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Dew Drop – April 5, 2021 (#3416)

Top Links

Dapr v1.1.0 is now available (Dapr Team)
TechBash 2021 Call for Speakers Now Open! (Jason Gaylord)
Ted Neward on Development Leadership – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 135 (Jeffrey Palermo)
It’s official: Microsoft Build will be May 25 to 27 (Mary Jo Foley)

Web & Cloud Development

Managing Orchard Core Secrets in Azure Key Vault (David Hayden)
Blazor Power BI Paginated Reports (Michael Washington)
Creating Verifiable credentials in ASP.NET Core for decentralized identities using Trinsic (Damien Bowden)
AWS SDK for .NET version 1 has reached the end of support (Irene Kors)
Creating Blazor Material Navigation Menu (Marinko Spasojevic)
Microsoft Graph Fundamentals learning path – Module 2 (Luise Freese)
Deploying an Azure Function App with Bicep (Mark Heath)
Why Chrome’s Developer Console Sometimes Lies (Matthew MacDonald)
Service Bus Batching and Pre-Fetch (Paul Michaels)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms Country Picker with Rg.Plugins.Popup (Bohdan Benetskyi)
RunSafe Tasks / Commands wrapper in Xamarin (Luis Matos)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #3 (Sam Basu)

Visual Studio & .NET

Design, Methodology & Testing

Cars Island – DevOps practices for the application built on Azure – part 14 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
I don’t have time- why it’s a lie, and how to find more (Shantel Gascoigne)
A Humongous Roundup Of The 10 Trello Team Playbooks (Emily Whitten)
Activity is not impact (Eric Brechner)
How Do You Overcome “We Have Always Done It This Way”? (Grant Fritchey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Short Unity / HoloLens tip: change package name before deploying (Joost van Schaik)
How to Solve “Unable to find git in your PATH” On Flutter ?? (Somyarajsinh Jadeja)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Flutter State Management Made Easy | BMI App (MTechViral)
Merge Conflict 248: Satisfying Business Requirements (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Can I create a Nuxt.js website for free? | One Dev Question and What are the benefits of deploying Nuxt.js and Azure Functions together? | One Dev Question and Can I deploy my Nuxt.js website on Azure static web apps? | One Dev Question and How do single page applications differ from static sites? | One Dev Question (Debbie O’Brien)
Building a balancing robot with Azure Sphere | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
ID10T Podcast – Alan Tudyk Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Complete Developer Podcast – State Machines (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Yet Another Podcast – Jon Galloway on Visual Studio Mac (Jesse Liberty)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Scrum Master two teams, and survive! | Susannah Chambers (Vasco Duarte)
Serverless Chats Episode #95: Going Serverless with IBM Cloud Code Engine with Jason McGee (Jeremy Daly)
Talk Python to Me #310 – AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Michael (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Imagine Cup 2021 – Who Will Be World Champions? (Lucy Black)

Database

SQL Azure – Install Module Fails with Error (Pinal Dave)
SQL SELECT DISTINCT Examples (John Miner)

SharePoint & MS Teams

New release: SharePointDsc v4.6 is here! (Yorick Kuijs)

Miscellaneous

Python 3.9.3 and 3.8.9 are now available (Łukasz Langa)
Microsoft pushes back ‘full’ Redmond campus reopening to September 7 (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

.NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-05 (Dan Rigby)
C# Digest Issue #357 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #14, 2021 – Free F# Deep Dives eBook (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #468 (Frank Boucher)
The .NET Stacks #43: DateTime might be seeing other people (Dave Brock)
The Overflow #67: Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive technology forward (Medi Gwosdz & Cassidy Williams)
.NET News Roundup – Week of March 29th, 2021 (Arthur Casals)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.04.02 (Zachary Deptawa)

The Geek Shelf

Angular Development with TypeScript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 1, 2021 (#3391)

