teamcity – Page 22 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 28, 2021 (#3494)

Top Links

Welcome to the Community Toolkit! (Michael Hawker)
Dapr v1.3 is now available (Dapr Team)
Blazor Debugging Improvements in Rider 2021.2 (Rachel Appel)
Experimenting with Dart and Wasm (Michael Thomsen)
Learn F# this week with Free Events & Live Streams (James Montemagno)
Sponsorship Opportunities for TechBash 2021 (Jason Gaylord)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploring The Interplay Between HTML Entities And TextContent In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js (Alexander Dubovoy)
Getting Started with Serverless SignalR and Azure Functions (John Kilmister)
Bring Your Own Storage in Azure Web App (Kevin Li)
Better React Components with TypeScript Union Types (Paul Burgess)
Q&A with Jeff Hollan of Microsoft Regarding Azure Application Services on Kubernetes (Rags Srinivas)
Mocking modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) in Unit Tests (Trivikram Kamat)
Mastering Enums in TypeScript (Arnaud Leymet)
Building A GraphQL Server With Next.js API Routes (William Lyon)
Parse Redis-CLI Connection URI To Use With StackExchange.Redis (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
DocumentViewer 29.2 (29.0.302.500) Final Released (Bjoern Meyer)
The Future of Microservices? More Abstractions (Charles Humble)
Time to Embrace Escape Hatches on the Web Platform? (Dion Almaer)
How to Use fetch() with JSON (Dmitri Pavlutin)
7 Simple Tips for a High-Speed Webpage (Karthik Anandan)
Introducing the New Rule Builder in Fiddler Everywhere! (Simona Yaneva)

Visual Studio & .NET

What’s New in Visual Studio Code? (Gift Egwuenu)
How to create a standalone ConsoleLoggerProvider (Mike Hadlow)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Feature Parity (Martin Fowler)
Responsibility Abdication: The path to create flexible business system (Oren Eini)
Advanced Installer 18.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
A Fast Track to Stable Deployments Without Costly Test Maintenance: Test Studio R2 2021 (Asya Ivanova)
Manual Testing Vs. Automated Testing: Which One Is The Best Fit For You? (ITRex)
How To Hire And Onboard Remote Workers: The Trello Guide To Success (Kenza Moller)
TeamCity 2021.2 EAP is open (Maria Kudryavtseva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Accessing car hardware APIs in your app for cars (Madan Ankapura)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

SQL Server on Linux Storage Secrets | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Klee)
Flutter Essentials ft. Allen Wyma – JSJ 494 (Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 419 | New Dawn for SharePoint & Windows (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 033: Software Patents (Ben Nadel)
Benefits of .NET MAUI over Xamarin/Xamarin.Forms – Live Stream Highlights (James Montemagno)
Asp.Net Monsters #218 – Automated Accessibility Testing with Playwright + Axe (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
The CSS Podcast 052: counters and @counter-style (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 284 (Jason Bock)
MJFChat: Managing Windows in the Cloud with Windows 365 (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft Mechanics – Build and customize model-driven apps | Power Apps Studio Updates (Jeremy Chapman & Emma Cooper)
What got you into computers? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Introducing the Partner Innovation video series (Tony Shakib)

Community & Events

.NET Docs Show (Aug 2nd) – C-Sharpen Your Razor Skills (David Pine & Cam Soper)
Student Ambassador community voices: Advice (MS Student Developer Team)
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School (Mike Linksvayer)

Database

Azure Defender for SQL is now available on the SQL Virtual Machine blade. (Aditya Badramraju)
Setting up Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on Synology NAS (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
SQL YouTube Live – Performance Troubles – Execution Plans (Pinal Dave)
Brief Update on Marten V4 (Jeremy D. Miller)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams hits 250 million monthly active users milestone during pandemic (Brad Stephenson)
How to Deploy PnP Modern Search Web Parts v4 (Agnes Molnar)
Announcing General Availability of Safe Links for Microsoft Teams! (John Gruszczyk)
Tips and Tricks and Best Practices for Hybrid Meetings with Microsoft Teams and more (Scott Hanselman)

