unit testing – Page 24 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 20, 2019 (#2983)

Top Links

New Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense in Visual Studio for Mac (Pierce Boggan)
Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 (Microsoft Edge Team)
Use Cloud Shell in Visual Studio Code (Thomas Maurer)
Best places to learn more about WinDbg (Andy Luhrs)

Web & Cloud Development

Support for ASP.NET Preview 6 and More in UI for Blazor 1.2.0 (Carl Bergenhem)
WebStorm 2019.2 EAP #4: new intentions for destructuring, commit from Local Changes tab (Ekaterina Prigara)
The PWA Starter (Chris Love)
Getting started with Docker for Windows (Joseph Flanigen & Bill Bevan)
Demystifying Azure App Services (K. Scott Allen)
Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement (Kubernetes Release Team)
Organizing My APIs Using OpenAPI Tags (Kin Lane)
Solving Cold-Start disturbs serverless’ definition and it’s okay (Maxime Rouiller)
Introducing the New Universal Login Experience (Andrew Akers)
Your First Look at GraphQL Queries, Mutations, and Subscriptions (Christian Nwamba)
Auth0 Adds ‘Sign In with Apple’ as Out-of-the-Box Integration (Jeana Tahnk)
Draggable Menu with Image Grid Previews (Mary Lou)
API Mindset at eBay (Tanya Vlahovic)
Is GraphQL the future of APIs? (Tomek Poniatowicz)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin Forms Visual: Unifying User Experience (Bas de Cort)
Reusing Xamarin.Forms StaticResources (Mikolaj Kieres)
Xamarin Camera Control Tutorial: Develop a Live Capture Barcode Reader, Part 1 (Nick Villalobos)

Visual Studio & .NET

NServiceBus 7.x & RavenDB 4.2 (Oren Eini)
C#.Net Import/Export CSV Library (Asma Khalid)
.NET Unit Testing: Spend Upfront to Save Later On (Nickolas Fisher)
Delegates as callback functions in C# (Karthik Chintala)
Office 365 dev tips – working effectively with the Microsoft Graph and other APIs (Chris O’Brien)
C# 8 Pattern Matching Enhancements (Jonathan Allen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Downsides of micro frontends (Martin Fowler)
Design Patterns: Strategy Pattern in Dart (Pawan Kumar)
Announcing Global Styleguides—connecting design systems to engineering (Zeplin Team)
Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes (Paul Ford)
(Not so) Stupid Question 325: Should I use test coverage & use thresholds to pass builds? (Iris Classon)
Data privacy next steps: Compliant Database DevOps (James Murtagh)
Clean Your Backlogs (Johanna Rothman)
How To Transition From Sitting to Standing at Work (Molly Struve)
Updates to GitHub Package Registry (Simina Pasat)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Tutorial: User Login and Registration in Ionic 4 (Matt Raible)
Migrating to MRTK2 – missing Singleton and 3DTextPrefab (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – SVGs with Sara Soueidan (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Messaging Pitfalls with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 53: Creating a Data Warehouse in Azure (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – WebAssembly Compilation with Till Schneidereit (Jeff Meyerson)
2019-06-07 (VOD) Create an Azure LogicApp to Generate a ReadingNotes Summary (Frank Boucher)
SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 44 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
The Changelog – Boldly going where no data tools have gone before (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Allscripts On Call Podcast – A Broader View of Blockchain – w Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger (Allscripts Healthcare)
Complete Developer Podcast – Creating A Community For Coders (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Five Things You Didn’t Know Python Could Do | Five Things (Burke Holland & Nina Zakharenko)
All About Rust in Real Life: Linkerd 2.0 | The Open Source Show (Golnaz Alibeigi, Lacey Butler, Allison Cordle & Anna Soracco)
SQL Server Radio – “I Really Want to Do It” Flags (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)

Community & Events

Want to See a More Diverse WordPress Contributor Community? So Do We. (Andrea Middleton)
A day in the life of… Jenni M (Senior UX / UI Designer) (Jenni Murtagh)
Microsoft Tech Community – 350,000 Members! (Christine Karambelas)
Reconnect Series: Thomas Ardal (MVP Award Program)
Game on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer (Laura LoPresti)
2019 Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamps (Office Platform Ecosystem Team)
Meet ContentLab IO: Introducing Lisa Sidlow, VP of Sales and Marketing (Yolanda Fintschenko)

Miscellaneous

Changes are coming for US Copyright – Should Developers Even Care? (Christy Hofffman)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18922 (Dona Sarkar)
First look: Inside Microsoft’s plan to reinvent its original Redmond campus (Nat Levy)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2770 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-20 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced .NET Debugging (Mario Hewardt & Patrick Dussud)

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Dew Drop – June 17, 2019 (#2981)

