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Dew Drop – December 24, 2020 (#3346)

Dew Drop – December 17, 2020 (#3341)

Web & Cloud Development

A Quick Guide to React Login Options (Holger Schmitz)
Reasons to Learn React (Peter Kellner)
Blast Off with Blazor: Build a responsive image gallery (Dave Brock)
Creating a React Analytics Logging Library (Fabio Canache)
Download and Try the Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1 (Jean-Laurent de Morlhon)
Angular Role-Based Authorization with ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
How To Optimize Background Tasks Using Hangfire and ASP.NET Core (Sam Walpole)
Blazor and CSS Frameworks (Shaun C. Curtis)
RavenDB Node.JS / TypeScript client 5.0 released (Oren Eini)
Bot Framework Composer 1.3 is now available! (Gary Pretty)
Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage (Jimmy Bogard)
Pulumi: Announcing Cross-Language Enum Support (Komal Ali)
Securing a GraphQL endpoint (Nigel Sampson)
Google Cloud Functions Now Support .NET Core 3.1 (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Introducing the Ultimate UI for Uno Platform Preview and Introducing the Ultimate UI for WinUI Preview and Introducing the Ultimate UI for UWP Preview (Brian Lagunas)
Infragistics announces Uno Platform specific UI Controls (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

NHibernate Profiler & Entity Framework Profiler 6.0 RTMed! (Oren Eini)
Developing Python with Visual Studio (Julio Sampaio)
C# vs. F# (Urs Enzler)
.NET Has a Third-Party Software Problem (Matthew MacDonald)
Tutorial: Draw and Edit Annotations with LEADTOOLS .NET Image SDK (Zac Cole)

Design, Methodology & Testing

MSIX Windows Services (Horatiu Vladasel)
Data Deficient Messages (Steve Smith)
Adam Boswell’s three pillars of engineering leadership (Pluralsight)
Scaling a Monolith Horizontally (Derek Comartin)
Announcing Indigo.Design App Builder: Build Real Web Apps Blazing Fast in the Cloud (Jason Beres)
Reducing flaky builds by 18x (Jordan Raine)
New in TeamCity 2020.2: Python Build Runner (Marco Behler)
Actual Consent is more important than more standards for Consent (John Moehrke)
Adding approval workflow to your GitHub Action (Tim Heuer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Announcing gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud (Louis Wasserman & James Ward)
The regular joy of the Adafruit AdaBox Subscription and exploring IoT with the family (Scott Hanselman)
Building Interactive Ionic Apps with Gestures and Animations (Simon Grimm)
2020 Google Assistant developer Year in Review (Payam Shodjai)
Opening the Google Play Store for more car apps (Eric Bahna)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Akri, with Kate Goldenring (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Syntax Podcast – Serverless, Deno and TypeScript with Brian Leroux (Wes Bos)
Microsoft Stories podcast: episode 8 – Dimension Studio (Andy Trotman)
Web Rush Episode 114: Challenges and Solutions when using Svelte – Andrew Smith (John Papa)
RunAs Radio – DBA DevOps using Query Store with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Understanding Teams apps…”Hello, world!” for Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Ayca Bas & Tomomi Imura)
8 Bits with Carmen Crincoli! (Brandon Minnick)
Key benefits of integrating web applications into Microsoft Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Dan Wahlin & Burke Holland)
Design Details 377: Future-Proof Designer (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
Superconductive | Always know what to expect from your data | Tech Exceptions (Adi Polak, Abe Gong & James Campbell)
Learn Together – Developing apps for Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Developer)
Embedding your web app in Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Waldek Mastykarz & Barnam Bora)

Community & Events

Webinar – Xamarin, the best way to make NFC Apps (Maarten Balliauw)
Accessibility and Inclusion in the Swift Community and Diversity in Swift (The Diversity in Swift Work Group)
Meet the Developer: Introducing Marissa du Bois (DeveloperMedia)
Reconnect Series: Davide Benvegnu (MVP Award Team)
What’s New in TeamCity 2020.2 Webinar on January 19 (Yegor Naumov)

Database

NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL (Keshav Murthy)
SQL SERVER – Inserting sp_who2 Into a Table (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Media Sync: Organize Your Photos and Videos with PowerShell (n2501r)

Miscellaneous

COVID-19: Our approach to misleading vaccine information (Twitter Safety)
Microsoft Translator’s highlights of 2020 (Microsoft Translator Team)
Live Photos come to OneDrive (Paul Diamond)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – December 16, 2020 (#3340)

