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Dew Drop – December 11, 2020 (#3337)

Top Links

Introducing x64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to the Windows Insider Program (Steve Clarke)
You should be customizing your PowerShell Prompt with PSReadLine (Scott Hanselman)
Themes of .NET (.NET Team) – Explore the themes, epics, user stories and issues planned for .NET 6.
.NET 5 support on Azure Functions (Anthony Chu)
What’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0 (Igor Velikorossov)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes 1.20: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to GA (Xing Yang & Xiangqian Yu)
JavaScript Inherits The Earth (Ian Elliot)
The top Kubernetes APIs for cloud-native observability, part 3: the Kubernetes Events API and API Watchers (Caleb Hailey)
Understanding the JavaScript Destructuring Syntax (Marina Mosti)
JavaScript’s Object-Oriented Identity Crisis (Matthew MacDonald)
Docker Desktop 3.0.0: Smaller, Faster Releases (Stephen Turner)
Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topic subscriptions (Tom Kerkhove)
First-class TypeScript support in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
Introducing the Okta CLI (Micah Silverman)
Boosting Website Performance with Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK and Edge Network (Jaemi Bremner)
The semantic future of the web (James Turner)
Supporting content decision makers with machine learning (Melody Dye, Chaitanya Ekanadham, Avneesh Saluja & Ashish Rastogi)
Expanding Docker’s Developer Preview Program (William Quiviger)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Code November 2020 (VS Code Team)
No recompile, no redeploy, managing features flags in .NET Core, locally and with Azure (Chris Noring)
Complex log processing with PostSharp and NXLog (Petr Hudecek & NXLog)
Convert Word Documents to PDF in .NET Applications (Prabhat Sharma)
Parsing ETL traces yourself, part 2: The EventLogReader (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

TDD (Test Driven Development) Using MSTest (Nagaraj M)
Bridging the DevOps/Development Observability Chasm to Boost DevOps KPIs (Rami Honig)
Create a DevOps culture with open source principles (Will Kelly)
I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions!!!! And I got them now 🙂 (Abel Wang)
Navigating the Awkward: A Framework for Design Conversations (Ksenia Cheinman)
The Top Characteristics Of Solution-Oriented Leaders (Deanna deBara)
The basics of CI: How to run jobs sequentially, in parallel, or out of order (Itzik Gan-Baruch)
JetBrains Space Is Here (Valerie Andrianova)
What Is a Full Stack Developer (Mahesh Chand)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

5 Ways to Extract Text from PDF Documents in Flutter (Chinnu Muniyappan)
Dual-screen library update with Jetpack Window Manager (Andrei Cirja)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation’s Alex Tramiel (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 122: TJ VanToll on Online Events that Work (Michael Chan)
Create .NET Core Projects with the Command Line | Visual Studio Toolbox and Use an Existing .NET Core Project Template | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Sayed Hashimi)
Demo – Working on Home Automation with Xamarin, Uno Platform, IoT and Azure IoT central (Allan Pead)
Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild – Webinar recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Rocket 310: AirBra Max (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – WSL2 with Stuart Leeks (Dan Clarke)
RunAs Radio – Modern Work using Teams with Karoliina Kettukari (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Software Defined Talk Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Cleaning up build systems and gathering computer history with Adam Gordon Bell (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Xamarin Podcast Episode 83: Wrapping up 2020 by looking ahead to 2021! (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

Everything Announced by Disney During Investor Day 2020 (Nicole Drum) – New content coming from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel & more
Microsoft Imagine Cup competitor spotlight: Janae Chan and Tremor Vision (MS Student Developer Team)
Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program (Elise Hollowed)

Database

Azure SQL Database Connectivity (Arun Sirpal)
Slow Running Query – SQL in Sixty Seconds #146 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Get into Ops/DevOps with this PowerShell LEARN module (Chris Noring)

Miscellaneous

The Microsoft Learn Java learning path (Lee Stott)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3132 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
Collective #640 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with C# and .NET Core (4th Ed) (Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 3, 2020 (#3331)

