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Dew Drop – August 14, 2019 (#3010)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released! (Jacqueline Widdis)
Announcing the preview of Azure Actions for GitHub (Atul Malaviya)
What’s New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019 Previews (Pierce Boggan)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8 (Diego Vega)
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 (Richard Lander)

Web & Cloud Development

Use Angular Material to add modern UI components to your Angular projects (Beau Carnes)
CSS Can Do This… And It’s Terrifying! (Aaron Powell)
Using callback URLs for approval emails with AWS Step Functions (Ben Kehoe)
Lazy Loading Modules in Angular 8 (Charlie Greenman)
Azure AD B2C Series – external service call during login and registration (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Azure VMs with Oracle- Next Steps (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
Getting started with Jekyll blog hosted on Azure static website (Gunnar Peipman)
Introducing Syncfusion’s New JavaScript Barcode Generator Control (Kameshwaran R)
Azure SDK August 2019 preview and a dive into consistency (Maggie Pint)
Your single source for Azure best practices (Saket Gupta)
Developing with Docker and ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
Creating ASP.NET Core application with Docker Support (Shweta Lodha)
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
Vue.js, Spring Boot, Kotlin, and GraphQL: Building Modern Apps – Part 1 (Vladimir Fomene)
Creating a Bing Spell Check Service and Calling the Bing Spell Check Service (David Giard)
The Essential Facts About Essential Front-End Tools: ESLint (Vinh Nguyen)
TensorFlow 2.0: Dynamic, Readable, and Highly Extended (Exxact Team)
WebSockets from Scratch (Lee Holmes)
Web.config location element demystified (Thomas Ardal)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Flutter vs Xamarin: An opinion of an analysis (Luis Matos)
Xamarin.Forms – Implement CI/CD using App Center (Delpin Susai Raj)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18956 available now! (Kevin Larkin)

Visual Studio & .NET

Create a Blockchain Explorer in C# (Terje Kolderup)
.NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog (Namrata Karnam)
Side-by-side Minor Version MSVC Toolsets in Visual Studio 2019 (Will Buik)
New for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available (Deborah Chen)
Deploying Dockerized .NET Apps Without Being a DevOps Guru (Julie Lerman)
New C++ Core Check Rules (Jordan Maples)
Debugger additions for Rider 2019.2: Pin to Top, Floating Actions, and Redesigned Stack Frames (Matthias Koch)

Design, Methodology & Testing

5 Agile best practices (Suri Patel)
August patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Erin Dormier)
Getting Started with TeamCity TestDrive (Anton Arhipov)
Application Protection Rule #1: Why In-House App Obfuscation & Defense Doesn’t Measure Up (Gabriel Torok)
Designing for Accessibility (Garenne Bigby)
The Ultimate Guide To Moving Your Teamwork Into The Future [Free eBook] (Genie Alfonzo)
Characteristics of Serverless Architecture (Jan Stenberg)
Cocktail Shaker Sort – The Sorting Algorithm Family Reunion (Matthew Jones)
Use GitHub Classroom with Canvas, Google Classroom, or your own tools (Nathaniel Woodthorpe)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How to use React-Navigation in a React Native App (Aman Mittal)
Five Benchmarks for Writing Dialog that Sounds Great to Alexa Customers (Michelle Wallace)
Build a Raspberry Pi music box with Sally Le Page (Alex Bate)
Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux (Julian Lettner)
More-Efficient Machine Learning Models for On-Device Operation (Larry Hardesty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Flutter: Flutter Bloc Explained With Light & Dark Theme | DevFest App | CH02 | Complete App Tutorial (MTechViral)
Software Engineering Daily – Service Mesh Deployment with Varun Talwar (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Beating Dogma And Choosing The Right Tools (Jonathan Cutrell)
AiA 252: Saying Goodbye to Angular CLI with Hans Larsen (Charles Max Wood)
Introducing Azure Anomaly Detector | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 315 | Catch up on the Latest Microsoft Azure + Office 365 News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Xamarin.Forms 101: Design Time Data | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
Prism for WPF: Custom Region Adapters and Xamarin.Forms Hot Reload and Let’s Learn Blazor: MVVM with Blazor and Let’s Learn Blazor: Getting Started and Let’s Learn Blazor: Dependency Injection and Let’s Learn Blazor: Data Validation with DataAnnotations (Brian Lagunas)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – kubectl Plugins and krew, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Luk Burchard (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
STEM Everyday: #135 | Measuring Beyond What A Paper and Pencil Test Can Do | feat. Jacie Maslyk (Chris Woods)
RunAs Radio – Software Defined Networking with Claudia de Luna (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Richard Campbell on Software Perspectives – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 45 and Kendra Little on Database DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 46 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2 (Gavin Henry)

