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Dew Drop – February 14, 2020 (#3134)

Top Links

Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
The February 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
How To Write a Flutter Web Plugin: Part 2 (Harry Terkelsen)
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups (Kelly Stirman)
VS Code Integration with GitHub and Azure | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Aaron Powell)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Cognitive Services—New types added to Named Entity Recognition v3 (Azure Team)
Working With GraphQL In Angular: How to Make a GraphQL Query (Peter Mbanugo)
You might not need jQuery (Rob Bazinet)
Intro to AWS Serverless Step Functions (Sophia Parafina)
Blazor WebAssembly Preview – Full-Stack C# Development for Web Applications (Andy Clark)
Transport Layer Security Termination In Rancher 2.x, Part Two (Eamon Bauman)
TypeScript Among Most In-Demand Programming Languages in Software Engineering Report (David Ramel)
New optimizations boost performance in preview builds of Microsoft Edge (MS Edge Team)
Anonymous Aware Middleware with Endpoint Routing and Healthchecks (Steve Gordon)
AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding (Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De Cock, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy & Anne Aaron)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Android Barcode Scanning with Zebra’s EMDK on TC70x (Andrew Hoefling)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development – Fourth Edition Review (Ricardo Peres)
Hidden features of OmniSharp and C# extension for VS Code (Filip W.)
Simplifying Parameter Null and Other Checks with the GuardClauses Library (Jason Roberts)
How to Add a .NET Core 3.0 Custom Control to Your Visual Studio Toolbox in Less Than 3 Minutes (Manivannan Sundararajan)
.NET Framework Programming: Architecture, Usage and Advantages (Saurabh Kumawat)
.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)

Design, Methodology & Testing

TDD Aligns Solving Problems with Business feedback (George Stocker)
How to change the Azure DevOps Projects Process? (Abhijit Jana)
Why Every Single Element of SOLID Is Wrong (Dan North)
Learning the Importance of Learning (Bryan Friedman)
The Developer’s Guide to Being a Better Leader: Solution-ing is Contagious (Santhosh Sundar)
Changing the Monolith—Part 4: Quick tech wins for a cloud-first world (Todd VanderArk)
How we’ll simplify Vault access for GitLab CI/CD users (Valerie Silverthorne)
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack (Keith Adams & Johnny Rodgers)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

My First App: How to Create Your First Android App Step-by-Step (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
Library Evolution in Swift (Slava Pestov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Surviving as a remote tech employee with Jayson J. Phillips (Scott Hanselman)
Software Engineering Daily – Data Warehouse ETL with Matthew Scullion (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Embracing Confusion (Jonathan Cutrell)
Talk Python to Me #251 – Building and UX Testing Azure’s Python SDK (Michael Kennedy)
One Dev Question | How do you enable text to speech in Xamarin? (Dennie Declerq)
Xamarin Podcast Episode 70: It’s Xamarin.Forms Trigger-Mania! (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
Microsoft 365 Developer Day – Dual-Screen Experiences – Recordings (Microsoft 365 Team)
CppCast – C++ on a Watch with Brad Larson (Rob Irving)
Rocket 266: Dating with Bots (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
Leading Agile Podcast – Putting the Enterprise Back in Enterprise Architecture w/ Ross Beurmann (Dave Prior)
The Amp Hour #479 – Why isn’t this working? (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Mary Spio from Ceek VR | Source Code: Real Stories from Startup Founders (Golnaz Alibeigi)
Microsoft France: Developer Community at Ignite the Tour | CodeStories (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Seth Juarez & Anna Soracco)
Learn how to create your first SQL Notebook | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
React Podcast 81: Evan Bacon on Expo and the Future of “Build Once; Run Anywhere” (Michael Chan)
What’s New in .NET Core 3.0 | Tech Tips NDC Sydney 2019 (SSW TV)

Community & Events

A New Adventure In JetBrains Developer Advocacy (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Long Weekend Picks: Valentine’s Day Celebrations, Presidents Day Events & More (Shannon Wink)

