Weekly Newsletter (18 Oct 2021)

Monday, October 18, 2021 View online | Switch to the Daily Build Welcome to this week's newsletter from CodeProject. To ensure that future newsletters you receive from The Code Project aren't mistakenly blocked by antispam software, be sure to add the maillist.codeproject.com domain to your list of allowed senders. Advertisements Answer your biggest performance questions Get all the diagnostic information you need to solve your biggest performance questions. Raygun is free to try, easy to set up, and works seamlessly across your tech stack. Get started with free unlimited monitoring for 14-days. Build forms with address autocompletion and verification in minutes AV Elements is for front-end developers using React, Vue or just Javascript. It works by targeting the input elements of your address form and using their values with Lob's verification and autocompletion functionality. Try for free! Weekly Poll Results Do you use block markers (eg. {}, begin/end) when the code block is only a single line? Survey period: 11 Oct 2021 to 18 Oct 2021 Consistency or compactness? What's your preferred way of marking blocks of code? Option Votes %   I always wrap code blocks in block markers regardless of the number of lines in the block if (condition) { statement; } 491 52.97 I only use block markers when there is more than 1 line if (condition) statement; 222 23.95 The programming language I use requires I always use block markers 13 1.40 I don't program in a language that uses block markers 46 4.96 It depends (on my mood, my team mates, the current project, the language, the phase of the moon...) 155 16.72 Total 927   100% This week's survey: What types of software development are you working on currently? Latest Additions New articles added DevOps On Design, Testing and Why Some Unit Tests are Waste   (5 votes) by Łukasz Bownik (updated 3 days ago) The article describes an alternative approach to unit testing. Hosted Services Microsoft Teams for Java Developers Part 3: Developing Bots   (2 votes) by Dawid Borycki (updated 2 days ago) In this article we learn how to add a conversational bot to Microsoft Teams to echo back text messages. Microsoft Teams for Java Developers Part 2: Developing Custom Tabs   (1 votes) by Dawid Borycki (updated 3 days ago) In this article we create a Teams tab based on a sample Spring MVC web application deployed to Azure Spring Cloud. Azure for Game Developers Part 2: Developing and Deploying Game Servers Automatically with the Microsoft Game Stack   (1 votes) by Raphael Mun (updated 6 days ago) In this article we learn how to automate your development and deployment process with a real, fully functional multiplayer game server using GitHub Actions. Microsoft Teams for Java Developers Part 1: Getting Started   (1 votes) by Dawid Borycki (updated 4 days ago) This article is an introduction to Microsoft Teams development. Azure for Game Developers Part 3: LiveOps and Analytics with the Microsoft Game Stack   (0 votes) by Raphael Mun (updated 5 days ago) In this article we explore how to use PlayFab to add events and gather data from our game for LiveOps and Analytics. Programming Languages How to use certificates in ASP.NET Core   (8 votes) by Ivan Yakimov (updated 3 days ago) This article will contain the following sections: What is a certificate and why do we need them? How to create a self-signed certificate for testing on your computer? How to use certificates with ASP.NET Core on the server side and on the client side? Beginning with the ST32F3DISCOVERY microcontroller board from STMicroelectronics   (3 votes) by Richard Chambers (updated 3 days ago) An introduction and a first walk through of using STM32CubeIDE with the ST32F3DISCOVERY board. Articles updated Desktop Programming Init Threads in MFC and Win32   (13 votes) by Petrov Vladimir (updated 17 hours ago) Starting Threads in MFC and Win32 and some handling samples Easy WPF Copy/Paste Excel   (10 votes) by Juan Francisco Morales Larios (updated 3 days ago) An easy way to copy and paste data between WPF application and Excel Programming Languages Multi Level Cache that Does Up To A Billion Lookups Per Second in C++   (12 votes) by tugrulGtx (updated 12 hours ago) Direct mapped cache in front, LRU approximation behind, any LLC on back-end. Cinchoo ETL - JSON Reader   (3 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 3 days ago) Simple JSON reader for .NET New Tips and Tricks added Programming Languages Get Chunky Now   (1 votes) by BillWoodruff (updated yesterday) Create collections of #n sized elements from arrays, lists, and string Cinchoo ETL - Parsing Huge JSON File as Stream   (1 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 3 days ago) Quick tutorial about parsing large JSON file as stream Exploring Signal-R to make WPF Application Interactive   (1 votes) by Pusparag Subudhi (updated 4 days ago) A WPF application can be made more interactive and deployment friendly by using SignalR to our advantage. This is Part 1 of showing how SignalR can be implemented in a WPF application for 2 way communication and synchronization. Tips and Tricks updated Programming Languages Cinchoo ETL - Converting Complex Nested JSON to CSV   (3 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 6 hours ago) Tips to convert complex nested JSON file to CSV format file New Technical Blogs added Programming Languages Python vs C++ Series: Polymorphism and Duck Typing   (4 votes) by Shun Huang (updated 6 days ago) Introduce Python's way to support polymorphism and duck typing from the concept of C++ polymorphism © 2021 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Weekly Newsletter click here. CodeProject 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com