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Dew Drop – December 31, 2020 (#3350)

Top Links

Create serverless applications learning path (Microsoft Learn)
End-of-2020 Updates – Learn WinUI 3 and TechBash 2021 (Me)
Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021 (Mary Jo Foley)
Visual Basic Source Generators Samples (Currently in Preview) (Cory Smith – via Kathleen Dollard)
.NET Rocks! – Geek Out 2020 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web & Cloud Development

IntersectionObserver API Performance: Many vs. Shared In Angular 11.0.5 (Ben Nadel)
Container components with Angular (Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen)
Analyze And Monitor Azure Spending and Cost Alert In Azure (Mahesh Chand)
Fix Blazor WebAssembly PWA integrity checks (Niels Swimberghe)
PhpStorm 2020.3.1 is Available with Support for Apple Silicon (Roman Pronskiy)
Rate Limiting Googlebot Across Many Websites (Steve Fenton)
GoLand 2020.3.1 Is Out! (Ekaterina Zharova)
Favorite Query Service Tricks in Adobe Experience Platform (Part 4) (Jaemi Bremner)
Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia (Olimpiu Pop)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How Do I Debug on a Real Android Device Using Xamarin for Visual Studio? (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

#Net5 – Migrating a fully functional Windows Form app to Net 5 in 10 minutes ! (Bruno Capuano)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Play Software as a Team Sport (Aaron Stannard)
Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics (Martin Hinshelwood)
Adding Markdown Linting to my Blog’s Build Process with GitHub Actions and markdownlint (Sean Killeen)
TeamCity integration with .NET, Part 3: Deploying projects (Maria Kudryavtseva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Implement Effective Pagination in the Flutter ListView in Just 4 Steps! (Balasubramani Sundaram)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Validating Navigation in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Focusing on people interactions over Agile Retrospective formats | Daniel Lenhart (Vasco Duarte)
ID10T Podcast – Matthew McConaughey (Chris Hardwick)
Rocket 313: Best and Worst Tech of 2020 (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Everything and Nothing Episode 3 – Saving the Planet (Rob Tiffany)

Community & Events

Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2020 (Elise Hollowed)
Reconnect Series: Aaron Nelson (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Jan. 4-10 (Visit Philly)

Database

SQL Server Copy Table Options (Garry Bargsley)
How to Write Secure SQL Common Table Expressions (Nickolas Fisher)
Building a Scalable E-Commerce Data Model (James Hickey)

SharePoint & MS Teams

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2020 (Mark Kashman)

Miscellaneous

Substack is the new Medium (Ryan Hayes)

More Link Collections

Year in Review: The Most Viewed Docker Blog Posts of 2020 Part 2 (Michelle Lazzar)
A Look Back at 2020: Roundup of Codrops Resources (Team Codrops)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core in Action (2nd Edition) (MEAP) (Andrew Lock) – Referral Link – Half off today (12/31/2020) only, along with everything else on Manning.com!

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 – November 27, 2020 (#3327)

Top Links

Announcing Azure Mobile Apps v4.2.0 for .NET (Adrian Hall)
.NET Rocks! – Hello World the Film with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Understanding the difference between null and undefined in Azure Cosmos DB (Tim Sander)
Announcing Microsoft Q&A for .NET (James Montemagno)
Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!) (Andrew Stellman)
Everything from .NET Conf 2020: Sessions, Demos, & More! (Jayme Singleton)

Web & Cloud Development

Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub (Azure Team)
Inline Images with ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
Four More Powerful JavaScript Operators You’ve Never Heard Of (Anthony Jimenez)
Back to Basics: Creating a clickable card interface in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
Use Azure Functions, Azure Storage blobs, and Cosmos DB to copy images from public URLs (Dave Brock)
WebStorm 2020.3 Release Candidate Is Here! and WebStorm 2020.2.4 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
PhpStorm 2020.2.4 is released and PhpStorm 2020.3 RC (Roman Pronskiy)
AbortController in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
Consuming SOAP APIs In .NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Electron 11 Adds Silicon Support (Kay Ewbank)
Custom validation class attributes (Jimmy Engstrom)
Playing with promises and concurrency in TypeScript (Javier Toledo)
Developers Guide to AI (Lee Stott)
Pulumi Import: Generate IaC for Existing Cloud Resources (Paul Stack)
Watch out for .NET Core Runtime Bitness for IIS Installs (Rick Strahl)
Refactoring by Breaking Functions Apart: a TypeScript Experiment (Vincenzo Chianese)
ARM Templates Or HashiCorp Terraform – What Should I Use? (Zachary Deptawa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