Database

Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (SQLTom)
Pessimistic locking RavenDB (Oren Eini)
How to Pass a List of Values Into a Stored Procedure (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Connect to SharePoint using NodeJS (Gunjan Datta)
Track Changes in Word docs without leaving Microsoft Teams (John S. Moh)

PowerShell

PowerShell to upload IEF policies to multiple B2C tenants (Marius Rochon)

Miscellaneous

The Suite Life: 4 tips to a better Gmail inbox (Laura Mae Martin)
paint.net 4.2.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2932 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-02-14 (Dan Rigby)
Roundup #68: Binding Redirects, Combining Types as Effects to Describe an Application, Endpoint from multiple middleware, Clean Architecture (Derek Comartin)
The Go Gazette #92: why not to use func main ; Go 1.13.8 + 1.12.17 (Maarten from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook: 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows (Kunal Chowdhury) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – January 28, 2020 (#3121)

Top Links

Deploying ASP .NET Core 3.1 to Azure App Service (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Introduction to dual-screen devices (Microsoft Docs)
Publish a self-contained .NET Core 3.1 app on Azure DevOps (Thomas Ardal)
TechBash 2019 Keynote Recording Now Available – Learning at Lightspeed with Jeff Fritz (TechBash Team)
The Best Testing Tools for Node.js (David Neal)
HockeyApp hit its final goal (HockeyApp Team)

Web & Cloud Development

An Overview of Convention-Based Routing in ASP.NET Core 3.0 MVC (Matthew Jones)
Deploying TX Text Control to Azure App Service (Bjoern Meyer)
Compodoc: The Ultimate Angular Documentation(Razroo Verified) (Charlie Greenman)
Add a React App to your ASP.NET Core Application and Integrating SignalR with React TypeScript and ASP.NET Core (David Grace)
Azure Analysis Services – integration options using .NET, REST APIs and PowerShell and Azure Analysis Services: 8 reasons why you might want to integrate into a custom application (James Broome)
Web Application Caching in Node.JS (Michael Szul)
Modern Full-Stack Development with Nest.js, React, TypeScript, and MongoDB: Part 1 (Olususi Oluyemi)
How to Create Procedural Clouds Using Three.js Sprites (Robert Borghesi)
NativeScript Replaces JavaScriptCore with V8 for iOS Apps (Sergio De Simone)
ASP.NET Core in Azure App Services’ Docker Images – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Inserting middleware between UseRouting() and UseEndpoints() as a library author – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag – Microservices: Testing, Observing, and Understanding (InfoQ)
Conquer Onboarding Efficiently: Retrieve and Parse Barcode Data (Nick Villalobos)
How containers changed the world (Matthew Revell)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

A Sprint to the Right Direction with the RadTaskBoard for WPF (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
Xamarin.Forms – Bottom TabbedPage in Android (Delpin Susai Raj)