PowerShell

How To: Use Azure AD Powershell to Work With Extension Properties (User Attributes) (Sean Killeen)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rides Azure, cloud commercial revenue in strong Q4 (Larry Dignan)
ProcDump v10.1, RDCMan v2.82, Sigcheck v2.82 and Sysmon v13.23 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Microsoft: Component shortages not going away any time soon (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3283 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter Cookbook: Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart (Simone Alessandria & Brian Kayfitz) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 15, 2021 (#3485)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out! (Justin Johnson)
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 6 (Richard Lander)
As companies embrace hybrid work, a new era of hybrid computing emerges with Windows 365 (Athima Chansanchai)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 6 (Daniel Roth)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 6: Configure Conventions (Jeremy Likness)
Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 6 (David Ortinau)
Windows Terminal Preview 1.10 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure AD authentication for Application Insights and Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021 and Public preview: Azure Service Bus support for large messages and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 324 – How to be productive with GitHub Codespaces (Azure Team)
Using DS Server with Blazor (Bjoern Meyer)
Got Bots? 2: Making Bots with Azure Logic Apps (Chloe Condon)
What is a Promise in JavaScript? (Dmitri Pavlutin)
WebStorm 2021.2 Beta 2 Is Here (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now supports Go and TypeScript (Kyle Thomson)
Why Developers Should Learn Kubernetes (Steve Tidwell)
Thoughts on Microsoft, and Blazor and Blazor Server apps in MVC subfolders (Peter Kuhn)
Increasing HTTPS adoption (Shweta Panditrao, Devon O’Brien & Emily Stark)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Xamarin Forms: Close applications programmatically (András Tóth)
Introducing RadScheduler for WinUI: Plan Long Ahead (Martin Ivanov)
Bluetooth and Windows 11 (Peter Freeman Foot)

Visual Studio & .NET

Developing a terraform provider in C#, for Windows (Oren Eini)
ICYMI C# 9 New Features: Reduce Boilerplate Constructor Code with Init Only Property Setters (Jason Roberts)
.NET July 2021 Updates – 5.0.8 and 3.1.17 (Rahul Bhandari)
VS2022 Readiness Update (Serge Baranovsky)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Add version info to your builds in TeamCity (Peter Kuhn)
New Future of Work: How developer collaboration and productivity are changing in a hybrid work model (Alyssa Hughes)
Leadership Tip #10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team (Johanna Rothman)
Made to measure: Sustainability commitment progress and updates (Lucas Joppa)
Accelerating Developer Velocity with Time-Travel Debugging (Rami Honig)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 12 Beta 3 and final APIs (Dave Burke)
Android 12 Beta 3 for TV is now available (Wolfram Klein)
Learn the Internet of Things with “IoT for Beginners” and Raspberry Pi (Ashley Whittaker)
Introducing the New Overlay Hooks for Ionic React (Ely Lucas)
Best vs code extensions for Mobile devs (Md Sadab Wasim)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – React 18 – A Look Ahead (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – The Mixed Reality Toolkit with Catherine Diaz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 031: To The Cloud, But Why? (Ben Nadel)
C# with CSharpFritz – Windows Forms and the MVP Design Pattern for Unit Testing (Jeff Fritz)
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 – Overview (Mads Kristensen)
Azure Podcast – Episode 385 – Cloud Native apps in Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
.NET MAUI Preview 6 Incoming! And… Exciting Xamarin Community Toolkit News? (Gerald Versluis)
Goodbye Twitter Fleets, or… Good job, Twitter Product Managers? (Den Delimarsky)
Design Details 404: Visual Design and Craft ft. Justin Stahl (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
Complete Developer Podcast – Enneagram Type 7: The Enthusiast (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 228: Predicting Application Problems with Database Metrics (Carlos L. Chacon)
Web Rush Episode 142: Sketch Notes in Tech with David Neal (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Microsoft Mechanics – Windows 365, your Cloud PC | What it is, how it works, and how to set it up (Jeremy Chapman & Scott Manchester)

Community & Events

Docker Captain Take 5 – Lucas Santos (William Quiviger)
Reconnect Series: Andy Grogan (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Microsoft Inspire 2021: Unveiling more opportunity for partners (Nick Parker)
Kicking off Microsoft Inspire 2021: our commitment to your success (Rodney Clark)
Welcome to the Windows 365 Tech Community! (Scott Manchester)

Database

Know your options for SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 End of Support (Debbi Lyons & Vijay Kumar)
SQL SERVER – Finding Queries Using Particular Index (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint / M365 / MS Teams

From collaborative apps in Microsoft Teams to Cloud PC—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 at Inspire (Jared Spataro)
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is now in public preview (Jon Maunder)
Introducing a new era of hybrid personal computing: the Windows 365 Cloud PC (Wangui McKelvey)
Get started with Windows 365 (Christiaan Brinkhoff)

PowerShell / Terminal

How Warp Works (Aloke Desai)
The terminal is on life support. Is it worth saving? (Zach Lloyd)

Miscellaneous

Goodbye, Fleets (Ilya Brown)
Understanding BERT with Hugging Face – Using BERT and Hugging Face to Create a Question Answer Model (Exxact Team)
Getting started with… Python (Ryan Donovan)
Solving Advent of Code Puzzles in Idiomatic Kotlin (Svetlana Isakova)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3274 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks: Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques (Will Fuqua) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – June 10, 2021 (#3462)

