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Dew Drop – December 29, 2020 (#3348)

Top Links

Using C# Extension Methods for Auth0 Authentication (Andrea Chiarelli)
Technology & Friends – Ed Charbeneau on Blazor Testing (David Giard)
Security when Creating a OAuth Bearer Token in ASP.NET Core: OAuth Security – Part 3 and Client-side UI Events and Other Common Queries in Blazor (David Grace)
AzureFunBytes – Modernizing Your Apps With Containers (Jay Gordon)

Web & Cloud Development

Loading and replacing HTML parts with HTML (Michael Scharnagl)
DOM Parsing, Query Selectors, and JavaScript with AngleSharp (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Ultimate CSS Reference Guide (Alex Merced)
WebStorm 2020.3.1 is Available with Support for Apple Silicon (Ekaterina Prigara)
User Lockout Functionality with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
How to Deploy React Apps to Github (Teri Eyenike)
AsyncAPI and Postman Partner to Bring New Tooling to Asynchronous APIs (Eran Stiller)
What Is the Jamstack in 2021? (Brian Rinaldi)
Back to basics: adding a playback speed control to an audio player (Chris Heilmann)
Why Promises Are Faster Than setTimeout()? (Dmitri Pavlutin)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Replicating Christmas Shopping UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Why is the HSHELL_WINDOWDESTROYED notification raised when a window is hidden, even if it hasn’t been destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
How to Clean up a Messed up MP3 Library With Metatogger (Sean Killeen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Team-Level Agile Anti-Patterns – Why They Exist and What to Do about Them (Ben Linders)
Deploying TIBCO Rendezvous on RedHat Enterprise Linux using Azure DevOps (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
Versioning Multiple Micro-Services in a Monorepo using Maven (Dror Helper)
There is no place like production (Martin Hinshelwood)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s New in 2020 Volume 4: PDF Viewer Flutter (Ramkumar Ravy)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer (Wes Bos)
Smashing Podcast Episode 32: Review Of The Year 2020 (Drew McLellan)
Developer Tea – Imagining the End (Jonathan Cutrell)
Add a Header to the Flyout Menu in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Meta Cast Episode 183 – Charting Our Future (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Work Item (S01E19) – Den and Courtny Reflect On 2020 (Den Delimarsky)
South Africa: Microsoft Middle East & Africa – Interview with Julien Bertin | CodeStories (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Seth Juarez, Cameron Tomisser, Anna Soracco, Patty Nguyen & jorgievision)
Talk Python to Me #297 – Python year in review (2020 edition) (Michael Kennedy)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – It’s hard to get hacked worse than this (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 176 – REST APIs with Irina Scurtu (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Top C# Corner Authors Of Year 2020 (Praveen Moosad)

Database

Released: SQL Server Replication Management Pack (7.0.28.0) (Ebru Ersan)
SQL SERVER – sp_who2 Parameters (Pinal Dave)
Manual document revisions with RavenDB (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

Here’s the Top 10 Science Stories You Missed This Year (While You Were Distracted by COVID-19) (Anna Funk)
VW’s prototype robot is designed to offer full-service charging for electric vehicles (Kirsten Korosec)
Microsoft Edge Canary gets a new toolbar experience (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

Last Week in .NET, December 26th 2020 – Fun-sized Holiday Edition (George Stocker)
#DevDecember Week 5: It’s a (festive) wrap (Morgan Mitchell)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering TypeScript 3: Build enterprise-ready, industrial-strength web applications using TypeScript 3 and modern frameworks (3rd Ed) (Nathan Rozentals) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 14, 2020 (#3338)

Top Links

Announcing Project Reunion v0.1! (mevey)
Exploring Blazor Mobile Bindings (Sam Basu)
.NET Development on Apple Silicon (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Scott Hunter on .NET 5 – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 119 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Building a Code Analyzer for .NET (Tim Heuer)

Web & Cloud Development

Building a Food Store Using Kendo UI and Vue (Christian Nwamba)
Using multiple APIs in Blazor with Azure AD authentication (Damien Bowden)
Blast Off with Blazor: Integrate Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly (Dave Brock)
React.isValidElement (David Walsh)
It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes! Really? (Part 2) (Lee Briggs)
Kubernetes 1.20 is deprecating Docker Runtime: What does this mean? (Michael Levan)
The 3 CSS Methods for Adding Element Borders (Stephanie Eckles)
AsyncAPI and Postman (Kin Lane)
Introduction to Postman Scripts (Automation Bro)
Microsoft Open-Sources Fluid Framework for Distributed, Scalable, Real-Time Collaborative Web Apps (Bruno Couriol)
Building a Parser from scratch (Dmitry Soshnikov)
Json Web Tokens: A few Gotchas (Janani Subbiah)
6 Cloud Native Do’s and Don’ts for Developers (Klint Finley)
How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2) (Tejas Shikhare)
npm Release v7.1.2 (Darcy Clarke)
Sending a Service Bus Message Failed (Paul Michaels)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Replicating Bill Details UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