Community & Events

Meeting Dennis Garavsky (Manuel Grundner)
Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for August 2019 (Amanda)

Database

Improve Data Quality for SQL Server Reporting (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL SERVER – Show Primary Key for a Single Table – sp_pkeys (Pinal Dave)
Azure Data Factory Pipeline Variables (Fikrat Azizov)
Backup Azure Database for PostgreSQL to a Blob Storage (Bashar Hussein)

Miscellaneous

Top 5 advantages of sharing with OneDrive (Ankita Kirti)
Xbox Chief Phil Spencer denies rumors of future streaming-only console to support Project xCloud (Nat Levy)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other Seattle tech leaders join new Sounders pro soccer ownership group (Taylor Soper)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2809 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-08-14 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2407 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux (Alex Banks & Eve Porcello)

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Dew Drop – June 11, 2019 (#2977)

Top Links

Customize object displays in the Visual Studio debugger YOUR way (Leslie Richardson)
Blank tool windows – ReSharper, Visual Studio 2019, .NET Framework 4.8 and Per-Monitor DPI Awareness (Maarten Balliauw)
Announcing NgRx Version 8: @ngrx/data, create functions, runtime checks and mock selectors (Tim Deschryver)
How Cypress Makes Testing Fun (Andrew Evans)

Web & Cloud Development

Beyond Basics – ASP.Net Core Using the Decorator Pattern (Adam Storr)
Accessing Cosmos DB JSON Properties in Azure Functions with Dynamic C# (Jason Roberts)
Introducing Microsoft.FeatureManagement: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
What’s New in JavaScript? (Ankita Masand)
Writing Azure Functions with Telerik Document Processing (Lance McCarthy)
Introducing Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS: The Easiest Way to AWS (Luke Hoban)
HTML5 Boilerplate 7.2.0 and main.css 2.0.0 released (Rob Larsen)
Worker Service in ASP .NET Core (Shahed Chowdhuri)
5 Essential Tips for Building Developer Libraries (Laura Rodríguez)
Draggable Image Strip (Mary Lou)
Creating an Index in LaTeX for PDF Output (Michael Szul)
How Do We Think About Transactions in (Cloud) Messaging Systems? an Interview With Udi Dahan. (Richard Seroter & Udi Dahan)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

WPF: Auto Complete/Suggestion Text Box (Asma Khalid)
Create Visual Studio-like Docking Windows in WPF (Jegan R)
Introducing: The Xamarin Security Scanner (Marco Kuiper)
Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 1) and Migrating a Sample WPF App to .NET Core 3 (Part 2) (Mike Rousos)