Top Links

Making a tiny .NET Core 3.0 entirely self-contained single executable (Scott Hanselman)
What’s New in ASP.NET Core 3 Preview 6 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java (Xiaokai He)
How to Upgrade to Typescript Without Anybody Noticing, Part 1 (Nathan Shively-Sanders)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 202 – Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning service with Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)
Getting rid of Time Zone issues within Azure Functions (Maxime Rouiller)
Adding a WebAssembly component to a React App (Andy Lee)
Simple Weather App on Vue.js (Alexandr Vlasenko)
Creating dynamic feature flags with feature filters: Adding feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
Azure Bastion: VM RDP & SSH Access within Azure Portal (Chris Pietschmann)
State Management in ASP.NET Core MVC (Code Maze)
WebStorm 2019.2 EAP #3: detect duplicate code, use Node.js version from .nvmrc (Ekaterina Prigara)
Unit Testing ASP.NET Core Web API using XUnit and FakeItEasy (Mitul Suthar)
PhpStorm and YouTrack: We Want Your Feedback (Roman Pronskiy)
C# Corner Author Posts Analytics With Angular 8 (Sarathlal Saseendran)
Docker Tools for Modernizing Traditional Applications (Steven Follis)
Add Authentication and Personalization to VuePress (David Neal)
Registering Services with DotNet Worker Project (Adam Storr)
There Is No Single Right Way To Do APIs (Kin Lane)
How to Use a Vue Area Chart UI Component in Your Web App (Alberta Williams)
Authentication in server-side Blazor applications (Gunnar Peipman)
Introducing k14s (Kubernetes Tools): Simple and Composable Tools for Application Deployment (Dmitriy Kalinin & Nima Kaviani)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

What Does It Take To Create A Custom WPF Control (John Ritchie)
Getting started with Local databases in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Organizing Xamarin.Forms StaticResources (Mikolaj Kieres)
Migrating Desktop Apps to Web? Tips for C# and WPF Developers Considering JavaScript Web Technologies (Marc Clifton)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Default Interface Methods Update (Jonathan Allen)
Working with C# StreamReader (Mahesh Chand)
Modernizing WCF Services with containers and Visual Studio (Shayne Boyer)
Visual Studio Themes (David Yardy)
Parsing HTML data with C# (Bruno Sonnino)
Why does SetFocus fail without telling me why? (Raymond Chen)
Scaling .NET Core apps with Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) (Tom Kerkhove)
Deoptimize Your Snapshots Now in Snapshot Debugger (Isaac Levin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Applying BDD acceptance criteria in user stories (Dennis Hee)
Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines: C#, ARM, and YAML: Part #3, resource groups and YAML templates (Jeremy Lindsay)
Bootstrapping Azure DevOps extensions with Yeoman (Matisse Hack)
A Process to Triage Work Items in Azure DevOps (TFS) (Michael Szul)
Turbocharging Azure DevOps with Octopus Deploy (Octopus Deploy)
Fluent Assertions – A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests (Dennis Doomen)
Sketch for Teams, Smart Layout and more announcements from Layers (Sketch Team)
Growing as a PM: Ideas (Den Delimarsky)
Time Management, Debunked: How To Be More Effortlessly Efficient At Everything (Deanna deBara)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova-Common Release (Chris Brody)
Build Premium Experiences for Kid Skills in the US (Preview) (Metty Fisseha)
Walk through Reality Composer (Mina Ashna)
Making Cross-platform Flutter Landing Page Responsive (Priyanka Tyagi)
Payments in Flutter with Square and NodeJS (Samarth Agarwal)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

GCast 52: Using hilite.me to Format Code as HTML (David Giard)
Flutter: Background Fetch | Run code in the background Android & iOS (MTechViral)
Software Engineering Daily – Render: High Level Cloud with Anurag Goel (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 154: Home Made IoT Lights (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – The Connection Between Imagination, Confidence and Performance (Jonathan Cutrell)
Talk Python to Me #216 – Digging into Visual Studio Code (Michael Kennedy)
TWC9: New Flight Simulator, WSL 2 for Insiders, Visual Studio Code Java Pack and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Troubleshoot resource property changes using Change History in Azure Policy | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
The Changelog – The state of CSS in 2019 (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Can you tell us any secrets about Windows Phone? | One Dev Question and How did you end up in Windows? | One Dev Question (Laura Butler)
.NET Core Show – Blazored with Chris Sainty (Jamie Taylor)
CppCast – Factorio with Michal Kovařík (Rob Irving)
NSScreencast #397 – Tip Calculator in SwiftUI (Ben Scheirman)
The Amp Hour #447 – Voltnuts for Flashlights (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
How much work does the GPU do depending on the stack you use? | One Dev Question (Mark Alcazar)
How does Windows 10 in S mode protect my device? | One Dev Question (Dana Huang)
Developer on Fire Episode 428 | Zayne Turner – Joyful Perspectives (Dave Rael)

Community & Events

Amazon Game Studios lays off ‘dozens’ of developers (Asher Madan)
A look back at the marvelous venues hosting MVP Attendee Parties over the years (Hal Hostetler)
MVP Vito Macina gives back to breast cancer sufferers through training program “Ricomincio da Me” (MVP Award Team)
25 Fantastic Things To Do In Philly, June 17-23 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

How Dirty or Clean is SQL SERVER’s Memory? – Interview Question of the Week #229 and SQL SERVER – Impact of CHECKPOINT and DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS on Memory (Pinal Dave)
Spatial enhancement in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Star-Tree Index: Powering Fast Aggregations on Pinot (Xiaotian (Jackie) Jiang)

