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Dew Drop – January 26, 2021 (#3367)

Top Links

Xamarin Community Toolkit: A Must-Have Xamarin Library (Gerald Versluis)
PostSharp’s Great Reset: Announcing Project “Caravela”, a Roslyn-based aspect framework (Gael Fraiteur)
Supporting Open Web Docs to deliver web developer documentation (Kyle Pflug)
Use a Custom Resource Markup Extension to Succeed at UI String Globalization! (Herrick Spencer)
New experience for sending us your feedback (Mads Kristensen)

Web & Cloud Development

New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview and Python 3.9 in Azure Functions is now in public preview (Azure Team)
Prerendering a Blazor WebAssembly app to static files, without an ASP.NET Core host app (Andrew Lock)
Uploading Multiple Files with Angular and .NET Web API (Changhui Xu)
.NET and Java together in Azure Spring Cloud with Pet Clinic (Dave Dieruf)
array.sort() Does Not Simply Sort Numbers in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
From Design To Developer-Friendly React Code In Minutes With Anima (Miroslav Bekyarov)
Authentication in Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
What’s New in Angular Language Service in 2021 (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Azure Service Fabric 7.2 Fifth Refresh Release (Peter Pogorski)
Adopting Azure serverless architectures to help reduce CO2 emissions – Part 2 (Extending to the Edge) (Srinivasan Rakhunathan)
A Better Way to Learn Angular (Vishnu Aravindhan)
Key Features of the Syncfusion Blazor Kanban Board (Rajendran R)
Facebook Releases Version 9.0 of its Platform SDK (Kevin Sundstrom)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Take Partial Screenshots of Your Xamarin.Forms App (Gerald Versluis)
Telerik UI for WinUI Preview R1 2021: New RibbonView, Barcode and more new controls (Kalin Todorov)
Don’t use CollectionView inside ScrollView in Xamarin.Forms (Luis Matos)
Filtering and sorting with Dynamic Data in Xamarin Forms (Part 2) (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

Building ONNX Runtime with TensorRT, CUDA, DirectML execution providers and quick benchmarks on GeForce RTX 3070 via C# (nietras)
Microsoft Using Metadata to Enable Idiomatic Win32 Interop from Rust and Other Languages (Sergio De Simone)
ICYMI C# 8 New Features: Switch Expressions (Jason Roberts)
Microsoft Makes Windows APIs More Accessible (Kay Ewbank)
Rider 2021.1 Roadmap (Matthias Koch)
The NuGet packages we use to build elmah.io (Thomas Ardal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Real Customer Involvement (James Shore)
Advanced automated deployment of Azure SQL Database with Azure DevOps (part 3 of 4) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Advanced Installer 17.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
Get Started with Cucumber and Azure DevOps! (Anusha Ammaluru)
Getting started with the Terraform provider for Octopus Deploy (Rob Pearson)
New Docker Reporting Provides Teams with Tools for Higher Efficiency and Better Collaboration (Marina Kvitnitsky)
A lament about code reviews (George Stocker)
Making Remote Work Work: Useful Tools And Resources (Cosima Mielke)
Welcome to WorkLab — a site devoted to the future of work (Jeff Teper)
Improving how we deploy GitHub (Julian Nadeau)
All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. (Martin Hinshelwood)
How companies are securing devices with Zero Trust practices (Teri Seals-Dormer)
Is Artificial Intelligence Assisted Coding the Next Developer Productivity Silver Bullet? (Patrick Smacchia)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Pico – what did you think? (Ashley Whittaker)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Revision Path – Angela Bains (Maurice Cherry)
Smashing Podcast Episode 34 With Harry Roberts: What’s The State Of Web Performance? (Drew McLellan)
That One Time You Need to A Polygon in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Azure AD Entitlement with Martin Hatch (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Operational Foundation for Cloud Migration or Build | Azure Landing Zones | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Thake & Matt McSpirit)
ML at the edge and in the Cloud with Azure Sphere | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
TWC9: VS Code Day, Microsoft Ignite Spring, Happy Birthday to NuGet, and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Adventures in .NET 053: Abusing C#, Calendars, Epochs and the .NET Functions Framework with Jon Skeet (Part 2) (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
PowerShell News Episode 029 – PowerShell Global Summit, Brad Anderson, Julia White, Michael Niehaus and much more news (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Owning the code, from integration to delivery (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 180 – Felienne Hermans: The Programmer’s Brain (John Callaway)
Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 33: Trader Joe’s 12th Annual Customer Choice Awards Winners (Trader Joe’s)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 111 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Elio Struyf)
AGL 189: AI and the Feeling Economy with Ming-Hui Huang, PhD (John Rouda)
A Year of Conference Talks from the Microsoft C++ Team (Sy Brand)