Visual Studio & .NET

Improving Domain-Driven Design updates in EfCore.GenericServices (Jon P. Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Basic Concepts of Software Design and Architecture (John Jacobs)
Losing That “New Year” Motivation? Here’s How To Stay Productive All Year (Deanna deBara)
The Impact of Automated Software Testing on Native Manual Testing (Erna Clayton)
DTrace on Windows – 20H1 updates (Hari Pulapaka)
Code Smell: Black Sheep Method (Joe Eames)
DevOps, Runbooks and kubectl (Matthew Casperson)
Message-IDs for Handling Concurrency (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter Design Patterns: 14 — Prototype (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
How to Develop Particle Iot Apps Using NativeScript (Jared Wolff)
Flutter : Sliders DeMystified (Ankit Chowdhury)
Flutter Widget Guide — InheritedModel Widget in 5 mins or less. (Annsh Singh)
Exploring SwiftUI 3: View Hierarchies and State Updates (Benedict Quinn)
The No-Code Tragedy (Max Lynch)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Building A Community Slack, Discord, Spectrum, Discourse, Forums (Wes Bos)
The Uptake Podcast: Episode 2, Johannesburg (Anna Chu)
Technology & Friends – Tibi Covaci on Migrating to the Cloud (David Giard)
Revision Path – Alex Pierce (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – Replicated Software Delivery with Grant Miller and Marc Campbell (Jeff Meyerson)
InfoQ Podcast: Steve Persch on Open Source Communities and Tough Challenges in Technical Leadership (Steve Persch)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 68 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
No Dogma Podcast #137 – Scott Allen, Re-release of talk about ASP.NET 5 (Bryan Hogan)
AFH 111: Fixing Your Scrum on Aptera Live (Ryan Ripley)
Asp.Net Monsters #149: Fluent Assertions in .NET (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
.NET Bytes Episode 14: News from December 11th, 2019 through January 22nd, 2020 (Calvin A. Allen & Matthew D. Groves)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 131 (Jason Bock)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Electronic Forms and Alternative approaches to data collection with Peter Carson (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Accelerated Database Recovery | Data Exposed | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
Real Talk JS Episode 68: The Truth Behind Testing – Joe Eames (John Papa)
Microsoft Mechanics – Microsoft Teams Controls for Security and Compliance (Christopher Bryan)
uStream – Handling big amounts of data on MCUs | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 128 – Dealing with Burnout (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Philly .NET Hands-On Lab: Azure Functions (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team (Steven Sinofsky)
[The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Nicolas Blank (Nicolas Blank)
[The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Tracy van der Schyff (Tracy van der Schyff)
Pivotal Platform Acceleration Lab for Developers (.NET) (Pivotal Labs)
Philly .NET Meetup – Container Orchestration for .NET Developers (Philly .NET Team)
10 Years of Blogging (Den Delimarsky)
Eight Black History Month Events Celebrating Today’s Black Voices in Philly and Philly Theatre Week Returns With 300+ Stellar Events, February 6-16 (Candace Shelton)
Ask a Developer: Jess Chadwick Thinks Screenshots are Developer-Friendly (ContentLab IO)
Get ready for Game Developers Conference (Kacey Fahey)
Mapping the power of Mozilla’s Rebel Alliance (Katharina Borchert)
Why we terminated our partnership with Microsoft – Re: Next decade of open source (Paul Stovell)
Blog contributor guidelines (Ryan Donovan)

Database

SQL Server UPDATE lock and UPDLOCK Table Hints (Sergey Gigoyan)
Dealing with a No NULL Requirement for Data Modeling in SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
Announcing SSIS Catalog Browser v0.9.1.0 (Andy Leonard)
SQL SERVER – Enable Additional Logging for SQL Server Agent (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Shelly’s Take on… New MS Teams Firstline Workers Features but for Clinicians (Shelly Avery)

PowerShell

Running your first script on PowerShell (Mauro Huculak)
PowerShell Ternary Operator If Only (Tommy Maynard)

Miscellaneous

Newsletters: Developer Advertising at Its Most Effective (Yolanda Fintschenko)
Introducing acronym answers in Microsoft Search (Bill Baer)
An inside look at how NFL coaches shape winning plays with Surface (Microsoft in Business)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2919 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #4) (Michael Eaton)
XamarinBites 34 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Build5Nines Weekly: January 27, 2020 (Chris Pietschmann)
Daily Links 27 Jan 2020 (Malcolm Jack)

The Geek Shelf

C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – October 3, 2019 (#3043)

Top Links

.NET Conf 2019 Sample Code Repo (.NET Team)
Visual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor (Cody Beyer)
Announcing TypeScript 3.7 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Surface Pro X and Surface Laptop 3 Hands-on (Microsoft Mechanics)
Microsoft Duo and Neo: The Software Developer Perspective (David Oliver)
Introducing Windows 10X: enabling dual-screen PCs in 2020 (Eran Megiddo)
Why I Hate Bugs, and What I’ve Decided to Do About Them (Omer Raviv)
Getting started with Git and GitHub is easier than ever with GitHub Desktop 2.2 (Amanda Pinsker)
Surface reveals new holiday lineup and introduces a new category of dual-screen devices built for mobile productivity (Panos Panay)

