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Dew Drop – December 30, 2020 (#3349)

The Geek Shelf

Elegant Objects (Volume 1) (Yegor Bugayenko) – Referral Link

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 7, 2020 (#3333)

Web & Cloud Development

Using A Top Of -1px To Observe Position Sticky Intersection Changes In Angular 11.0.3 (Ben Nadel)
ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Async File Uploads (Ricardo Peres)
Azure Communication Services – Building an experimental messaging solution (Abhijit Jana)
How To Install An ASP.NET Core In .NET 5 App On Ubuntu 20.04 (David Grace)
Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs (Dave Brock)
The Reason and ReasonReact world is quite confusing now that Reason is being rebranded as ReScript. (Dave Bush)
CSS Variables are cool (Leon Bambrick)
Next-Level React Performance (Leonardo Maldonado)
User Registration with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
Get Up and Running with Azure Synapse and Pulumi (Mikhail Shilkov)
Announcing the new Azure Service Bus Client Libraries (Richard Park)
Upcoming Changes to the Messenger API (Facebook Dev Team)
Getting Started with Go Programming (Manoj Debnath)
ESLint v7.15.0 released (ESLint Team)
Expanding the Vocabulary for Run in Postman Buttons (Kin Lane)
Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body (John Gathogo)
Working with the Microsoft Health Bot (Mike Gannotti)
npm Release v7.1.0 (Ruy Adorno)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Load idiom-specific Storyboard in Xamarin.iOS with MvvmCross (Denys Fiediaiev)
Xamarin.Forms – Open App Store or Play Store in XamarinApp (Delpin Susai Raj)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to MongoDB in C# – Part 1 (Rami Honig)
Use HashiCorp Vault C# Client with .NET Core (Yoko Hyakuna)
Design patterns in C# – The Proxy Pattern (Carmel Eve)
ADO.NET provider 7.10.0.0 for Firebird is ready (Jiří Činčura)
Distributed logging with Serilog, Elastic Search, and PostSharp (Gael Fraiteur)
Rethrowing your exceptions wrong in .NET could erase your stacktrace (Niels Swimberghe)
Add Configuration to a .Net Core Console Application (Paul Michaels)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile? and AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility and AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change (James Shore)
How I Think About My Career – Part One and How I Think About My Career – Part Two – Assessing My Position (Den Delimarsky)
New in TeamCity 2020.2: Agentless Build Steps (Marco Behler)
Branching tests (Mark Seemann)
Self-service runbooks for operations teams (Adrian Howchin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Short Unity tip: conditional compilation with custom preprocessor directives and Short Unity tip: keeping values changed in play mode (Joost van Schaik)
Build Stacks in Appflow (Matt Kremer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Emily Cooper on the ISTI STEM Challenge (David Giard)
Microsoft Stories podcast: episode 7 – Abbey Road (Andy Trotman)
Merge Conflict 231: No M1 Talk We Promise… (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Developer Tea – Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with GitOps | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
How did I become a Cloud Advocate? | One Dev Question and What is Machine Learning? | One Dev Question and What is Azure Machine Learning? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – The DDD Conferences! (Dan Clarke)
The Amp Hour #520 – Inductance and Stuff (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Serverless Chats Episode #78: Statefulness and Serverless with Rodric Rabbah (Jeremy Daly)
AGL 185: Average Joe with Shawn Livermore (John Rouda)
Loosely Coupled Show – Caching ProTip: DON’T. Caching is difficult (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
Revision Path – Malika Reid (Maurice Cherry)
OzcodeVSExtention FINAL (Ozcode Team)

Community & Events

On Inclusion (Shawn Wildermuth)
Your DevOps guide to GitHub Universe (Grace Madlinger)
Advent Of Code For Programmers (Sue Gee)
December Webinars & Remote Work Resources (Adam Schau)
A Note to the PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles (David Cassel)
Geek of the Week: Brightloom’s Jacqueline Nolis wrote the book on how to become a data scientist (Kurt Schlosser)
How an all-girls high school prepped this exec for the male-dominated field of software engineering (Lisa Stiffler)
Advent of Code 2020 (Mark Heath)

Database

How to Get SQL Server Info Using SERVERPROPERTY? (Mohamed El-Qassas)
SQL SERVER – Long Running Queries with Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB and multi region setup (Oren Eini)
How to Execute a PowerShell Script from an SSIS Package (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Host your next virtual party in Microsoft Teams with apps and screen sharing games (MS Teams Team)
Tasks in Teams mobile is rolling out to everyone (MS Planner Team)

PowerShell

How to Use PowerShell Calculated Properties (Russell Smith)
Monitor the Windows Event Logs and Performance Metrics with PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 11, EPR Quantum Key Distribution (Filip W.)
PowerToys 0.28 (pre-release) adds Video conference mute utility (Kunal Chowdhury)
Book excerpt: How activists must harness new technologies to change the world (Steve Davis)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core 3 and React: Hands-On full stack web development using ASP.NET Core, React, and TypeScript 3 (Carl Rippon) – Referral Link

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