Web & Cloud Development

Speed Up Development with Automated Kubernetes Deployments (Tim Davis)
Tapping Native Controls in Kubernetes to Protect Your Cloud-Native Apps (Michael Foster)
Book Review: Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches 2nd Ed (Ian Stirk)
Introducing the Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) for Kubernetes cluster management (Craig Peters & Jack Francis)
Asynchronous JavaScript For Beginners (Devanshi Tank)
How React Updates State (Dmitri Pavlutin)
AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources (Jeff Barr)
Azure Kubernetes Service Replaces Docker with containerd (Mary Branscombe)
Azure Cost Management and Billing 2020 year in review (Michael Flanakin)
Understanding Prototype Chain And Inheritance in JavaScript (Mozilla Dev Network)
Why the Move to React (Thomas Moore)
Key Vault with the use of VBScript/Classic ASP (Matt Small)
DZone Refcard #249 – GraphGL Essentials (Vishwa Ratna)
How to Support .NET Core SameSite + OAuth Apps on Linux (Gergely Sinka)
Auth0 Introduces Adaptive MFA (Randy Nasson & Antonio Fuentes)
Node v14.15.2 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
Creating Table of Contents without Stylesheets (Bjoern Meyer)
Netflix Implements GraphQL Federation at Scale (Eran Stiller)
Running Headless Chrome Inside Adobe Cloud Manager Builds (John Mitchell)
Redirecting godoc.org requests to pkg.go.dev (Julie Qiu)
npm Release v7.2.0 (nlf)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Printing PDF Files in WPF—A Complete Guide (Deepak G)
Meet the New Telerik UI for Xamarin RichTextEditor Control (Dobrinka Yordanova)

Visual Studio & .NET

The proper usages of Exceptions in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Overloading Vs. Overriding in C# (Sam Walpole)
Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2020 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
.NET 5 Source Generators – MediatR – CQRS – OMG! (Tore Nestenius)
.NET OSS Docs With MarkdownSnippets (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Localize .NET applications with machine-translation (David Pine)
Catching Stack Overflow Exceptions (Mark Downie)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Statistical approaches for performance analysis (Andrey Akinshin)
Deployment Scripts for ARM Templates is now Generally Available and What-If for ARM Template deployments is now Generally Available (Alex Frankel)
Powerful updates to temporary interaction limits (Kat Fukui)
4 tips for writing cleaner code (Leomaris Reyes)
TeamCity 2020.2.1 is out (Maria Kudryavtseva)
Token authentication requirements for Git operations (Matthew Langlois)
The harms of assuming cultural knowledge in coding assignments (Pamela Fox)
Simple Ways to Make an Impact (Rani Zilpelwar)
Using GitHub Actions for Bulk Resolving (Tim Heuer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Executing Heavy Tasks Without Blocking the Main Thread on Flutter (Altynbek Usenbekov)
Further lessons learned building a Raspberry Pi cluster (Shawn Sesna)
What’s your MAD score? (Christopher Katsaros)
The year ahead for Surface Duo (Pete Kyriacou)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Developer Tea – Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life (Jonathan Cutrell)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 388 | Rollup of Microsoft Graph, Teams, SharePoint and Azure News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Asp.Net Monsters #200a: Conversations with Jon Galloway (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
8 Bits with Diego Rejtman! (Brandon Minnick)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 221 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

Angular Developer Survey 2020 Results (Minko Gechev)

Database

SQL SERVER – Representing sp_who2 with DMVs (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Use Different Versions of TypeScript in SPFx projects (Andrew Connell)
Pull on your SharePoint sweater backgrounds for Microsoft Teams (Wenvi Hidayat)
5 things you may not know about the free version of Microsoft Teams (MS Teams Team)
How to guide for custom Praises in Microsoft Teams (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

3 real-world examples of the impact and scale of low-code automation (Stephanie Whitaker)
Multi-Class Classification Using PyTorch: Defining a Network (James McCaffrey)
4 ways Microsoft 365 is improving the experience for Mac users (Bill Doll)
Update to the Developer Evangelism/Advocacy handbook almost complete (Chris Heilmann)
Microsoft starts rolling out native Microsoft 365 for Mac apps for Macs with M1 (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft Authenticator Gains Password Management and Autofill Capabilities (Paul Thurrott)

The Geek Shelf

Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling Earbuds (Bose) – Referral Link

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