ReSharper 2020.3: Support for C# 9 and Source Generators, New Features in Inlay Hints, and Support for Avalonia UI (Asia Rudenko)
Dynamic Class Creation in C# – Preserving Type Safety in C# with Roslyn (Jose Manuel Redondo Lopez)
Making C# More Welcoming (Matt Eland)
.NET 5: An Introduction (Hannes Du Preez)
Thinking With Properties: Examining Where (Cameron Presley)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Using Azure Slots and GitHub for Personal Projects (Shawn Wildermuth)
Git pull, git push, git checkout branch, git delete local branch and so on. (Alex Sorokoletov)
What Makes a Good Remote Team? (Al Tenhundfeld)
A guide to making a good pull request and Implementing the page object pattern in UI tests (James Croft)
Multiple Short Feedback Loops Support Innovation (Johanna Rothman)
Template Round-Up: The Most Popular Trello Boards of 2020 (Jessica Webb)
TeamCity integration With .NET – Part 2: Testing and building projects (Maria Kudryavtseva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Ionic Framework Tutorial: Build your First Cross-Platform App (The Educative Team)
Build a virtual IoT Lab with Raspberry Pis and Azure IoT Hub (Jim Bennett)
Short Unity tip: apply changes made in the scene to a prefab (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Core Podcast – TDD and the Terminator with Layla Porter (Jamie Taylor)
How to REALLY use Microsoft Office: A Mail Merge with Word and Excel and printing Christmas Labels! (Scott Hanselman)
CodeNewbie S14:E6 – How to stay motivated and get your first job (Danny Thompson) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Kyle Bunting and Joel Hullen on Data Engineering in Azure (David Giard)
Merge Conflict 232: AirPods Max, Apple Fitness+, and AR/VR Indoor Cycling (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
10 Best Podcasts for Web Designers, Developers and Digital Professionals (Suzanne Scacca)
Closures in JavaScript: Video (Dhananjay Kumar)
Radical Candor S2, Ep.16 Navigating Emotional Reactions at Work (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Accelerating apps with Flutter – Apps, Games & Insights Episode 16 (Google)
CppCast – Virtual Teaching and Plenary with Patrice Roy (Rob Irving)
ID10T Podcast – Bryan Cranston #3 (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog – Coding without your hands (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #521 – Outdoor Laser Projection & Object Mapping with Daryl Tewksbury (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 220 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #79: What to do with your data in a serverless world with Angela Timofte (Jeremy Daly)
SQL Server Radio Episode 123 – Beware of the Parallel Plan (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
AGL 186: Critical Moments with Bill Coletti (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Successful COVID-19 vaccine delivery requires strong tech partnerships (Dr. David Rhew)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Dec. 14-20 (Visit Philly)

Database

SQL SERVER – 5 Recent Underperforming Videos – Dec 2020 (Pinal Dave)
SQL EXISTS vs IN vs JOIN Performance Comparison (Eric Blinn)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3133 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
The .NET Stacks #29: More on route-to-code and some Kubernetes news (Dave Brock)
Friday Five: Azure Durable Functions, Admin Center, More! (MVP Award Team)
Code Maze Weekly #55 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Weekly Notes – #41 (Miguel Bernard)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 289 – 12th Dec 2020 (Luce Carter)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.12.11 (Steven Murawski)
C# Digest Issue #341 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #50, F# Lexer, Parser, quick fixes and codegen (Sergey Tihon)
Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) – December 2020 update (Microsoft 365 PnP Team)
The Overflow #51: Finish your hobby project (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth (4th Ed) (Jon Skeet) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 7, 2020 (#3333)

Top Links

Blazor WebAssembly (client-side) with AOT and SkiaSharp (Uno Platform Team)
TeamCity integration with .NET, Part 1: New approach and demo (Maria Kudryavtseva)
Remote Debugging for Azure Functions Can Be a Breeze (Simon Timms)
C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 3: JSON serialization (Thomas Levesque)
Michael Hawker on the Windows Community – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 118 (Jeffrey Palermo)

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)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3128 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-07 (Dan Rigby)
Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) (Chris Pietschmann)
The .NET Stacks, #28: The future of MVC and themes of .NET 6 (Dave Brock)
Friday Five: Azure Sentinel, Power Automate, More! (MVP Award Team)
Code Maze Weekly #54 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Overflow #50: A CS degree from Big Tech (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Reading Notes #453 (Frank Boucher)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 288 – 5th Dec 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)
C# Digest Issue #340 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.12.04 (Steven Murawski)
F# Weekly #49, #FsAdvent and Fable 3 (Sergey Tihon)
Azure Advocate Weekly Round Up – Holidays are almost here! (Sean Boyer)
Weekly Notes – #40 (Miguel Bernard)

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