talk JS Episode 45: Contributing to OSS Documentation with Kapunahale Wong (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
DevTalk Podcast 17 – GraphQL. With Brandon Minnick (Kerry Lothrop)
What is Cloud Native, Really? | Cloud Native (Shayne Boyer)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 104 – Career paths are different with Sadukie (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Interview with Neural Networks with JavaScript Succinctly Author James McCaffrey (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Meet the Splunker: Chloe Fleissig (Tracy Edkins)
GitHub Maintainer Scholarships are now available for GitHub Universe (Brian Douglas)
Apply for a GitHub Inclusivity Scholarship and join us at GitHub Universe (Toya East)

Database

SQL SERVER – Power Options, Power Plans and Database Performance (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database Script for Size (Arun Sirpal)
How to choose the partition key (Szymon Warda)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Leveraging the Webpack Define Plugin in SPFx Projects (Andrew Connell)
No Teams Templates = No Problem: Using Teams & Flow in the Government Cloud (Ricardo Wilkins)

PowerShell

Adding Microsoft PowerShell on Linux Mint (Susantha Silva)

Miscellaneous

FHIR for the Busy Quality Manager (K. Scott Allen)
Lighting crackles near the North Pole in an almost unheard of event (Tom Yulsman)
Microsoft To-Do – Your most requested feature is here – list groups! (Polly Davidson)
Microsoft Edge now has share dialog on Dev and Canary channels (Sean Endicott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2808 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-08-13 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #28) (Michael Eaton)
Double Shot #2406 (Mike Gunderloy)
Professional Development – 8/05/2019 – 8/11/2019 (Cameron Presley)
Collective #540 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects: Build 9 different apps with TypeScript 3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue (Peter O’Hanlon)

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Dew Drop – June 19, 2019 (#2982)

Top Links

GitHub acquires Pull Panda—a better way to collaborate on code reviews (Shanku Niyogi)
Microsoft To-Do for Mac is here! (Polly Davidson)
Postman v7.2 Supports GraphQL (Stacee)
Server-side Blazor in .NET Core 3.0 | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Shayne Boyer & Daniel Roth)
The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core (Matt Mitchell)
Building hybrid applications with the WebView2 developer preview (Limin Zhu)

Web & Cloud Development

Multiple Ways to Register Your Dependencies with ASP.NET Core 3 (Adam Storr)
Hello World With The CLI, AoT, Lazy Loading Routes, Differential Loading, And Ivy In Angular 8.1.0-beta.2 (Ben Nadel)
Image Cropping, Zooming, and Scaling with Angular and JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
Build a Command Line Application with Node.js (David Neal)
The Fundamentals of Improving Productivity with Custom Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
The Journey of JavaScript From Downloading Scripts to Execution – Part III (Ankita Masand)
Introducing the Couchbase Node.js SDK 3.0 Alpha (Brett Lawson)
Promisifying Legacy Web APIs Just for Fun (Christian Nwamba)
Angular CLI: “ng test” with Jest in 3 minutes (v2) (JeB Barabanov)
Build, Share and Run Multi-Service Applications with Docker Enterprise 3.0 (Jenny Fong)
How to integrate Vue.js and ASP.NET Core using SPA Extension (Kazuki Ota)
Hugo Error Pages With IIS In Windows Azure (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Managing State in React using Unstated-Next (Kingsley Silas)
React Hooks and Component Composition (Leonardo Maldonado)
Passing Variables to CSS on a Vue Component (Marina Mosti)
Using Entity Framework Core on Azure Functions with Dependency Injection (Mark Heath)
Unit Testing in Angular (Preston Lamb)
PhpStorm 2019.1.3 is released (Roman Pronskiy)
XML + JSON Serialization in ASP.NET Core (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Run, operate, and scale modern applications with Redis Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Sheryl Sage)
Announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion (Yousef Khalidi)
You Might Not Need Redux (But You Can’t Replace It With Hooks) (Mike Green)
Maintaining state in a Cloudflare Worker (Scott Helme)
Doing The Hard Work To Define APIs (Kin Lane)
Introducing Couchbase Go SDK 2.0 Alpha (Charles Dixon)
TypeScript 3.5 Adds Omit Type, Smarter Union Type Checking (Dylan Schiemann)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms LazyView: boost your app reactivity and startup time (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
How to Import and Export Excel Spreadsheets with C# and WPF (Carey Payette)
Add ASP.NET Core’s Dependency Injection into Xamarin Apps with HostBuilder (James Montemagno)
Automatic Android SDK Management (Jon Douglas)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18917 available now! (Kevin Larkin)
How to host a code file on Github as Gist to use in your application (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET Framework June 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup (Brett Lopez)
Fixing Random, part 35 (Eric Lippert)
C# 8 Nullable Value Type Enhancements (Jonathan Allen)
Comparing C# Serialization Techniques: Be wary of XML (Morgan Kenyon)
C# – The good parts (Sam Williams)
Communicating between Python and .NET Core with Boost Interprocess (Jared Rhodes)