Web & Cloud Development

Evaluating JavaScript code via import() (Axel Rauschmayer)
What in the world is a JavaScript array? (Syk Houdeib)
8+1 Tips and Tricks for Building Large-Scale Enterprise Angular Applications (Bálint Mérő)
September 2019 .NET/ASP.NET Documentation Update (Maxime Rouiller)
JWTs in React for Secure Authentication (Braden Kelley)
What is a CDN? (As Explained to a 5 Year Old) (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Agnostic components in Angular (Alexander Inkin)
Build an Animated Login Form in Angular Using Kendo UI (Christian Nwamba)
Simplifying Maps in the JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
Speed up ASP.NET Core WEB API application. Part 3 (Eduard Silantiev)
Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches – My New Book (Elton Stoneman)
Angular Mastery: Template Syntax (Erxk Verduin)
Hosting web application on Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure: Container Instances (Jimmy Bogard)
How I Make Sense of RxJS (Laurie Barth)
Working with the AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Construct Library (Lee Packham)
Don’t use Azure Functions as a web application (Maarten Balliauw)
Client-Side TypeScript without ASP.NET, Angular, etc. (Marc Clifton)
New features in React 16.9.0 (Nwose Lotanna)
Build a Customizable JavaScript Data Grid in Minutes (Bernardo de Castilho)
Two ‘Gotchas’ (and Fixes) for Blazor in .NET Core 3.0 (Peter Vogel)
Self-hosted jobs on your computer or in cloud VMs (Appveyor Team)
My First Golang Program (Andrew Healey)
Introduction to WebAssembly for .NET Developers (Antonii Georgiev)
Chrome UI for Deprecating Legacy TLS Versions (Chris Thompson)
Twilio SendGrid Email Validation API now Publicly Available (Eric Carter)
A TypeScript tale - Episode I (Francisco Gomes)
Build security into your next website (Ben Fried)
What’s next for client-side Blazor (Gunnar Peipman)
How to Work with NPM Packages Locally Using .tgz Files (Jaime Jones)
Top Questions: Containers and VMs Together (Jim Armstrong)
Intro To APIs: Why You Should Care About APIs (Kin Lane)
Node v12.11.1 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
Messing around with Apache Kafka using the Confluent Cloud free trial (Richard Seroter)
Server Streaming with gRPC and .NET Core (Steve Gordon)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms: LayoutOptions (Eric Sink)
Introducing Linear and Circular Patterns in WPF Progress Bar (Hari Venkatesh E)
The default value for a XAML dependency property should be immutable (Raymond Chen)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18990 available now! (Kevin Larkin)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Inheritance: A Complete but Gentle Introduction (Carlos Schults)
C# 8 From Novice to Expert – Part 1 Released to Udemy (Jesse Liberty)
F# 4.7 Enables Preview of New Language Features and Relaxes Syntax (Sergio De Simone)
Environment Checks and Better Command Line Abilities for your .Net Core Application (Jeremy D. Miller)
Taming your properties with Fody (Nigel Ferrissey)
C++20’s Conditionally Explicit Constructors (Sy Brand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Is It Time to Get Over Design Patterns? (Matthew MacDonald)
C++ Unit Testing Free for Life Solution (Typemock Team)
Overtime Kills and Deep Work in the Age of Distraction (Christina Marfice)
What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 158 (Sasha Rosenbaum)
People Don’t Leave Jobs. They Leave Toxic Work Cultures. (Amina Aitsi-Selmi)
New workflow editor for GitHub Actions (Chris Patterson)
“Works on my machine” doesn’t work (Colin Jones)
Tell me why: Incident RCAs (Eric Brechner)
How To Use Trello To Manage And Inspire Your Team (Jordan Mirchev)
Five Pitfalls To Avoid When Outsourcing Software Development (Rahul Varshneya)
The State of AI in UI/UX Design (Talin Wadsworth)
Rethinking how we learn security (Todd VanderArk)
What You Need for Effective Remote Work (William Gant)
Maximize Your Content: You Can Infographic That! (Yolanda Fintschenko)
Track the progress of work using Rollup columns (Romi Koifman)
Curate your Design System with Adobe XD and Zeplin (Zeplin Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

