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Dew Drop – December 23, 2019 (#3098)

Top Links

Microsoft Graph Toolkit offers new Tools and Updates! (Elise Yang)
Service Worker Development Best Practices (Chris Love)
Getting Started with Flutter Desktop (Kenneth Reilly)
Machine Learning on Windows : Installing tooling and setting up an environment (Carey Payette)

Web & Cloud Development

On let vs const and What Is JavaScript Made Of? (Dan Abramov)
Azure Advent Calendar video – Azure CLI and Cloudshell (Dan Clarke)
Parameters in Azure Data Factory (Catherine Wilhelmsen)
How to Install Angular on Windows: A Guide to Angular CLI, Node.js, and Build Tools (Ahmed Bouchefra)
How to Validate Angular Template-Driven Forms (Ankit Sharma)
Integration Testing with ASP.NET Core 3.1 – Swapping a Dependency with Moq (Adam Storr)
Configuring ASP.NET and IIS for Larger Requests (Bjoern Meyer)
Azure Advent Calendar (Jamie Maguire)
Improved File Sharing in Docker Desktop for Windows Enhances Developer Experience (Matt Campbell)
Distributed Fractal Image processing with Akka.Net Clustering and Docker (S. Riccardo)
V8 JavaScript Engine 8.0 Reduces Heap by 40%, Adds Optional Chaining and Null Coalescing (Sergio De Simone)
No Panic! Vue.js + Google Maps + Firebase + Nexmo SMS + Deployment! (HANDS ON STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL) (Super Diana)
Client Side Blazor Authentication Using Azure AD and a Custom AuthenticationStateProvider (Michael Washington)
ECMAScript proposal: Promise.any() and ECMAScript proposal: String.prototype.replaceAll and Feature watch: ECMAScript 2020 (Axel Rauschmayer)
ESLint v6.8.0 released (ESLint Team)
Creating a Checkbox Like it’s 2020 (Alyssa Nicoll)
Raw GraphQL Querying (Chris Coyier)
How to Build a Twitter bot using NodeJs (Deven)
Ember 3.15 “Octane” Released and Octane is Here (Ember Team)
Learning Progressive Web Apps Code Available (John M. Wargo)
Future Ready Blazor Application Architecture (S. Ravi Kumar)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Tips for building Xamarin Apple Watch apps as of December 2019 (Damian Mehers)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Strings with Ranges, and Indexes (Eric Potter)
The case of the mysterious curly bracket (Mark Seemann)
Dotfuscator 6.0 Beta: Entering the Next Era of Dotfuscator (Nathan Arthur)
Get OzCode Professional at 30% off thru 12/26 (OzCode) – Referral Link

Design, Methodology & Testing

One of my favorite testing/productivity tools: guard (Ben Halpern)
Product Goals, not Sprint Goals (Mahesh Krshnan)
Actionable Metrics to Make Work Visible and Improve Organizational Performance (Michael Szul)
The Bug That Got Away (Rion Williams)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Just Fake it: Development 101 for Android developer (Abhilash Das)
Ionic React Released (Dylan Schiemann)
How to Support Multiple Environments in your Mobile Application? (Nick Randolph)
Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Event Grid on IoT Edge (Eldert Grootenboer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Revision Path 326: Kendall Howse (Maurice Cherry)
Merge Conflict 181: Hacking The Holidays (James Montemagno)
All Hands on Tech Podcast 008 – Why you should (or shouldn’t) use React (Cory House)
All Hands on Tech Podcast 009 – High performance teams (Richard Harpur)
How to share data in place from Azure Data Explorer | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
How to Dynamically Insert & Remove Form Controls in Angular | ‘Tech Tips’ @ NDC Sydney 2019 (SSW TV)
An introduction to Azure FarmBeats at Microsoft Ignite 2019 (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Azure Podcast Episode 309 – Azure at Scale (Sujit D’Mello)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Maintainability (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 120 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #28: Amplifying Serverless with Nader Dabit (Jeremy Daly)
Yet Another Podcast – Shawn Wildermuth (Jesse Liberty)
AGL 135: Be a Startup Superstar with Steven Kahan (John Rouda)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – Balancing Multiple and Competing Money Goals (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Awesome Onboarding Experience | Flutter Library of the Week | EP-03 and Flutter For Web, Desktop Released | Getting Started Cocktail App (MTECHVIRAL)
Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 68 – Sudhanva Huruli on the Open Application Model (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community & Events

24 Amazing Things To Do In Philly, December 23-29 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

Create Tables in SQL Server with T-SQL (Gauri Mahajan)
Can Admin Rename SA Account in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #256 (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB Cloud now running on Google Cloud (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2019 (Marissa Salazar)

More Link Collections

.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-23 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2498 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: Introduction To ARM Templates, Setup your Github repository on Azure DevOps, and more! (MVP Award Team)
Reading Notes #405 (Frank Boucher)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.12.20 (Sasha Rosenbaum)
Code Maze Weekly #6 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #290 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #50, 2019 – F# Europe 2020 and great new releases (Sergey Tihon)
Reading List 245 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Flutter: Native, Cross-Platform Apps the Easy Way (Carmine Zaccagnino) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – December 19, 2019 (#3096)

