async – Page 8 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 2, 2020 (#3209)

Top Links

The Next Chapter for NativeScript: nStudio (Rob Lauer)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Blazor and Web Assembly with Jeremy Likness (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Fiddler Everywhere v0.10 is Here! (Kamen Velikov)
Getting Started with the Motion Editor in Android Studio 4.0 (Rebecca Franks)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Currying to Pass Additional Data to React Event Handlers (Carl Rippon)
Customising the ASP.NET Core default UI without editing the PageModels (Andrew Lock)
React Error Handling And Reporting With Error Boundary And Sentry (Chidi Orji)
Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and MongoDB (Code Maze)
ASP.NET Core Hosting on IIS on Windows (Sanjay Modi)
Azure Maps Creator now available in preview (Roberto Lucchi)
Instagram Basic Display API (John Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Month – Code Snippets: Convert Xamarin.Forms ImageSource to Native Image (Alejandro Ruiz)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Subscriptions administrator feature updates (Caity Buschlen)
The danger of async/await and .Result in one picture (Konrad Kokosa)
How can I expand my thread’s stack at runtime? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

5 Ways Agile Can Help Your Remote Team Thrive (Deanna deBara)
Keep all your packages up to date with Dependabot (Alex Mullans)
Why Jenkins still continuously serves developers (Brad Johnson)
Give it to me straight (Eric Brechner)
Testing Dart packages with GitHub Actions (Ryan Edge)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

SVG-Path Animation in React Native (Nitish Prasad)
Flutter Design Patterns: 19 — Flyweight (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
Monitoring bees with a Raspberry Pi and BeeMonitor (Alex Bate)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Developing for Slow and Spotty Connections (Wes Bos)
Smashing Podcast Episode 17 With Angie Byron: What’s New In Drupal 9? (Drew McLellan)
Episode 336 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones – A Shell of an Idea (Jonathan Walz)
Greg Leonardo Takes an Azure Deep Dive – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 91 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Real Talk JS Episode 86: React in the Enterprise with Gil Fink (John Papa)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – JavaScript is ready to get its own place (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
Asp.Net Monsters #167: Generating an Absolute URL in Razor Pages (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
No Dogma Podcast#143 – Dylan Beattie, Tech Conferences in a Time of Coronavirus (Bryan Hogan)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 146 – Infra as Code using Pulumi with Joe Duffy (John Callaway)

Community & Events

The 13th Annual Regular Expression Day – June 1st 2020 (Ben Nadel)
Becoming a Remote Worker – End of Week 11 (Adam Storr)
We’ve Got Work to Do (Mitchell Baker)
Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves (Tom Warren)

Database

SQL SERVER – Rows Sampled – sys.dm_db_stats_properties (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Using the Microsoft Graph Explorer (Brian Culver)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3005 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-06-02 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #22) (Michael Eaton)
Top 15 AI Articles You Should Read This Month – May 2020 (rubikscode)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Dew Drop – May 14, 2020 (#3197)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Announcing Adobe XD support for Flutter (Tim Sneath)
The anatomy of async iterators (aka await, foreach, yield) (Marc Gravell)
Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor (Jon Galloway)

Web & Cloud Development

Use the `prefers-reduced-motion` media query to toggle CSS and JavaScript animations (Elijah Manor)
App Service is now an events publisher on Azure Event Grid (in preview) (Azure Team)
What is Azure Front Door? (Andy Wahr)
What’s New in the Kendo UI Angular Components with R2 2020 (Carl Bergenhem)
Securing an Angular application using Azure B2C (Damien Bowden)
Styling Components In React (Shedrack Akintayo)
Unit Testing the HttpContext in Controllers (Ricardo Peres)
Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud (Liam Tung)
Scheduling GitHub Pages Posts for Future Dates (Jason Gaylord)
Reducing Magic Strings with Microsoft Feature Toggles (Microsoft.FeatureManagement) (Jason Roberts)
VMware to Acquire Octarine to Boost Kubernetes Runtime Security (Joab Jackson)
Telerik UI for Blazor: 40+ Native Components with Telerik R2 2020 Release! (Maria Veledinova)
Call for Review: DOM Review Draft — Published 18 June 2019 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

iOS and macOS Dark Mode Dynamic Colors Overview (Gerald Versluis)
Shell Quick Tip – Passing Data When Navigating (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

