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Dew Drop – December 21, 2020 (#3343)

Top Links

Technology & Friends – David Neal on Hand Drawn Illustrations for Powerful Storytelling (David Giard)
How to make DevOps your competitive advantage (Erica Anderson)
Maddy Leger on Xamarin in a .NET 5 World – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 120 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Upgrading Old C# to C# 9: Init Only Setters (Eric Potter)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes 1.20: Pod Impersonation and Short-lived Volumes in CSI Drivers (Shihang Zhang)
TypeScript: JavaScript with Safe Types (Brad Jones)
Simplifying Auth With Static Web Apps and React (Aaron Powell)
Docker Hub Experimental CLI tool (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
What Makes CSS Hard To Master (Chris Coyier)
Infrastructure as code in Azure with Octopus Deploy and Pulumi: Part one (Michael Levan)
Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) in MongoDB with Golang (Nic Raboy)
Learn about ghapi, a new third-party Python client for the GitHub API (Hamel Husain)
Interacting with JavaScript Objects using the new IJSObjectReference in Blazor (Niels Swimberghe)
Using Managed Identity With Azure KeyVault (Paul Michaels)
PhpStorm 2020.3.1 Preview (Roman Pronskiy)
Blazor Server – How To Store Encrypted Session Data In The Browser (Sean Franklin)
Exploring Blazor Component Rendering (Shaun C. Curtis)
Introducing Individual NuGet Packages for Syncfusion Blazor UI Components (Ajith R)
ESLint v7.16.0 released (ESLint Team)
Announcing DS Server Public Beta: Your On-Premise Document Services Cloud (Bjoern Meyer)
Introduction to Web Assembly with C/C++: Part 1 (j2inet)
npm Release v7.3.0 (Darcy Clarke)
WebAssembly/Rust Tutorial: Pitch-perfect Audio Processing (Peter Suggate)
Redis Cluster – Benefits of Sharding and How It Works (Tugberk Ugurlu)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Some Points to Consider Before Implementing a UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Use WebAuthn in C# (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
Get Through the Year with These Visual Studio Code Holiday Themes (David Ramel)
C# .NET The most common flaw type in .NET applications was information leakage (Mark Pahulje)
Build a Recommendation engine with ML.NET and F# (Riccardo Terrell)
The State of .NET: Q&A Compilation (Galina Jordanowa)
Nullable reference types; CSharp’s very own strictNullChecks (Johnny Reilly)
What is New in .NET 5 (Sam Walpole)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Get Git Part 4 (Jesse Liberty)
Failure Is Always An Option (Johanna Rothman)
Jira upgrade for the Jenkins project (Mark Waite)
What Are Leaky Abstractions? (An Illustrated Guide) (Young Coder)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Best Practices for Building Offline Apps (Canaan Merchant)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S14:E7 – What is .NET and why is it useful (Maria Nagagga) (CodeNewbie Team)
Merge Conflict 233: Bluetooth is Mind-blowing! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
no dogma podcast #149 – Todd Gardner, The Importance of JavaScript (Bryan Hogan)
Loosely Coupled Show – AsyncAPI with Fran Méndez (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
ID10T Podcast – Chris Columbus (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog – You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Into the Octoverse (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Asp.Net Monsters #200b – Conversations with Julie Lerman (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
Complete Developer Podcast – Surprises When Becoming A Team Lead (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 210: The Elephant in the Room (Carlos L. Chacon)
What is MSAL + Microsoft.Identity.Web | On .NET (Christos Matskas & Kyle Marsh)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Identity with Christos Matskas (Dan Clarke)
The Amp Hour #522 – High Current Power Supplies with Fredrik Kensander (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
UI Breakfast Episode 200: The Power of Branding with Dennis Field (Jane Portman & Dennis Field)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 222 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #80: Revolutionary Serverless at re:Invent with Ajay Nair (Jeremy Daly)
AGL 187: Own Your Culture with Brett Putter (John Rouda)
Talk Python to Me #295 – GIS + Python (Michael Kennedy)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 439: JP Aumasson on Cryptography (Justin Beyer)

Community & Events

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2021: Calling All Speakers! (Mike Kanakos)
Year of the Nurse and Midwife: Wrapping up 2020 (Claire Bonaci)
Happy anniversary GitHub Security Lab! (Jamie Cool)
Empowering—Dona Sarkar’s passion for upskilling people around the world (Nancy Tandy)
What’s On & Online in Philly This Holiday Week & Weekend, Dec. 21-27 and Top Things to Do in Philly the Week of New Year’s, Dec. 28 – Jan. 3 (Visit Philly)

Database

SQL SERVER – Attach an In-Memory Database with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.1 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to use Pop out apps in Teams (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

How to Push Data via PowerShell to PowerBI (Adam Bertram)