Top Links

Bringing Visio to Microsoft 365: Diagramming for everyone (Seth Patton)
Azure static web apps CLI, building apps locally (Chris Noring)
.NET Rocks! – Event Sourcing with Jeremy Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Build more accessible Angular apps (Emma Twersky)
Low Ceremony, High Value: A Tour of Minimal APIs in .NET 6 (Dave Brock)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 319 – How to create custom handlers for Azure Functions (Azure Team)
Integrating Swagger With Web API .NET Core Using Entity Framework (Anant Vernekar)
What’s new with .NET on Azure Functions – June 2021 (Anthony Chu)
Integration Testing for ASP.NET Core using EF Core Cosmos with XUnit and Azure DevOps (Damien Bowden)
JavaScript Numeric Separators (David Walsh)
Volume Management, Compose v2, Skipping Updates, and more in Docker Desktop 3.4 (Dieu Cao)
Meet :has, A Native CSS Parent Selector (And More) (Adrian Bece)
Async Streaming with EF Core and ASP.NET Core 6 (Jonathan Allen)
Going Beyond ESLint: An Overview of Static Analysis in JavaScript (Karl Hughes)
Bringing “docker scan” to Linux (Marina Kvitnitsky)
Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service (Rob Pearson)
Useful Visual Studio Extensions for Working with Blazor (Lauren Del Signore)
Testing GraphQL Queries with Apollo Client (Adhithi Ravichandran)
Don’t Print Your Documents! Streamlined Document Processes in Your Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
How to Use go:embed in Go 1.16 (Florin Pățan)
Blazorise v0.9.3 – patch 8 release notes (Mladen Macanović)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Xamarin.Forms – Working with UI Tests (Delpin Susai Raj)

Visual Studio & .NET

Spicy C# projects (Szymon Kulec)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Safety (James Shore)
STOP doing dogmatic Domain Driven Design (Derek Comartin)
Using low-code tools to iterate products faster (Karl Hughes)
Simple Steps for Improving Your IDE Performance (Anton Yalyshev)
Tracing: Why Logs Aren’t Enough to Debug Your Microservices (Michael Haberman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 12 Beta 2 Update (Dave Burke)
How Mashreq bank is using React Native for Windows to bring new digital experiences to Windows (Matteo Pagani)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 110: Renaming Projects and Folders in a Visual Studio Solution (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – GCP with Liz Fong-Jones (Jeff Meyerson)
Advisor Clinic: Upgrade your Azure Virtual Machines to premium disks | Azure Enablement (David Blank-Edelman & Travis Maier)
Feature flags with .NET and Azure App Configuration | On .NET (Christos Matskas & Scott Addie)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 026: Passwords (Ben Nadel)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 226: SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension (Carlos L. Chacon)
On .NET Episode: Setting up Observability in Orleans with Rich Lander & Reuben Bond (Cecil L. Phillip)
8 Bits with Cecil Phillip! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
Complete Developer Podcast – Database Migrations (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 59 – Automating Database Management Part 3 – Schema Suggestions with Julia Oppenheim (Michael Lynn, & Nic Raboy)
The Law of Jam 16 – Explicit and implicit knowledge (Viktor Cessan & Esther Derby)

Community & Events

CI/CD in the Cloud with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy: June 30 Webinar (Yegor Naumov)
Our annual report: ‘Racial Equity Initiative: Strengthening Our Communities’ (Fred Humphries)
The Power of a Purpose-Driven Career: Insights from Women Leaders in Government (Mary Kaye Vavasour)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Daniel Gomez Jaramillo (MS Student Developer Team)
Ex-Microsoft leaders raise $5.1M from GitHub co-founder, ex-Snowflake CEO for new startup Aserto (Taylor Soper)
Discover the Black History Keepers of Philadelphia (Visit Philly)

Database

Format SQL Server Dates with FORMAT Function (Daniel Calbimonte)
Announcing SSIS Framework Manager, v1 (Andy Leonard)
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early June 2021 (Azure Team)
How to Upgrade SQL Server Management Studio and Azure Data Studio (Manvendra Singh)
Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – SQL in Sixty Seconds #173 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to create Task from a message in Teams (Out of the Box version) (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

Use PnP PowerShell to add a document library webpart to a page (and only show a specific folder) (Marijn Somers)

Miscellaneous

It’s time to ditch Chrome (Kate O’Flaherty)
Vivaldi 4.0 Arrives with Betas of Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader (Paul Thurrott)
The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 8: Bit shifting and bitfield access (Raymond Chen)
Become a better writer with these five extensions for Firefox (Scott DeVaney)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3249 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-10 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter for Beginners: An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2 (Alessandro Biessek) – Referral Link