Top Links

Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge – 30 Days to Learn It (Microsoft Developer)
Top 5 things to get the most out of Microsoft Ignite (Rick Claus)
Breaking a Developer Ecosystem by Changing a Namespace (Nick Randolph)
Internals of the POH (Maoni Stephens)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure REST APIs with Insomnia (Jon Gallant)
Sandboxing Docker Containers (Chris Parkerson)
Using Azure AD groups authorization in ASP.NET Core for an Azure Blob Storage (Damien Bowden)
Add Real-Time Video, Voice, and Chat to Your App with Azure Communication Services (Dan Wahlin)
Controlled access to Cars Island ASP .NET Core API with Azure API Management – part 9 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Using Azure Text to Speech (Jamie Maguire)
Canceling HTTP Requests in ASP.NET Core with CancellationToken (Marinko Spasojevic)
How to deploy Blazor WebAssembly to Heroku (Niels Swimberghe)
Deferred Messages in Azure Service Bus (Paul Michaels)
How to Customize the UI of the Angular Query Builder (Satheeskumar S)
Getting local domain claims through ADFS 2.0 (Kevin Logan)
ESLint v7.21.0 released (ESLint Team)
When is a document not a Document but still a document? (John Moehrke)
A FHIR-Native Analytics Approach Redux — Python (Steve Munini)
How to make your code blocks accessible on your website (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 Is Out (Almir Vuk)
ReSharper C++ 2021.1 EAP: Updates to Unreal Engine Support, and New Code Inspections (Elvira Mustafina)
Diablo IV: Debugging Linux in Visual Studio (Erik Costlow)
Remote Debug Support in Visual Studio 2019 (Lisbeth Cardoso Guerra)
Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg (Augustin Popa)
A couple ways I test my .NET APIs (Grant Hair)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Random Forest (Nikola M. Zivkovic)
Refactoring with reflection (Michał Białecki)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Roadmaps (James Shore)
Agile improvements toward #FHIR (John Moehrke)
Gathering Data for Zero Trust (Anton Chuvakin)
How And Why Leaders Should Prioritize Wellness Within Their Remote Teams (D Sharma)
Pros and cons of the code-markup hybrid approach (David Oliver)
Tried everything? – Methodical debugging (Matt Lacey)
3 Reasons to Enable Debugging in Production (Rami Honig)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Considerations for selecting fonts during iOS & Android development (The First Prototype)
Unity WebGL + PlayFab Authorization in 20 Minutes (Nick Gamb)
Unlocking New Possibilities in the Mixed Reality Space (Amara Anigbo)
the New XR SDK Pipeline with HoloLens 2: A Walkthrough (James Ashley)
Build a User Signup Counter with Arduino, Part 1 (Stephanie Chamblee)
Exceptions, Errors and asserts in Dart (Suragch)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S15:E4 – What is Node.js and when might you use it (Danielle Adams) (CodeNewbie Team)
GCast 105: Analyzing a Video with Azure Media Services and Technology & Friends – Christos Matskas on Microsoft Identity Platform (David Giard)
Merge Conflict 243: Lessons Learned – 3 Years of FuGet (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Autoscale applications on Kubernetes with Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Recorded Presentation: ASP.NET MVC for Absolute Beginners – Your Secret Decoder Ring (Jeremy Clark)
Developer Perspectives Episode 1 | Ginny Caughey and Kunal Kushwaha (Windows Developer Team)
The Work Item S02E05 – Building Communities with Jess Lee (Den Delimarsky & Courtny Cotten)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Specialize or Bounce Around? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Kentico Kontent Headless CMS and JAMStack – with Matt Nield (Dan Clarke)
The Amp Hour #532 – Recalling Recalls (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 242 (Jason Bock)
On Prem To The Cloud: Lift and Shift (Ep 2) (Jay Gordon)
Serverless Chats Episode #90: Full-Stack Observability with the New Relic Explorer with Buddy Brewer (Jeremy Daly)
Smart Cities Ontology for Digital Twins | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch, Miriam Berhane Russom & Gert De Tant)
Azure Podcast Episode 367 – Enterprise Scale Landing Zones (Sujit D’Mello)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 448: Matt Arbesfeld Starting Your Own Software Company (Adam Conrad)

Community & Events

Windows & Devices at Microsoft Ignite 2021: March edition (Heather Poulsen)
“I feel like the first draft pick for Microsoft in Atlanta.” (Cornelius Parker)
Microsoft .NET Conf: Focus on Windows (Arthur Casals)
Microsoft Ignite Schedule Builder Now Available (Jason Gaylord)
Join Surface at Microsoft Ignite March 2-4, 2021! (Jenn Marescalco)
Get to know the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador community (MS Student Developer Team)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, March 1-7 (Visit Philly)

Database

Tip: How to set the default connected database and color in SSMS (Jason Gaylord)
SQL SERVER – Speed Up Index Rebuild with SORT IN TEMPDB (Pinal Dave)
Azure Arc Enabled SQL Managed Instance High Availability (Vin Yu)
How efficient is RavenDB? (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to create, manage and assign Microsoft Teams team Template policies (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Leveraging XML with New Employee PowerShell Scripts (Sam Turner)
Getting Yesterday’s Date (Thomas Lee)