GitHub Actions and Cake for TinyMvvm (Daniel Hindrikes)
Background distance-based location updates on iOS (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

Getting Started With Entity Framework Core 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Install .NET Core Apps on Linux in 5 Minutes (Gergely Sinka)
Keep Up To Date With Microsoft’s .NET Live TV (Nikos Vaggalis)
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Now Generally Available (Bruno Couriol)
What’s new and what changed in the 2.0 version of our Firely .NET SDK? (Ewout Kramer)
Why .NET Diagnostics Expert is not just yet-another-online-course? (Konrad Kokosa)
Major changes to the FHIR Client in Firely .NET SDK 2.0 (Marten Smits)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Surviving Black Friday: Or designing for failure (Oren Eini)
Advanced Installer 17.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
Custom Test Automation Framework: Plugin Architecture in MSTest (Anton Angelov)
Outbox Pattern: Reliably Save State & Publish Events (Derek Comartin)
The ultimate guide to preparing great retrospectives (Paulo Caroli)
Working with Git Branches! (Sarah Lean)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Trick to see if your iOS app can be installed on the Apple Silicon Macs (The First Prototype)
IoT Unravelled Part 4: Making it All Work for Humans and IoT Unravelled Part 5: Practical Use Case Videos (Troy Hunt)
Rider for Unreal Engine 2020.3 Preview (Anastasia Kazakova)
Real-time style transfer in Unity using deep neural networks (Thomas Deliot)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Frameworks vs Libraries × Debugging × CSS Modules vs Styled Components × Resumes × Stress Management × More! (Wes Bos)
Herding Code 243: Shawn Wildermuth on his new film, Hello World (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
Hanselminutes – A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove (Scott Hanselman)
React Podcast 120: Tyler Mcginnis on ui.dev and Early React (Michael Chan)
Real Talk JS Episode 111: IOU Some IoT with Diana Rodriguez (John Papa)
Rocket 308: We Salute the Algorithm (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
Logz.io | Stop wasting your time with Old-School Logging | Tech Exceptions (Golnaz Alibeigi)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph Connectors with Raju Nagalinga S (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Talk Python to Me #292 – Pythonic identity (auth in Python ecosystem) (Michael Kennedy)
Build fantastic documentation using GitBook and Automated Tests with Respawn – NDC Sydney 2020 Ask Me Anything! with Jimmy Bogard (SSW TV)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments (Ben Popper)

Community & Events

Five Open Source Projects We’re Thankful For In 2020 (Lee Brandt)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Nov. 30 – Dec. 6 (Visit Philly)

Database

SQL SERVER – Query Shortcuts and Efficiency Trick – Query Shortcut – SQL in Sixty Seconds #143 (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database – Greatest and Least TSQL (Arun Sirpal)
Cancel Azure SQL Database Import or Export operation (Yochanan Rachamim)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to create O365 Group sites with Teams using Graph API. (SPDev Support)
How to add polls to Teams meetings (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 296 – How to work with Azure Cosmos DB with PowerShell (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous

Beeb, how do you build the world’s first public service voice assistant? (Ben Ryon)
Six tips to make the most out of Microsoft To Do on your Android device (Shilpa Rana)
Info-gating Principles: Content Gating Best Practices (DeveloperMedia)
What’s It Like to Simulate the Next Cascades Volcanic Eruption? (Erik Klemetti)
How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager (Gergely Orosz)
Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV (msmash)
Bob Woodward’s favorite reads of 2020 (Vannessa Cronin)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3121 and The Morning Brew #3122 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #636 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers: Leverage your Python knowledge to quickly learn JavaScript and advance your web development career (Sonyl Nagale) – Referral Link