Top Links

MSIX Core is now available!! (John Vintzel)
PostSharp internals: Handling C# 8.0 nullable reference types (Petr Hudeček)
Ask a Developer: Why Include Online Code Editors in Technical Content? (ContentLab IO)
Announcing the draft Security Baseline for Microsoft Edge version 79 (Forbes Higman)
Creating a Fabulous Xamarin app on a budget using F# Data (Mark Allibone)
Happy Holidays from the Windows Terminal Team! (Kayla Cinnamon)

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Web & Cloud Development

Build Components in JavaScript Without a Framework (Lee Brandt)
Unit Testing ASP.NET Core MVC Controllers with Moq and XUnit (Matthew Jones)
WebStorm 2019.3.1 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Understanding JavaScript Decorators (Mike Green)
Upgrading the Blazor HTML Table with FlexGrid (Alvaro Rivoir)
Build and Secure a GraphQL Server with Node.js (Roy Derks)
Power users rejoice: you’ve got SFTP and database access (Ian M.)
Speed thrills: Deliver lightning-fast apps to your users with Pivotal Cloud Cache 1.10 (Jagdish Mirani)
Kubernetes namespaces for beginners (Jessica Repka)
Building Microservices (Mark Heath)
WebSockets for fun and profit (Max Pekarsky)
Node v13.5.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
How to Perform CRUD Operations Using Blazor Preview 9 and Entity Framework Core 3.0 (Narayanasamy J)
Cloud native application-level identity and access control (Stephen Kuenzli)
The ultimate guide to secure cookies with web.config in .NET (Thomas Ardal)
Secure your Microservices (Xavier Canal, Lucas Ponce & Alissa Bonas)
ECMAScript proposal: top-level await (Axel Rauschmayer)
3 different ways to access constants in a Vue JS template (Karthik Chintala)
What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 (Bryan Robinson)
Kubernetes Monitoring Developer’s Guide (Dave Rael)
Countdown to The New Year – Ember Composable Helpers (Ember Team)
WebVR Part 5: Design and Implementation (Michael Cole)

Visual Studio & .NET

Use an Extension Method to Update All Items in a List (Srinath M S)
What’s New in dotTrace 2019.3 (Alexey Totin)
Debugging Linux CMake Projects with gdbserver (Erika Sweet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Give The Gift of a Tech Debt Sprint This Agile Holiday Season (Colby Fayock)
Deploy to Azure Directly From the Repository with GitHub Actions (Frank Boucher)
Enhancing collaboration and transparency within a product team (Anna Youngs)
How To Re-Gift Yourself Less Stress This Holiday Season (And Every Year To Come) (Leah Ryder)
The Designer’s Edge – An Overview of Photoshop Plugins (Micah Bowers)
The Ultimate List of Remote Work Resources (William Gant)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How to run a script at start-up on a Raspberry Pi using crontab (Alex Bate)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – State Machines, CSS and Animations with David K Piano (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Going Live on Containers with Michele Leroux Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 67: Azure Repos, Branches, and Pull Requests (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – No Code with Shawn Wang (Jeff Meyerson)
Flutter vs React Native vs Native in 2020 (MTECHVIRAL)
Introducing SandDance: Data Visualization in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – When Consumers Become Patients – w Dr. Chet Robson, Walgreens (Allscripts)
PPP 275 | Turning Stakeholders and Team Members Into Fans, with author David Meerman Scott (Andy Kaufman)
Complete Developer Podcast – Regex Demystified (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 185: DBATools in a Month of Lunches (Carlos L. Chacon)
Level-Up Engineering Episode 6 – Managing Distributed Developer Teams: Zenput’s Case Study (Coding Sans)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 393: Jay Kreps on Enterprise Integration Architecture with a Kafka Event Log (Robert Blumen)

Community & Events

The Essential Guide to New Year’s Day In Philadelphia 2020 (Candace Shelton)
Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Gerhard Lazu)
Top 8 Announcements from Flutter Interact (Muhammad Kamran)
How to write a book in just three months: With 17 MVPs and the help of Teams! (MVP Award Team)
Participate in the Developer Economics Survey (Windows Developer Team)

Database

SQL SERVER – Parameter Sniffing Simplest Example (Pinal Dave)
Merging documents in RavenDB with Map/Reduce (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

Speedy PowerShell Access to Office 365 Groups with Get-ExoRecipient (Tony Redmond)

Miscellaneous

How to debug inline Python code in Azure Data Explorer (Adi Eldar)
How is Java Doing? (Nikos Vaggalis)
Process Monitor v3.53, Process Explorer v16.31 (Mark Cook)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2899 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2496 (Mike Gunderloy)
Angular Weekly – Scully, an Angular static site generator, implement search-as-you-type & more (Andrey from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with TypeScript: Includes Introduction to Angular (Thomas Claudius Huber) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – December 3, 2019 (#3084)

Top Links

Introducing the AWS Toolkit for Rider (Matt Ellis)
Converting integration tests to .NET Core 3.0: Upgrading to ASP.NET Core 3.0 – Part 5 (Andrew Lock)
Investing Time in the Xamarin Linker for Smaller App Sizes (James Montemagno)
Exploring borrowed annotations in C# (Jared Parsons)