Miscellaneous

2021 Tech Predictions (Ted Neward)
Microsoft co-founder CEO Bill Gates explains why he keeps using Android phones (Laurent Giret)
Releasing My Wilder Minds Courses for Free (Shawn Wildermuth)
So you want to start reading comics? (Julia Alexander)
Here’s what’s happening with the Firefox Nightly logo (Melissa Thermidor)
Const generics MVP hits beta! (The Rust const generics project group)
CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.6 (Waldek Mastykarz)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3180 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-01 (Dan Rigby)
Friday Five: SharePoint Spaces In Teams, And More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
C# Digest Issue #352 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #9, 2021 – .NET Conf Focus on Windows (Sergey Tihon)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.02.26 (Steven Murawski)
Code Maze Weekly #66 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Blogs that I read (scooletz)
The .NET Stacks #38: I hope you like announcements (Dave Brock)
Reading List 272 (Bruce Lawson)
The Overflow #61: I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer (Medi Madelen Gwosdz & Cassidy Williams)
This Week in Programming: Static Types for Python? (Mike Melanson)
C++ Annotated: February 2021 (Anastasia Kazakova)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming (Stephen Cleary) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 22, 2021 (#3386)

Top Links

Free eBook: How to use Dapr for .NET Developers (Scott Hanselman)
My Favorite C# Features – Part 1: Strong-types, Implicit-types, Anonymous-types, and Target-types (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Announcing the .NET Foundation Speakers Directory (Shawn Wildermuth)
Experimenting with .NET 5 and 6 using Docker containers (Elton Stoneman)
CoreWCF 0.1.0 GA Release (Matt Connew)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazor Basics (Ilyana Smith)
Building and auto-deploying an ASP.NET Core application – Part 3 – Dealing with change (Imar Spaanjaaars)
Build and Deploy to Azure Static Web Apps with Stackbit (Anthony Chu)
Adding Electronic and Digital Signatures to Documents in C# and Angular (Bjoern Meyer)
Use CSS Variables instead of React Context (Chris Coyier)
Cars Island Azure Functions – integration with Microsoft Graph SDK and Azure AD B2C – part 8 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
An Angular Application Architecture That Works (Dave Bush)
Localization in Angular Application using Angular Locale (Debasis Saha)
Troubleshooting App Services in Azure (Gregor Suttie)
When it’s not the fault of CSS (Julian M. Bucknall)
Why and When to use Azure Functions (Mahesh Chand)
ASP.NET Performance: 9 Types of Tools You Need to Know! (Matt Watson)
How to deploy Blazor WebAssembly to AWS Amplify (Niels Swimberghe)
Creating a Running Game in VueJS – Part 4 – The Finish Line (Paul Michaels)
Set start URL in ASP.NET Core – Quick & Easy ways (Sanjay Modi)
How to build a lightweight microblogging site with Contentful, vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Salma)
React Props Cheatsheet: 10 Patterns You Should Know (Reed Barger)
Introducing Stringlifier (Tiberiu Boros, Andrei Cotaie & Kumar Vikramjeet)
Keep your secrets secure, by default (Alex Mullans)
Sending WhatsApp Notifications with Templates: Initiate Messages to Your Users (Ashley Boucher)
Boosting WebAssembly Performance with SIMD and Multi-Threading (Bruno Couriol)
Concurrency in modern programming languages: TypeScript on Deno (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Your first interactions with your FHIR server (Frank Olthuijsen)
Porting versus interop for .NET – WebAssembly to the rescue? (Mark Heath)
Switching from OAuth to GitHub App (Montana Mendy)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Replicating Food Delivery UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Using ImageSharp in your WinUI – Uno Cross Platform App (Nick Randolph)
A Total Win with the Brand New Telerik Ribbon for WinUI (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
How can I prevent a Windows Runtime WebView from loading any content beyond the initial request and its redirects? (Raymond Chen)
Using the C#/Win32 code generator to enhance your WinUI 3 app (Morten Nielsen)
Little Tips: What you should do with ImageResourceExtension (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