Visual Studio & .NET

Fixing Random, part 34 (Eric Lippert)
Adding Try .NET to VSCode launch.json (Jim Bennett)
How can I determine in a C++ header file whether C++/CX is enabled? How about C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen)
The Ray Tracer Challenge – Drawing to a canvas and saving the image to a file (Simone Chiaretta)
How to use Trill for impression feedback (part 2) (Zhong Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Micro Frontends (Martin Fowler)
Getting Everything You Need to Play the Agile Self-assessment Game (Ben Linders)
5 Ways to stay agile in a growing organization (Jeremy Watson)
Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines: C#, ARM, and YAML: Part #1 and Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines: C#, ARM, and YAML: Part #2 – multi-stage builds in YAML (Jeremy Lindsay)
Work Life Balance (Shawn Wildermuth)
Becoming a Great Programmer (Kenneth Reilly)
Discuss amongst yourselves on GitHub (Phil Haack)
DevOps and Your Definition of Done (Assaf Stone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Create Your First Google Assistant Application (Ravi Rupareliya)
Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) (KC Karnes)
Never break the chain: use Kotlin’s extension functions (Dan Lew)
Develop 99% of your app in the browser with Capacitor (Max Lynch)
Install IoT Edge on the Jetson TX2 running JetPack version 4.2 (Mark Taylor)
Flutter BLoC Pattern for Dummies Like Me (Oliver Atienza)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Std Lib in JavaScript (Wes Bos)
Revision Path 298: Husani Barnwell (Maurice Cherry)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 315 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Vision with Joe Beda (Jeff Meyerson)
CosmosDB | Dev SuperPowers Azure Tour | Part 3 (SSW TV)
Over-the-air software updates for Azure IoT Hub with Mender.io | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Using Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
TPDP Episode #28: Coding Bootcamps vs Traditional Computer Science Degrees (Nic Raboy)
Lisa Smith – Agile in Operations at Duke Energy – Business Agility 2019 (Bob Payne)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 43 (Waldek Mastykarz & Vesa Juvonen)
JSJ 368: TypeScript – Good or Bad (Joe Eames & AJ O’Neal)
No Dogma Podcast #123 – Dane Hillard, Good Software Practices (Bryan Hogan)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 72 (Jason Bock)
Ask Octopus Episode 28-30 – JSON configuration substitution, Octopus server as cattle & Active Directory breaking changes. (Derek Campbell)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 095 – Blazor with Ed Charbeneau (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Join Microsoft Teams at Xamarin Developer Summit (James Montemagno)
Cloud-Native Enablement and Training Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All. That’s Why Pivotal Meets Partners Where They Are. (Jeff Kelly)
Keep Attendee Data Safe (Kalahari Meetings)

Database

SQL SERVER – Memory Optimized Tables, Transactions, Isolation Level and Error (Pinal Dave)
Create Tumbling Window Trigger in Azure Data Factory (Fikrat Azizov)
SandDance in Azure Data Studio (Gauri Mahajan)
Running a RavenDB cluster with two nodes (Oren Eini)
Monitor CPU usage on SQL Server and Azure SQL (Jovan Popovich)

PowerShell

PowerShell Presentation Framework – Part 4 (Good Layout Hygiene) (Nathan Ziehnert)
PowerShellGet Find-Both (Tommy Maynard)

Miscellaneous

Insider Program for the New Microsoft Flight Simulator Goes Live (Ryan Maskell)
Joe Developer: When (not) to Drink Coffee (Charles Flatt)
Microsoft will end Xbox One backward compatibility to focus on Project Scarlett (Thomas Wilde)
Advancing Windows 10 as a passwordless platform (Todd VanderArk)
Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2763 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-11 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #21) (Michael Eaton)
Azure.Source – Volume 86 (Microsoft Azure)
Professional Development – 6/03/2019 – 6/09/2019 (Cameron Presley)
Collective #523 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Testing Angular Applications (Jesse Palmer, Corinna Cohn, Mike Giambalvo & Craig Nishina)

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Dew Drop – June 10, 2019 (#2976)

Top Links

Supporting the community with WF and WCF OSS projects (Scott Hunter)
Welcoming Core WCF to the .NET Foundation (.NET Foundation Team)
Building a documentation CLI (Den Delimarsky)
Everything We Announced at the Xbox E3 2019 Briefing (Will Tuttle)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 201 – Creating Custom VM Images in Azure using Packer (Michael Crump)
Blazorise – Components for Blazor (Mladen Macanovic)
Dock Spawn TS – A Typescript fork of Dock Spawn (Jochen Kühner)
Build a Phone System for Your Company With Twilio, Okta, and JavaScript (Randall Degges)
Implementing Sign In with Apple in ASP.NET Core (Scott Brady)
RxJS recipes: ‘forkJoin’ with the progress of completion for bulk network requests in Angular (Alexander Poshtaruk)
Views, Partial Views, and Layouts in ASP.NET Core MVC (Code Maze)
Add a range selector calendar in Angular: a step by step guide (Dhananjay Kumar)
Sails.js with Handlebars — or any other template engine (Emad Ehsan)
Developing a Dockerized Asp.Net Core Application Using Visual Studio Code (Wael Kdouh & Kendell Roden)
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans (Zach Leatherman)
ESLint v6.0.0-rc.0 released (ESLint Team)
How to Use a Vue Pie and Donut Chart UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
5 reasons to use Kubernetes (Daniel Oh)
Creating an interactive mortgage calculator with FormQL (FormQL Team)
Continuous API Testing with Postman (Rebecca)
It’s time for the compatibility opt-in preview of Ivy! (Stephen Fluin)
Calling A Custom Service From Dynamics 365 Virtual Agent for Customer Service (Michael Washington)
Building a C# Interactive shell in a browser with Blazor (WebAssembly) and Roslyn (Filip W.)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Use Maps to Display and Navigate Users with Xamarin.Essentials (James Montemagno)
Observable Collections, Data Binding, And Complex Automation In WPF (John Ritchie)
Xamarin.Forms: Cutting App Costs In Half (Stephen Marcus)
Introducing Xamarin UI July (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# StreamWriter Example (Mahesh Chand)
Installing .NET Core 3.0 preview to work with Visual Studio Code (Mark Taylor)
Empty try with finally (Jiří Činčura)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Passing variables from stage to stage in Azure DevOps release (Donovan Brown)
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Modern Families: Blending Java and .NET Teams (Dormain Drewitz)
How modern collaboration tools enhance patient outcomes across healthcare (Emma Williams)
Triads… (Eric Gunnerson)
How Does Security Work in A Successful Enterprise DevOps Initiative? (Nigel Kersten)
Concepts of Compliant Data Encryption (Stephen Roughley)
Syncing a Fork of a GitHub Repository with Upstream (Steve Smith)
Highlights from Git 2.22 (Taylor Blau)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