Design, Methodology & Testing

An example of a micro frontend application (Martin Fowler)
Agile Database Development Best Practices (Nikola Živković)
7 Crucial Practices for a Smooth Transition to Agile and DevOps and How to Make It Stick (Typemock Team)
Link unfurling (preview) in Azure Pipelines app for Slack (Atin Bansal)
Azure DevOps Hidden Gems #1 – Use Secure Files in a Build or Release Pipeline (Graham Smith)
How to recover from a security breach (Todd VanderArk)
Show your peers how to collaborate with GitHub (Arelia Jones)
“Tech” Care of Yourself: strategies for better mental health in tech (Marion LV)
A day in the life of the “average” remote worker (Sara Kassabian & Charlie Ablett)
Automating PM Status Reporting (Den Delimarsky)
3 Strategies for implementing a microservices architecture (Chrissie Buchanan)
Freshen Up Your Trello Workflows With These 7 New Features (Jessica Webb)
Handling Domain Events: Missing Part (Kamil Grzybek)
Banish Merge Conflicts With Semantic Merge (Phil Haack)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Five Android and iOS UI Design Guidelines for React Native (Rakshit Sokal)
Tutorial : Using the Query API with a Prebuilt Couchbase Lite Database in an Android App (Rob Hedgpeth)
ABBYY Announces New Mobile Web Capture SDK (Kevin Sundstrom)
Digging into App Center Data (Mike James)
Introducing the Plum UI Kit for NativeScript (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – New Intl Methods Are Straight Fire (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – Better Code with Steve Smith (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Technology & Friends – Heather Wilde on Anticipatory Design (David Giard)
Revision Path 299: Rich Smith (Maurice Cherry)
Herding Code 237: Tess Ferrandez on Three Real World Machine Learning Projects (Jon Galloway)
InfoQ Podcast: Jossie Haines and Aneri Shah of Tile on Culture, Mentoring, Diversity and Inclusion (Jossie Haines & Aneri Shah)
Observed Tech PODCAST – The Final Episode #OTP (Richard Hay)
Developer Tea – Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
AiA 244: Kubernetes, Docker and Devops with Jessica Deen LIVE from Microsoft BUILD (Charles Max Wood)
How to Use Map() in JavaScript and How to Use Symbols in JavaScript (the Basics) (Bill Ahern)
2019-05-27 (VOD) Can We Execute the .Net Tests inside a Docker Container from Azure and 2019-06-03 (VOD) Bringing the Unit test Results from the Container to Azure Pipeline and Cloud 5 minutes Introduction (2019) (Frank Boucher)
MainThread (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 370: Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns (Robert Blumen)
Azure API Management | Dev SuperPowers Azure Tour | Part 5 (SSW TV)
Azure IoT Edge development with Azure DevOps | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Paul DeCarlo)
ID10T Podcast – Wayne Brady (Chris Hardwick)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Istio 1.2, with Louis Ryan (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 307 | Clear and Stormy Cloud News Updates (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – CosmosDB with Mark Brown (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 74 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Dynamics Business Central on Microsoft Graph with Jared Hall (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Meta Cast Episode 146 – Leaving The Nest (Josh Anderson)
Microsoft Women in Business & Technology Podcast 047 – Building for the customer with CoverWallet Co-founder Rashmi Melgiri (Sonia Dara & Colleen O’Brien)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 096 – Logging and Metrics in .NET Core (John Callaway)
The SitePen Podcast – TypeScript Back Ends with Nest (Bryan Forbes, Paul Shannon, Nick Nisi & Neil Roberts)

Community & Events

Xamarin Developer Summit Schedule Breakdown (Nick Randolph)
Adios to Unfriendly Badges: Ahoy, Lifejacket and Lifeboat (Jon Ericson)
Student innovation takes the stage at Microsoft Build (Microsoft Student Developer Team)

Database

Demonstrating SQL Server NOLOCK Anomalies (Aaron Bertrand)
How to find Updated Column in SQL Server Trigger (Daniel Farina)
SQL SERVER – Increasing Speed of CHECKPOINT and Best Practices and SQL SERVER – 5 Performance Optimizations Must Do for TempDB (Pinal Dave)
Globally Distributed Azure Cosmos DB (Arun Sirpal)
Running RavenDB on burstable cloud instances and Using RavenDB on the Raspberry PI for distributed computing (Oren Eini)
Introducing Couchbase Python Client 3.0 Alpha (Ellis Breen)
The Sprouts of “SDK 3” (Matt Ingenthron)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Getting Started with Securing Microsoft Teams (Craig Eidelman)
Automating Selective Guest Access in Microsoft Teams (Mike Gannotti)

PowerShell

Deploying PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) like an App with Octopus Deploy (Shawn Sesna)
What You Need to Know About PowerShell 7 (Russell Smith)
PSPublicAPI – Module For Listing Free APIs For Use in Software and Web Development (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

Here’s one great way to use your tech skills (Bill Gates)
Windows 10 Tip: Start, simplified (Athima Chansanchai)
Announcing Windows Server vNext Preview Build 18917 (Dona Sarkar)
30 summer updates for OneNote and Class Notebooks (Mike Tholfsen)
JSON vs XML (Ramya Shankar)
paint.net 4.1.7 alpha (build 7107) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2768 and The Morning Brew #2769 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-18 and .NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-19 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #22) (Michael Eaton)
Azure.Source – Volume 87 (Microsoft Azure)
Professional Development – 6/10/2019 – 6/16/2019 (Cameron Presley)
Collective #525 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming (Marijn Haverbeke)

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