ICYMI C# 8 New Features: Simplify Array Access and Range Code (Jason Roberts)
Rider 2020.3.3 and ReSharper Tools 2020.3.3 Have Landed! (Alexander Kurakin)
Function Composition in F# with Unfriendly Functions (Ian Russell)
Writing Sparkly Abbot Skills With C# (Phil Haack)
Design Patterns Explained with Food In C# (Nikos Vaggalis)
.NET – My Workflow Pattern (Cody Merritt Anhorn)
Getting .NET 6 (Joe Mayo)
Performance Profiling – .NET Object Allocation Tracking (Mark Downie)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Guide to Decision Trees (Nikola M. Zivkovic)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Trust (James Shore)
How To Get a PAT (Personal Access Token) for Azure DevOps from the az cli (Dylan Berry)
Setting up an Android phone as a WebPageTest agent (Robin Osborne)
Best practices for a secure software supply chain | NuGet (Jon Douglas)
Five Ways to Improve Your Personal Productivity as a Developer (Aleksandrina Vasileva)
Online Development IDEs You Can Access Anywhere and Repl.it: An Online Editor for Coding or Learning (Brad Jones)
Most Common QA Myths (Dilruba Malik)
Load Testing is the Most Expensive Effort You Will Regret Not Doing (Keith W. Boone)
How To Successfully Manage A Hybrid Model Team (Kat Boogaard)
OKRs – Intro (Santosh Hari)
The Art of Exploratory Testing (Sanjugtha Shoba)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Integrating video streaming with Flutter using Mux (Souvik Biswas)
Splunk AR: HoloLens and Unity SDK (Jesse Chor)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S15:E3 – How to build an app from idea to maintenance (Kyle Lee) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer Tea – Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp – Part One (Jonathan Cutrell)
OnPodcast Episode 22: Chat with Microsoft MVP Richard Hay, Windows 10 21H1, new Journal app & more (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
Merge Conflict 242: Mac Backups, Store Promotion, & Multi-Window Apps with SceneDelegate (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
C# with CSharpFritz S2 E6 – Build for the Live Web with SignalR and C# with CSharpFritz – S2 E7 – Introducing Authentication and Authorization with ASP.NET Core (Jeff Fritz)
Harini Kannan on React Native – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 129 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Talk Python to Me #304 – asyncio all the things with Omnilib (Michael Kennedy)
Managing Azure from your phone with the Azure mobile app | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Meeting our team members where they are, a key lesson for Scrum Masters | Helen Garcia (Vasco Duarte)
Serverless Chats Episode #89: Serverless in a DevOps World with Sarjeel Yusuf (Jeremy Daly)
DBAle 29: Guess the State of Database DevOps in 2021 (Chris Kerswell & Chris Unwin)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Modern Management insights and tips | Johanna Rothman (Vasco Duarte)
Ladybug Podcast – Getting Started With The Cloud (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, Emma Bostian & Sidney Buckner)
The Changelog – JS is an occasionally functional language (Eric Normand, Jerod Santo & Kevin Ball)
UI Breakfast Episode 207: Scheduling & Calendar Design with Derrick Reimer (Jane Portman & Derrick Reimer)
Ask the Expert: Rust at Microsoft (Melanie McKenna)

Community & Events

Dev Discussions: Cecil Phillip (Dave Brock)
Python Turns 30. A Steering Council Member Reflects (EditorDavid)
Creative Cloud Developer Roundtable on February 24th and 25th (Ingo Eichel)
Decipher a universe of exciting possibilities (MS Student Developer Team)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Feb. 22-28 (Visit Philly)
Announcing: Azure Cosmos DB Conf, a free online developer event (Mark Brown)

Database

Lesson Learned #164: Why SQL Server Management Studio runs the query faster than my application (Jose Manuel Jurado)
SQL SERVER – Convert Date Time AT TIME ZONE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams or Zoom? A salesman offers his stunning verdict (Chris Matyszczyk)
A simple workflow to create a To Do task from Microsoft Teams messages (Loryan Strant)

PowerShell

Save and restore your mouse position with PowerShell (Donovan Brown)
How to Queue an Azure DevOps yaml Pipeline with Parameters from PowerShell (Dylan Berry)
Changing Drive Letters and Labels via PowerShell (Thomas Lee)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21318 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Python 3.9.2 and 3.8.8 are now available (Łukasz Langa)
Running x64 on Windows 10 ARM64: How the heck does that work? (Michael Niehaus)
Free Windows 10 development virtual machines for HyperV, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3175 (Chris Alcock)
Friday Five: Azure Cloud Services, ML Pipelines, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Code Maze Weekly #65 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 297 – 21st Feb 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
C# Digest Issue #351 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #8, 2021 – .NET 6 Preview 1 and a methodical approach to looking at F# compile times (Sergey Tihon)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.02.19 (Steven Murawski)
The .NET Stacks #37: When your private NuGet feed isn’t so private (Dave Brock)
Reading Notes #462 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Unity in Action: Multiplatform game development in C# (Joe Hocking) – Referral Link