Community & Events

A New Role (Rich Turner)
Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family (Chris Mills)
Welcome to Open Web Docs! (Dominique Hazaël-Massieux)
Twitter: Introducing Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation (Keith Coleman)

Database

SQL Server SET STATISTICS IO ON Deep Dive (Eric Blinn)
Four Ways to Try Azure Cosmos DB FREE (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
150 Videos on SQL in Sixty Seconds (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams New ‘Offline Experience’ Will Improve Messaging Workflow (Brad Sams)
Using Teams for Live Agent Chat with a Bot on your Website in GCC (Joseph Herres)

PowerShell

Empty Windows recycle bin with PowerShell (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function (Alexis Hagen)
Performance Improvements in Excel for the Web (Danielle Rifinski)
Microsoft Learn for Educators (Lee Stott)
Microsoft Learn for Educators delivers cutting-edge instruction to students (Rachel Wortman Morris)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3156 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-26 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Notes – #47 (Miguel Bernard)

The Geek Shelf

Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node: Build cloud-ready web applications using React 17 with Hooks and GraphQL (David Choi) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 15, 2021 (#3360)

Top Links

Software development in 2021 and beyond (Amanda Silver)
A more integrated terminal experience (Ruben Rios)
4 open source lessons for 2021 (Sarah Novotny)
3 low-code trends: why low-code will be big in your 2021 tech strategy (Dona Sarkar)
Looking back on Software Development in 2020 and forward to 2021 (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s Next: WebStorm 2021.1 Roadmap (Aleksandra Aganezova)
Upgrading to React 17: How to Fix the Issues and Breaking Changes (Andrew Easton)
Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1! (Avanindra Paruchuri)
Using the Document Viewer in Angular Routes (Bjoern Meyer)
Node.js and TypeScript Tutorial: Build a CRUD API and Node.js and TypeScript Tutorial: Secure an Express API (Dan Arias)
Blast Off with Blazor: Build a search-as-you-type box (Dave Brock)
Understanding Microsoft’s Docker Images for .NET Apps (Elton Stoneman)
Integrating A Dialogflow Agent Into A React Application (Nwani Victory)
Azure Easy Auth and Roles with .NET (and .NET Core) (Johnny Reilly)
Processing CloudEvents for Azure EventGrid via Azure Functions (Justin Yoo)
Angular Component Communication (Manish Kumar)
A Look at Vue’s Scoped Slots (Marina Mosti)
Encoding Videos and other Media with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Go (golang) Goroutines – Running Functions Asynchronously (Jeremy Clark)
Node v15.6.0 (Current) (Danielle Adams)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

XAML Naming Conventions in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
Customizable Tabs with TabView for Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
Design for Developers—An Introduction to Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Asynchronous Messaging, Part 2: Durable Queues (Stephen Cleary)
Base64 Encoding With C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
C++ with Visual Studio and WSL2 (Erika)
Updating many-to-many relationships in EF Core 5 and above (Jon P. Smith)
.NET 5: Native Code Improvements and More (Hannes Du Preez)
Here’s a One-Stop Shop for .NET 5 Improvements (David Ramel)
My preferred .NET console stack (Mattias Karlsson)
Build Throughput Series: Template Metaprogramming Fundamentals (Xiang Fan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