Miscellaneous

Guidance for partners on recent nation-state cyberattacks (MS Partner Network Team)
New Community and Q&A Insights now available in Yammer (Sameer Sitaram)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3138 (Chris Alcock)
Friday Five: Xamarin Essentials, Auto ML In Azure, More! (MVP Award Team)
The Overflow #52: The semantic future of the web (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Code Maze Weekly #56 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #342 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 290 – 19th Dec 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)
F# Weekly #51, Rider 2020.3 & FsLab (Sergey Tihon)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.12.18 (Zachary Deptawa)
Reading List 268 (Bruce Lawson)
The .NET Stacks #30: See ya, 2020 (Dave Brock)

The Geek Shelf

Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella H. Meadows & Diana Wright) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 18, 2020 (#3342)

Top Links

Participate in the Developer Economics Survey (Windows Dev Team)
.NET Foundation November/December 2020 Update (Claire Novotny)
Getting Started with Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
Build dual-screen Cordova apps for Microsoft Surface Duo (Craig Dunn)
No cookie for you (Nat Friedman)

Web & Cloud Development

Debug JavaScript in Mobile Safari (iOS) in 8 easy steps (Stuart Ashworth)
Best JavaScript Unit Testing Tools (Pam Selle)
Use the MVVM Design Pattern in MVC Core: Part 3 (Paul D. Sheriff)
Node v14.15.3 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
How to Compile Rust into WebAssembly and Run it in Deno (Chinedu Imoh)
Docking Proteins to Deny Disease: Computational Considerations for Simulating Protein-Ligand Interaction (Exxact Team)
Go on ARM and Beyond (Russ Cox)
Accelerate and simplify Scikit-learn model inference with ONNX Runtime (Xavier Dupre & Olivier Grisel)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Three ways to Fix broken Icon Font in Xamarin App (Bohdan Benetskyi)
Going dark; easily implementing dark mode in your Xamarin.Forms app (Steven Thewissen)
Uno Platform 2021 Roadmap Survey (Uno Platform Team)
Control rendering order in UWP Grid using Canvas.ZIndex (Martin Zikmund)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 Covariant Return Types (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Efficient file uploads with dotnet (Josef Ottosson)
F# Basics – Result (Reed Copsey)
.NET 5 Breaking Changes for WPF/Windows Forms (Jonathan Allen)
.NET On QA (Nikos Vaggalis)
Rider 2020.2.5: Support for Big Sur (Asia Rudenko)
On the ways of finding a dispatcher for the current thread in the Windows Runtime (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Building a System Where Agile Can Thrive (LeadingAgile)
Commits are shapshots, not diffs (Derrick Stolee)
What is “creative” coding, anyway? (Pamela Fox)
CLI Guidelines Aim to Help You Write Better CLI Programs (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

#Coding4Fun – #RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree sync with #MicrosoftTeams (1/N) Why? Why not ! (Bruno Capuano)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Building eBay’s Web API ecosystem with Tanya Vlahovic (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 123: Cassidy Williams on Dreams and Disasters in 2020 (Michael Chan)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Adventures in Javascriptlandia (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Improved XAML Data Binding Diagnostics | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
CppCast – SerenityOS with Andreas Kling (Rob Irving)
Rocket 311: Leadership! (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
David Prosser from ComUnity | Source Code: Real Stories from Startup Founders (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Cameron Tomisser & jorgievision)
RunAs Radio – The Impact of the Pandemic on IT with Stephen Rose (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
UX Podcast #252 – Toxic dogmatism (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Software Defined Talk Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Azure Podcast Episode 358 – Cloud Identity in the Cloud Era (Sujit D’Mello)
Xamarin Podcast Episode 84: American Airlines (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

Our plans to relaunch verification and what’s next (Twitter)
Catch up with 2020’s .NET community webinars (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

VMware Tanzu SQL Relational Database-on-Demand Enhances MySQL for Developer Productivity and Enterprise Readiness (Judy Wang)
SQL SERVER – Attach a Database with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
Understanding how to query arrays in Azure Cosmos DB (Tim Sander)
SQL Tools December release recap (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)

SharePoint & MS Teams

4 ways to deliver better meetings with apps in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams Team)
Cozy up in one of three Microsoft Lists sweater backgrounds for Microsoft Teams (Ben Truelove)

PowerShell

How to Copy Active Directory Groups from One User to Another with PowerShell (Russell Smith)

Miscellaneous

We Downloaded 10,000,000 Jupyter Notebooks From Github – This Is What We Learned (Alena Guzharina)
Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future (Alexis Hagen)
Microsoft says it identified 40+ victims of the SolarWinds hack (Catalin Cimpanu)
The new and improved Developer Advocacy Handbook is out – Read Chapters 1 & 2 now (Chris Heilmann)
A breakthrough year for passwordless technology (Lauren Goodwin)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3137 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #641 (Mary Lou)

The Geek Shelf

Grilled Cheese & Beer: Recipes for the Finer Things in Life (Kevin VanBlarcum & James Edward Davis) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 16, 2020 (#3340)

Top Links

Stay current with in-demand skills through free certification renewals (Alex Payne)
Unit testing and mocking with Azure SDK .NET (Pavel Krymets)
Game of Life in Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
Playing with C#9 Top-level Programs, Records and Elasticsearch.NET (Steve Gordon)

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)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3135 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-16 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling Earbuds (Bose) – Referral Link