Web & Cloud Development

Mock AWS Services Using Postman Collections With Examples and gRPCs Potentially Fatal Weakness and We Will Not Discuss APIs Without A Postman Collection (Kin Lane)
ASP.NET Core with GitOps: Deploying Infrastructure as Code (Mircea Oprea)
ApiBoilerPlate: New Features and Improvements for Building ASP.NET Core 3 APIs (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Filtering in ASP.NET Core Web API (Vladimir Pecanac)
EventBridge Schema Registry — what it is and why it matters for Serverless applications (Alex DeBrie)
Kubernetes: Gardener Project Update (Rafael Franzke & Vasu Chandrasekhara)
Building Custom Input Components for Blazor using InputBase (Chris Sainty)
Announcing CrossGuard Preview (Erin Krengel)
Salvation Delivered by WebAssembly (Wasm) (Everett Griffiths)
Reducing the Cost of my Developer Workstation with Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub (Matt Cowger)
How to Make Secure HTTP Requests with Vue and Express (Holly Lloyd)
Pulumi 2.0 Roadmap (Joe Duffy)
How We’re Protecting Your Postman API Keys in GitHub (Michael Bettendorf)
Data Compression for Large-Scale Streaming Experimentation (Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao & Martin Tingley)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Create, Modify & Export Documents with WordsProcessing for Xamarin.Forms (Dobrinka Yordanova)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 (Bassam Alugili)
Announcing PostSharp 6.4: Support for .NET Core 3.0 and more (Lejla Rasic)

OzCode Black Friday sale extended thru Dec 5th! Get 50% off a Personal License with code BlackFriday19Alvin

Design, Methodology & Testing

Why Should You Give Unit Testing a Second Chance? (Coral Ifergan)
What to teach as the first programming language and why (Tomas Petricek)
Quality Begins With Code: 10 Ways to Reduce Software Bugs (Fahim Sachedina)
Modular Monolith: A Primer (Kamil Grzybek)
MSIX Core Coming to Windows 7 and 8.1 in December, Plus New Features on the Horizon (Russell Smith)
How to Give Constructive Criticism (Stephen Haunts)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Pre-order Code the Classics today! (Alex Bate)
New version of the Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile (François Daoust)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – New CSS Logical Properties (Wes Bos)
Stack Overflow Podcast: A Brief History of Black Software (Ben Popper)
Software Engineering Daily – Java 13 with Georges Saab (Jeff Meyerson)
The Monsters Weekly – Episode 141 – Getting started with Application Insights and ASP.NET Core (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
AiA 267: JavaScript Performance with Tammy Everts (Charles Max Wood)
MAS 100: My Angular Story Episode 100! (Aaron Frost & Charles Max Wood)
Understanding the Azure.Core library | On .NET (Cecil Phillip)
DevTalk 25: Developing with Xamarin.Forms with Almir Vuk (Kerry Lothrop)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 120 – From .NET Core 3.0 to .NET 5 w/ Scott Hunter (John Callaway)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 62 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Installing SQL Toolbelt with Chocolatey (Kendra Little)
All Hands on Tech Podcast 005 – Why human-centered design matters (Mariah Hay)
Learn About Serverless Workflows on SSW.tv (Aaron Powell)
JSJ 410: Iterating on Open Source (Aimee Knight, Steve Edwards, AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 115 (Jason Bock)
Real Talk JS Episode 61: Leading Technical Teams – Jules Kremer (John Papa)
Meta Cast Episode 154 – Keeping It Simple (Josh Anderson)
How Microsoft is Simplifying IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
Overview: Big Data Cluster Security | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)

Community & Events

December Xamarin and .NET Events (Jayme Singleton)
Announcing Syncfusion’s Xamarin Holiday Challenge (Prabakaran Ramasamy)
16 Festive Ways To Celebrate Hanukkah In Philadelphia (Candace Shelton)
“We are redefining the meaning of beauty to help kids grow up being comfortable in their own skin.” (Candace Whitney-Morris)
Eight Must-See Holiday Light Shows In Philadelphia For 2019 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

How to Restore Model Database in SQL Server (Daniel Farina)
Fastest way to Delete Large Number of Records in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER Tools I Use and Recommend (Updated: December 2019) (Pinal Dave)
Restore your Azure Database for MySQL server into a different Azure subscription, the right way (Parikshit Savjani)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams highlights you should know about post-Ignite 2019 (Aya Tange)

PowerShell

Step-by-Step: Managing Groups via Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module (Dishan Francis)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft: We’re creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding (Liam Tung)
Windows 10 Tip: Create new events from the taskbar (Athima Chansanchai)
Brave 1.0 Released to Improve Web Privacy (Dylan Schiemann)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2887 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-03 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2485 (Mike Gunderloy)
XamarinBites 29 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Up & Running Weekly – Kubernetes locally on Linux, running Elastic on K8s, KFServing & more (Denis from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin in Action: Creating native cross-platform mobile apps (Jim Bennett) – Referral Link

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