PowerShell

Universal Dashboard Templates – Scaffolding a New UD Project with Powershell (Nathaniel Webb)
PowerShell Tools for Small Basic Blog (Nonki Takahashi)

Miscellaneous

paint.net 4.1.7 alpha (build 7104) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2767 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-06-17 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2366 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #263 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Friday Five: Machine Learning with ML.NET in UWP, ASP.NET Core Blazor game development, and more! (MVP Award Team)
Azure Weekly: June 17, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
F# Weekly #24, 2019 – Fabulous on Tizen and new System.Text.Json APIs! (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #383 (Frank Boucher)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.14 (Edward Thomson)
GameDev News – June 14, 2019 (Brian Peek)

The Geek Shelf

The Road to learn React: Your journey to master plain yet pragmatic React.js (Robin Wieruch)

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Dew Drop – May 23, 2019 (#2965)

Top Links

WPF on GitHub – Add PresentationFramework, PresentationCore, WindowsBase, DirectWriteForwarder sources, along with sources for allied assemblies (Vatsan Madhavan) – The commit that brought WPF into the open source world this week.
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 now generally available (and 16.2 Preview 1 as well) (Mads Kristensen)
SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 3.0 is now available (SQL Server Team)
Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything (Scott Hanselman)
GitHub – Building an interconnected community, together (Nat Friedman)

Web & Cloud Development

React Data Layer – Part 4: Backend Data (Josh Justice)
CSS Grid subgrid lands in Firefox Nightly (Rachel Andrew)
Getting Started with React Testing Library (Kingsley Silas)
Visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service (Meng Tang)
Difference between var, let and const in Javascript. (Prashant Ram)
Using WebAssembly with React (Richard Reedy)
PhpStorm 2019.2 Early Access Program is Now Open (Roman Pronskiy)
Migrate and Modernize with Kubernetes on Azure Government (Steve Michelotti)
Quick Tips for Migrating EF Core at Runtime on Azure (Julie Lerman)
font-display is Incompatible with Icon Fonts (Zach Leatherman)
Why do my linter and formatter hate each other? (Donovan Brown)
#VSCode – Let’s do some #FaceRecognition with 20 lines in #Python (Bruno Capuano)
HttpClient: How to remove charset from Content-Type header (Gunnar Peipman)
Horizonal Rules in LaTeX (Michael Szul)
ONNX Runtime: a one-stop shop for machine learning inferencing (Prasanth Pulavarthi)
Node v12.3.1 (Current) (Ruben Bridgewater)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Regex Examples (C# Curator)
Windows Runtime delegates and object lifetime in C# and other GC languages (Raymond Chen)
Profiling .NET Core Memory Traffic using JetBrains dotMemory (Steve Gordon)
The Ray Tracer Challenge… in .NET Core (Simone Chiaretta)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Blender MSIX (Horatiu Vladasel)
The 50-10 Time Box – Revising Pomodoro for Software Development (Charles Flatt)
Introducing new ways to keep your code secure (Justin Hutchings)
Build like an open source community with GitHub Enterprise (Mario Rodriguez)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s Inside material.dart #2 — Flutter (Karthik Ponnam)
Migrating to MRTK2 – IInputClickHandler and SetGlobalListener are gone. How do we tap now? (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – WSL2 and the new Windows Terminal with Craig Loewen (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Syntax Podcast – CSS the Cool Parts (Wes Bos)
Software Engineering Daily – Gaming with Eli Brown (Jeff Meyerson)
Azure App Services | Dev SuperPowers Azure Tour | Part 1 (SSW TV)
Azure Podcast Episode 280 – ARM Templates and Azure Policy (Sujit D’Mello)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 171: SQL Server Encryption (Amanda Halverson)
Complete Developer Podcast – Positioning Yourself For Advancement (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Is The Google Pixel 3a Better Than The Pixel 3? – What The Tech Ep. 441 (Paul Thurrott)
Radio TFS – Ed Thomson at Build 2019 (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

Community & Events

Travelogue – The Pluralsight IPO (K. Scott Allen)
Accessibility Changes to docs.microsoft.com (Shir Goldberg)
AI boot camp aims to draw more teen girls into computer science (Ben Ryon)
Bot Creation User Experience Survey (Bot Framework Team)
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source (Devon Zuegel)
The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann (Laura LoPresti)

Database

Ways to compare and find differences for SQL Server tables and data (Daniel Calbimonte)
SQL Server script to rebuild all indexes for all tables and all databases (Greg Robidoux)
SQL Server Security Functions (Joe Gavin)
SQL Server Staging Table vs Temp Table (Rick Dobson)
SQL SERVER – Maximizing Query Execution Plans On Screen – A Quick Tip (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.2 has been released! (Oren Eini)
Using VALUES to construct an in-line table. (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

Introducing the New Xbox Game Bar (The Xbox Game Bar Team)
Email Open Rates: Misleading Metrics and Best Practices (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2751 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-05-23 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook: 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows (Kunal Chowdhury)

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