#RaspberryPi – 6 commands to install #OpenCV for #Python in #RaspberryPi4 (Bruno Capuano)
Bringing the security and manageability of Windows for IoT to the intelligent edge (Jason Farmer)
Flutter Responsive UI for Learning Platform App (Prateek Sharma)
Quick Intro to Using Svelte to Create a Native Mobile App (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Desktop & Mobile Apps With a Single Codebase (Wes Bos)
MS Dev Show – VS Code Remote Dev & XPS 13 Review (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Flutter: WhatsApp Clone Status View | Story View Feature Tutorial (MTechViral)
Tips for working with JSON in Visual Studio and Working with JSON Schema in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
Visual Studio for Mac + ASP.NET Core – Getting started with ASP.NET Core using eShopOnWeb and Visual Studio for Mac + ASP.NET Core – Add Docker containers and run the solution locally and Visual Studio for Mac + ASP.NET Core – Working with the eShopOnWeb solution and Visual Studio for Mac + ASP.NET Core – Deploy eShopOnWeb to Azure using Visual Studio for Mac (Steve Smith)
Xamarin.Forms 101: Getting to Know your XAML Workspace – Visual Studio 2019 for Windows | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 322 | Cutting Cloud Costs and Cloud Competition (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Migrating EDMX projects to Entity Framework Core | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Jeremy Likness)
STEM Everyday: #140 | Seamstresses, Spacesuits, and the Moon | feat. Alison Donald (Chris Woods)
RunAs Radio – SysInternals with Sami Laiho (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Machine Learning Models | AI Show (Seth Juarez)

Community & Events

Live Online Training (Oct 17) – ASP.NET Core 3.0, Web API and EF Core Fundamentals (Chander Dhall)
October Xamarin and .NET Developer Events (Jayme Singleton)
“I love helping people who aren’t served by the education system.” (Candace Whitney-Morris)
Auth0 Launches Bug Bounty Program (Jeana Tahnk)
5 reasons to attend the 2019 GeekWire Summit (John Cook)
Join us Oct. 11 in DC: Women in Cloud + Government Breakfast (Karina Homme)
Inclusive environments empower big dreams (Laura LoPresti)
16 New & Recently Opened Breweries To Check Out In Greater Philadelphia This Fall (Wendy Ramunno)

Database

Get Column Attributes for all SQL Server Tables that Match Search Criteria (Aaron Bertrand)
A low-cost, open-source, computer-assisted microscope (Helen Lynn)
SQL SERVER – Drop Multiple Columns from a Single Table (Pinal Dave)
Simple Modern Paging in SQL Server – Like Skip and Take (Steve Fenton)
The next generation of SQL is about simplicity and global scale (Derrick Harris)

PowerShell

How to Upgrade to PowerShell 7 (Adam Bertram)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10X: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s new OS (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft teases Neo dual-screen Surface, set to debut holiday 2020 (Brian Heater)
Microsoft surprises with new Surface Duo phone (Chaim Gartenberg)
Microsoft 365 makes work and play more intuitive and natural with innovations in voice, digital ink, and touch (Dan Parish)
Behind the design: Meet Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, and Surface Pro X (Frank Buchholz)
Joining the Dark (Mode) Side (Matthew Jones)
paint.net 4.2.5 is now available! (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2843 and The Morning Brew #2844 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-02 and .NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-03 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2442 and Double Shot #2443 (Mike Gunderloy)
40 Cybersecurity Experts, Podcasts, and Blogs to Follow (Annybell Villarroel)
.NET Annotated Monthly | October 2019 (Rachel Appel)
UX/UI Links of September 2019 (Leon Barnard)

The Geek Shelf

React for Real: Front-End Code, Untangled (Ludovico Fischer)

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