Top Links

Improving Debug-time Productivity with Source Link (Claire Novotny)
Uno Platform 3.1 Released (Uno Platform Team)
How Does Microsoft Do DevOps (Abel Wang)
December’s Community Standup – .NET MAUI Update (Maddy Leger)

Web & Cloud Development

Don’t Panic: Kubernetes and Docker (Jorge Castro, Duffie Cooley, Kat Cosgrove, Justin Garrison, Noah Kantrowitz, Bob Killen, Rey Lejano, Dan Papandrea, Jeffrey Sica & Davanum “Dims” Srinivas)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 297 – Discovering the Azure Architecture Center (Michael Crump)
Securing an ASP.NET Core API which uses multiple access tokens (Damien Bowden)
Programming languages: Microsoft TypeScript leaps ahead of C#, PHP and C++ on GitHub (Liam Tung)
Complex Model Validation in Blazor Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
.NET 5 AWS Lambda Support with Container Images (Norm Johanson)
What’s New in Angular 11? (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Custom V2 OData queries will be deprecated March 9, 2021 (Jiachen Jiang)
XDS/MHD Community input needed – MHD move away from DocumentManifest (John Moehrke)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

.NET 5.0 and C# 9.0 for Xamarin Developers (Matthew Robbins)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 – Top-Level Statements (Claudio Bernasconi)
Using Spy++ in Visual Studio 2019 (Jason Gaylord)
Our journey to F#: bye-bye fluent syntax Version 2 (Urs Enzler)
Understanding Hierarchical and Self-Referential JSON Data Binding in Tree Grid (Alan Sangeeth)
TX Text Control X19 and TX Spell 8.0 Have Been Released (Bjoern Meyer)
.NET 5 Breaking Changes: Historic Technologies (Jonathan Allen)
Cool things I learned about NUnit while re-launching the docs (Sean Killeen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Energized Work (James Shore)
How Repackager can help IT Pros and Developers? (Radu Popescu)
The new Sketch icon: how we redesigned a classic for Big Sur (Sketch Team)
How pre-filled CI/CD variables will make running pipelines easier (Chrissie Buchanan)
Handling Duplicate Messages (Idempotent Consumers) (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Shaking down the Raspberry Pi 400 (Jeremy Morgan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – NUKE 5.0 with Matthias Koch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C# with CSharpFritz – S2 Ep 1: Build for the Web with ASP.NET Core (Jeff Fritz)
Real Talk JS Episode 112: Next.js and Vercel with Tim Neutkens (John Papa)
The Changelog – Growing as a software engineer (Adam Stacoviak)
Introduction to the series [1 of 20] | Beginner’s Series to: Blockchain (Meaghan Lewis)
.NET 5 & C# 9 with me in the VisualStudio TalkShow Podcast (FR) (Miguel Bernard)
JFrog  | From open source to a successful Startup | Tech Exceptions (Adi Polak & Casey O’Mara)
The CSS Podcast 028: Houdini Series: Paint (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)

Community & Events

Join Docker’s Community All-Hands (William Quiviger)
Move Over, Stack Overflow: Microsoft Launches Q&A for .NET (David Ramel)
Reconnect Series: Christopher Alcock (MVP Award Team)
The State of the Octoverse 2020 (Nicole Forsgren)

Database

How to Install and Configure SSIS with Amazon RDS SQL Server (Sadequl Hussain)
Released: Update to Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server and Microsoft Drivers 5.9.0 Preview/Beta 2 for PHP for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
Released: Public Preview for SQL Server Analysis Services Management Pack (Ebru Ersan)
Play with Couchbase in the Cloud for Free (Eric Bishard)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | November 2020 (Abby Schilbach)
Teams Previews Personal Features for Desktop and Browser Clients (Tony Redmond)
Announcing public preview of the Microsoft Teams Activity Feed API on Microsoft Graph (Abhishek Anand)
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2020 (MS Teams Team)
Roadmap update: externals access to Whiteboard in a Microsoft Teams meeting delayed to March 2021 and Roadmap update: What’s on the Teams roadmap for the end of year? (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Creating a PowerShell DSC extension for your custom tasks (Dominique St-Amand)

Miscellaneous

Scratch For More Than A Brief Coding Encounter (Sue Gee)
Add to OneDrive is generally available (Ankita Kirti)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3126 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-03 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code, 5th Ed. (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Dump – June 15, 2020 (#3216)

Hi folks. I’m off this week but dropping in to provide a batch of links with limited re-sorting. Cheers!