MSIX Packaging Tool January 2021 Release is now available! (Sharla Akers)
Developing with Confidence (even in an Abstracted world) (Jessica Deen)
Why continuous learning is important (Shruti Sharma)
Figma and Zeplin: The optimal workflow at ArcTouch (Zeplin Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Providing operating system compatibility on a large scale (Ray Rischpater)
Going Contactless with Electronic Wet Signatures (Bjoern Meyer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Exploring Event Modeling with Adam Dymitruk and What happens when you type a URL in the web browser and press Enter? Computer Stuff #18 (Scott Hanselman)
Simplify Authentication with Managed Identities for Azure Resources | Data Exposed (Marisa Brasile)
Clearing Selection of CollectionView in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Our stack is HTML and CSS (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
AiA 001: The Birth of Angular (Charles Max Wood)
Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – Extending Task Runner Explorer (Mads Kristensen)
.NET Conf Philippines – Modern SPA Development with Blazor (Rockford Lhotka)
SE-Radio Episode 442: Arin Bhowmick on UX Design for Enterprise Applications (Kanchan Shringi)
PPP 313 | How to Prepare for the Future Like a Project Manager, with futurist Brian David Johnson (Andy Kaufman)
CppCast – Priorities for C++23 with Corentin Jabot (Rob Irving)
Asp.Net Monsters – Revamping a Cloud Native Bakery (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
Change Notifications with Microsoft Graph | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Vincent Biret)
Rocket 316: Guess Who’s Back (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Manufacturers who sell direct with omnichannel retail gain powerful customer insights | The Solutions Show with Corey (Corey Sanders & Anupama Raju)
UX Podcast #254 – Sorting out this mess with Abby Covert & Andrew Hinton (UXP Classic) (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Software Defined Talk Episode 281: That’s a thing, I don’t need to read about it (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Reimagine Open: Building a Healthier Internet (Alan Davidson)
Community leaders upskill themselves and find new roles with Elevate by Google Developers (Kübra Zengin)
MVP’s Classes More Inclusive With Teams, Stream (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

Database

Have the tables turned on NoSQL? (John Biggs & Ryan Donovan)
Taking Query Optimizations to the Next Level with Iceberg (Jaemi Bremner)
SQL SERVER Management Studio – Grid vs Text Output (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Getting to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Server and hybrid configurations (MS Teams Team)
Microsoft Teams DLP Playbook!!! (Mavi Etzyon-Grizer)
Teams Roadmap Watch – mid January 2021 (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Files – A modern file explorer that pushes the boundaries of the platform (Luke Blevins, Yair Aichenbaum, Marco Gavelli & the OSS Community)
Microsoft Surface Duo coming to new markets in 2021 (Craig Dunn)
A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack (Ian Carlos Campbell)
How Parler’s Data Was Harvested (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
Microsoft Learn – Proud to be Certified (Thomas Maurer)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3149 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #644 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Code Like a Pro in C# (MEAP) (Jort Rodenburg) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 13, 2021 (#3358)

Top Links

The Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering – Learn (Microsoft Learn)
Does the Language You Choose Change the Carbon Impact of Client UI Apps? (Scott Chamberlin)
Generate a GitHub Actions workflow with Visual Studio or the dotnet CLI (Damian Brady)
How to Become a Better Developer by Asking Questions (Steve Gordon)
Trust, Identity and AppContainer for Windows Apps (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