A state management pattern for Ionic React with React Hooks (Max Lynch)
Futures, async, await: Threading in Flutter (Rap Payne)
Collapsing Toolbar in Flutter using Slivers and Custom Loading Indicators in Flutter with SpinKit — CheatSheet (Dane Mackier)
Getting started with Data and Auth using Microsoft App Center (Mike James)
Navigate Flutter Apps with Routes (Nick Randolph)
Serializing Your Object In Flutter (Tomer Ben-Rachel)
Quick-start Flutter for Web on Windows (Vaibhav Khulbe)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Elton Stoneman on Docker (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – Kubernetes Storage with Saad Ali (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 153: Building Machine Learning Robots! and App Center Distribution Enhancements And Auto Provisioning | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – Test Driven Meetings – Measuring Outputs and Side Effects (Jonathan Cutrell)
Weekly Dev Tips – Open Closed (Steve Smith)
TWC9: VS Code Updates, Microsoft and Oracle, GitHub Desktop 2.0, Xbox Body Wash and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Blazor in the cloud: Hosting a C# SPA app as a static website in Azure Storage | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
What modern web view controls are available for XAML Islands? | One Dev Question and What is the roadmap for XAML Islands? | One Dev Question and How can I give feedback about XAML Islands? | One Dev Question and What version of .NET Core and Framework should I target to use XAML Islands? | One Dev Question (Miguel Ramos)
How did you make keyboard input good on Windows Phone? | One Dev Question (Laura Butler)
Coding Blocks Podcast – The Pragmatic Programmer – Tracer Bullets and Prototyping (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Developer on Fire Episode 427 | Venkat Venkataramani – Valuing People (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #446 – An Interview with Pete Bevelacqua (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
AGL 106: Lifter Leadership with Paresh Shah (John Rouda)
Octopus 101 – Getting Started (Ryan Rousseau)

Community & Events

Microsoft hosts HL7 FHIR DevDays (Josh Mandel)
25 Excellent Things To Do In Philly, June 10-16 (Kelly Bucci)
Pride Month (Matt Cain)

Database

SQL SERVER – Script: Find Last System / Operating System Reboot or Restart Time and Free Video – SQL Server Performance Tuning Made Easy (Pinal Dave)
Azure Cosmos DB Intro (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

Collect SQL Server Index Usage Information for all Instances with PowerShell (Alejandro Cobar)

Miscellaneous

How to Experience Xbox Game Pass for PC (Ashley McKissick)
Stay In The Know, On The Go: Top Trello Mobile Tips, Tricks & Features (Britt Joiner)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2762 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-10 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2361 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: Building microservices through Event Driven Architecture, ASP.NET MVC5, and more! (Microsoft MVP Team)
F# Weekly #23, 2019 – WF & WCF for .Net Core & ML.NET 1.1 (Sergey Tihon)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #262 (Jakub Chodounsky)
GameDev News – June 7, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Reading Notes #382 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Alessandro Del Sole)

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