Web & Cloud Development

Level Up Your Progressive Web Application With Shortcuts (Chris Love)
Optimising .NET Core Docker images ()
Building A Facial Recognition Web Application With React (Adeneye David Abiodun)
An Introduction to Azure Data Factory REST API (Andy Leonard)
Using TXTextControl.Web in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (Bjoern Meyer)
Global and Component Style Settings with CSS Variables — Sara Soueidan (Brad Frost)
Multi-App Support with Custom Domains for .NET and AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Brad Webber)
ASP.NET Core Series: Route to Code | On .NET (Cecil Phillip)
How to hide or edit the reason field in Azure DevOps (Dan Hellem)
How to create Private Properties in JavaScript. (Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant)
How to merge arrays using spread operator in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Google Developer Expert, Trainer and Consultant)
An alternative to the Azure DevOps App in the Microsoft Teams app store (Divya Vaishnavi)
The JWT Profile for OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens (and IdentityServer) (Dominick Baier)
June patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
Getting Value from appsettings.json in .NET Core (Jeetendra Gund)
Friday Five: Azure REST API, Custom Debugging On Visual Studio, and more! (JeffreyMVP)
Marten Quickstart with .Net Core HostBuilder (Jeremy D. Miller)
Benchmarking Azure Synapse Analytics – SQL Serverless, using .NET Interactive (Jess Panni)
Protecting an ASP.NET Core Web API with Microsoft Identity Platform (Joseph Guadagno)
Radical Candor S2, Ep. 4 Radically Candid Conversations: Kim Scott & Dr. A. Breeze Harper, Ph.D. Discuss Anti-Racism (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff and Amy Sandler)
How To Manage Docker Hub Organizations and Teams (Peter McKee)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact (Steve Roberts)
Demystifying Pipelines in Azure DevOps (Build and Deployment) (Subodh Sohoni)
DevOps–Pushing Nuget package to Azure Artifacts Repository ()
Introducing “Web Live Preview” (Tim Heuer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Validation Snippets in Xamarin Forms (char0394)
Get started with TinyMvvm and Snippets for TinyMvvm (dhindrik)
Simplifying Xamarin.Forms Grid Column and Row Definitions (Gerald Versluis)
Consuming REST API with Swagger / OpenAPI in Xamarin and Uno Applications (Nick Randolph)
COVID 19 Tracker With WPF, Material Design And WebAPI (Rikam Palkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Exploring top-level statements in C# 9 ()
Learn C# and Unity by Making Digital Tabletop Games ()
Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5 (Rich Lander)
Speed up Creating Code with Live Templates in JetBrains Rider or ReSharper (Joseph Guadagno)
How Do I Think About Async Code?! (Leslie Richardson)
How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio? (Leslie Richardson)
My personal collection of CSharp snippets (C#) (Luis Matos)
IO container in a parallel C# universe (Mark Seemann)
Visual Studio Code May 2020 (Visual Studio Code Team)
Determining approximately how much stack space is available, part 2 and Using fibers to expand a thread’s stack at runtime, part 5 and Using fibers to expand a thread’s stack at runtime, part 6 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Microservices Without Mocks, Part 2: Robust Responses (James Shore)
Unit Testing Assets (Lee Zen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Performance insights for Games, powered by Android Performance Tuner (Android Developers)
Unwrapping the Android 11 Beta, plus more developer updates (Google Developers)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

WebRTC and Peer-to-Peer Video Calling with Ian Ramzy (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – The State of VB.NET with Kathleen Dollard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Hanselminutes – Red Teaming with Leron Gray (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict 206: IoT Build Status with BuildLight (James Montemagno)
Azure Podcast Episode 334 – Windows Containers in AKS (Sujit D’Mello)
.NET with Scott Hunter Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox and Part 2 (Scott Hunter, Robert Green)
CppCast – Web Assembly with Ben Smith (Rob Irving)
13. Records in C# 9 (Andrea Angella)
.NET Core Podcast – The Desktop Story with Paul Michaels (Jamie Taylor)