New Backstage feature: Kubernetes for Service owners (Matthew Clarke)
Make the page count of a 3D book visible using CSS custom properties (Michael Scharnagl)
How Azure.com uses Serverless Functions for Consumption-based utilization and reduced always-on electric footprint (Aaron Hogue)
gRPC & ASP.NET Core 5: Test gRPC endpoints with gRPCurl (Anthony Giretti)
How to Add Commas Between a List of Items Dynamically with CSS (Dave Seidman)
Node.js Mentorship Initiative: N-API Opportunity (A.J. Roberts)
How to Post a File to an Azure Function in 3 Minutes (Bryan Soltis)
Uploading a File to Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Go: Handling JSON in MySQL (Tiago Melo)
Define function overload types with TypeScript (Kent C. Dodds)
A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go (Ian Lance Taylor)
Go (golang) Error Handling – A Different Philosophy (Jeremy Clark)
Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy (Mike Rousos)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Getting Started with Infragistics Ultimate UI for Uno Platform in 5 Steps (Brian Lagunas)
Previewing XAML UIs In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
Customizable Scheduling Views with our Xamarin Calendar Control (Yana Kerpecheva)
Styling the Android bottom tabs animation behavior and font (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

VS Code Java Project Explorer Gets Better (David Ramel)
Debugging Dependency Injection Service Registrations in .NET 5.0 (Adam Storr)
#Net5 – C#9 “records” and “deconstruction” super cool feature (Bruno Capuano)
Introducing the EfCore.SoftDeleteServices library to automate soft deletes (Jon P. Smith)
.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup Update (Tara Overfield)
Rethinking OSS Attribution In .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Introducing Cake Bridge Dependency Injection (Mattias Karlsson)
.NET January 2021 Updates – 5.0.2, 3.1.11, 2.1.24 (Rahul Bhandari)
Forms Processing API Tutorial: Recognize and Process a Form (Zac Cole)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to use GitLab for DevOps, version control, and more (Chrissie Buchanan)
January patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase (Shawn Sesna)
Don’t Use Inverted Color Cues on Toggle Buttons (Anthony)
Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time (Johanna Rothman)
The Case for Codeless Testing (Karl Hughes)
Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 2: New Automation Features in Firefox Nightly (Maja Frydrychowicz)
How Can New Deep Learning Initiatives Overcome Challenges in Robotics? (Exxact Team)
How GitOps and the KRM make multi-cloud less scary. (Richard Seroter)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Own Your Crash Logs with PLCrashReporter: Part 3 (Thomas Moore)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Cilium, with Thomas Graf (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Developer Tea – Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We’re Proven Wrong) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Sourabh Shirhatt)
Tinting Icon and Image Colors in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Building the Future: What’s New in the Mixed Reality Toolkit (Kevin Semple)
Asp.Net Monsters #200d: Conversations with Nik Molar (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
RunAs Radio – Disaster Recovery Strategies to Fight Ransomware with Dave Kawula (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 229 (Jason Bock)
The Changelog – What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for January 2021 (Amanda)
Uno Platform Twitch Tuesdays (Uno Platform Team)
Meet the Splunktern: Cinthia Salazar (Katia Ratkovich)
Five best practices to get the most value from the Microsoft Partner Network (Dan Truax)
Our continuing support for Dreamers (Kent Walker)
3 Impactful Ways To Give Back In 2021 (Serena Edwards)
Pulumi: Upcoming Workshops and Events (Sophia Parafina)

Database

SQL SERVER – List All Dates Between Start and End Date (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database named among the top 3 databases of 2020 (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Connect Guru with Microsoft Teams for a Collaborative Wiki (MS Teams Team)

Miscellaneous

A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon (Reed Berkowitz)
The Lies that can Undermine Democracy (Martin Fowler)
Microsoft moves closer to running all of its own services on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.746 (20H2) to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
Want to teach your kids to code? Here are three apps that can help. (Mark Locklear)
Go read this report that uses GPS to prove Parler users stormed the Capitol (Mitchell Clark)
paint.net 4.2.15 alpha build 7683 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3147 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-13 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Joy of UX: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers (David Platt) – Referral Link

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