More fun with comments (Matt Lacey)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Branching Patterns: Hotfix Branch and Branching Patterns: Release Train (Martin Fowler)
3 Reasons You Should Have Designers in Your Agile Teams (Maddie Schneck)
Whiteboarding for Developers: Yes, You Have To (Chris Gustafson)
Why use DTOs (Data Transfer Objects)? (Derek Comartin)
Stop Being Awkward: 6 Tips For Better Video Meetings (Emily Whitten)
Building End-to-End Diagnostics: Activity and Span Correlation (Jimmy Bogard)
Measuring your way to failure: Thinking beyond your model metrics before deployment (Jose Medina Gomez)
Tabs vs. Spaces (Kenneth Reilly)
TeamCity 2020.1 RC is out (Maria Kudryavtseva)
Ensuring backwards compatibility in distributed systems (Michael Pratt)
How To Automate Tasks And Other Mundane Stuff – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
How To Be More Organized When Working From Home (See Girl Work)
Never use the same value for two IDs (or other values) in your tests (Steve Smith)
4 Skills Women Can Focus On To Foster Leadership (Morgen Henderson)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – What’s New in Javascript (Wes Bos)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Data – w Rick Krohn, Principal, HealthSense (Allscripts Healthcare)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 359 | Github Codespaces, NFL Teams Teams, and the News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
The CSS Podcast 010: Flexbox (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson episode 2005 | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
The Shiproom: Leadership amid rapid transformation (Jared Lambert)

Community & Events

What It Means to be a Software Engineer (Joseph Guadagno)
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack (Natalie Qabazard)
MVPs Unite To Share Microsoft Teams Expertise (MVP Award Team)
Philly Authors’ Favorite Local Books to Add to Your Reading List (Shannon Wink)

Database

SQL Server Index Basics (Eric Blinn)
SQL Server Management Studio Keyboard Shortcuts (Greg Robidoux)
SQL SERVER 2019 – Memory-Optimized TempDB and RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE Wait Type (Pinal Dave)
Complex data analysis with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Parameter Sniffing, Embedding, and the RECOMPILE Options (Paul White)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Configure Content Type Hub in SharePoint 2019 (Mohamed El-Qassas)

PowerShell

PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.19.0 has been released (Jim Truher)

Miscellaneous

Writing technical articles: Defining your ideal reader (Rachel Andrew)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19628 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Distribution Channel Discovery: Who Is Where? (ContentLab IO)
Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS (Tommy Jensen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew 2993 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-05-14 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Testing JavaScript Applications (Lucas da Costa) – Referral Link

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Adventures in Technical Editing – Three Recent Packt Book Review Projects

2019 was a busy year for me, as evidenced by the relative inactivity on my other blogs:

One of the activities that limited my 2019 blogging time was serving as a technical reviewer for three different .NET related books from Packt Publishing. All three of these books were released in the last few weeks.

Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

This book, written by Shakti Tanwar, is intended for experienced .NET developers who want to build a deep understanding of parallel and async programming with C# and .NET Core. Most of the concepts here apply just as well to .NET Framework developers, so I wouldn’t shy away from this one if you’re not using .NET Core in your projects.

I use async/await, the TPL and parallel programming concepts quite a bit in my daily work, and I still learned quite a bit from this book. I definitely recommend it if you want to build some degree of parallelism into your applications.

Learn ASP.NET Core 3

The 2nd edition book, written by Kenneth Yamikani Fukizi, Jason De Oliveira, and Michel Bruchet, details what you need to get up to speed with .NET Core 3, ASP.NET Core 3 and Entity Framework Core to build modern web applications while leveraging Microsoft Azure along the way.

The authors touch on a little bit of Blazor, one of today’s hottest .NET topics, and give some great advice for building, testing and deploying web applications with ASP.NET Core 3. If you’re familiar with .NET and ready to get into ASP.NET Core, this Packt book provides some good foundations.

C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure

This second edition book by Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, and Jas Rademeyer is written in a fun & useful format. Each chapter is a stand-alone project that drills down into an aspect of C# and/or .NET Core development, and all of the code can is available to readers to try for themselves.

Readers will learn things like Entity Framework Core, rich UWP app development, Azure Functions, ASP.NET Core, and lots more. Some chapters will be useful to any developer, but the majority of the topics here will be most useful to devs with some .NET experience. I like this one and have recommended it to the developers on my team.

Wrapping Up

Let me know what you think of these books. Have you read any of them? What is on your reading list for 2020?

Happy learning!