Community & Events

TechBash 2020, TechBash 2021, and COVID-19 (Jason Gaylord)

Database

Using SQL Server Profiler to Capture Stored Procedures Executions ()
SQL SERVER – Open SSMS from Command Prompt and Azure Data Studio- Export Any SQL SERVER Query As JSON and Azure Data Studio – Explain SQL Server Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
How SQL Server stores data types: floating points (Randolph West)
RavenDB Cloud gets shared plans (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Show and Hide Columns in SharePoint List Forms Using PowerShell (Mohamed El-Qassas)

Miscellaneous

Build 2020 Recap (React Native Team)
Given-When-Then with Style ()
How to Make a CRUD App with Entity Framework Core ()
Testing IOptionsMonitor (Ben Foster)
Reusable Build Components with Interface Default Implementations ()
Improve Entity Framework Core Performance (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
A New Pattern for Exception Logging ()
MSIX Modification Package Introduction ()
ECMAScript proposal: Logical assignment operators ()
Microsoft VS Code turns 5: How GitHub, open source, Google made it a hit, reveals creator ()
TechBash 2020 and COVID-19 (Jason Gaylord)
Build a Blazor WebAssembly Line of Business App Part 1: Intro and Data Access ()
Build a Blazor WebAssembly Line of Business App Part 2: Client and Server ()
Build a Blazor WebAssembly Line of Business App Part 3: Query, Delete and Concurrency ()
Tip 267 – Using the Bot Framework Composer tool ()
Hiring a Diverse Workforce ()
Introducing the new Google Play Console beta (Android Developers)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19645 (Brandon LeBlanc)
When a Columnstore Index Makes Your Query Fail (Brent Ozar)
WebAssembly Extended with Hot Reloading, Remote Debugging and Uniform Hardware Access (Bruno Couriol)
Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 1 (Chris Crone)
Article: Blazor RenderTree Explained (Ed Charbeneau)
Protecting PII in Production Debugging (Etay Yosef)
Announcing sound null safety (Filip Hracek)
Database Administration During a Crisis with Brent Ozar (Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes)
5 Trello Features That Will Change The Way You Work (Janet Mesh)
Dapr v0.8.0 Released (Jason Gaylord)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 (Jeremy Likness)
Get and Store Temperature from a Raspberry Pi with Go (Jeremy Morgan)
Using the Identity libraries with Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
EF Core In depth – what happens when EF Core writes to the database? (Jon P Smith)
Hello Microsoft Identity Platform (Joseph Guadagno)
Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Timing, Response And Passthrough (Part 3) (Kelvin Omereshone)
Webinar – How to stop worrying and adopt nullable reference types (Maarten Balliauw)
Flutter: Dart Immutable Objects and Values (Marco Muccinelli)
Introducing Pausepoints for Unity in Rider 2020.2 (Matt Ellis)
The Long Wait: Can Microsoft Unify Desktop and Mobile Development? (Matthew MacDonald)
The rise of the DevOps mindset (Medi Madelen Gwosdz)
The ultimate guide to Kubernetes microservice deployments (Octopus Deploy)
Cognizant’s Connected Factories | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Adobe Releases Photoshop Camera (Paul Thurrott)
Steps Stack Overflow is taking to help fight racism (Prashanth Chandrasekar)
The Vue 3 Composition API – Getting Started (Joel Parks)
AI Awesomeness: 2020 Update! Microsoft Cognitive Services Speaker Recognition API (Robin Osborne)
The Overflow #25: New tools for new times (Ryan Donovan)
Scaling End-to-End User Interface Tests (Slack Engineering)
Turn on, tune in, drop out, log off (Stack Overflow)
Kong JWT and Auth0 (Jason Farrell)

More Link Collections

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.06.12 (Steven Murawski)
C# Digest Issue #315 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #24, 2020 – Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5 (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #29 (Vladimir Pecanac)
GameDev News – June 12, 2020 (Brian Peek)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 263 – 13th Jun 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)

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