Month: October 2021

Top Links

• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 9 (David Ortinau)
• Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 (Richard Lander)
• Introducing OpenSilver 1.0 (OpenSilver Team)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 (Daniel Roth)
• Join us November 8 for the Launch of Visual Studio 2022 (Amanda Silver)

Web & Cloud Development

• Cursor Paging With Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Azure AD to Microsoft Graph migration for Azure command line tools. (Damien Caro)
• Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript (Gaurav Khanna)
• Self Diagnosing Deployments with Oakton and Lamar (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Auth0 Identity Platform Now Available on Microsoft Azure (Kaycie East)
• Which Azure Container Solution is right for you? (Lee Briggs)
• Blazor’s AOT Compilation Isn’t the Silver Bullet You’re Expecting (Matthew MacDonald)
• Combine Form Fields, Merge Fields and Signature Boxes to Request Signatures (Bjoern Meyer)
• Angular Basics: Data Binding Part 6—Input Decorator (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
• Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 1.0 (Vivek Lakshmanan)
• W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1 (Xueyuan Jia)
• Electron 15 Adds String Encoding API (Kay Ewbank)
• Node v16.11.1 (Current) and Node v14.18.1 (LTS) and Node v12.22.7 (LTS) (Danielle Adams)
• Accessibility (UIA) Troubleshooting (Eric Lawrence)
• Announcing the Google Forms API (Christian Schalk)
• Simple HTTP Server in .Net (j2inet)
• Introducing Resource Methods for Pulumi Packages (Justin Van Patten)
• Jamstack Developers’ Favorite Frameworks of 2021 (Laurie Voss)
• Improving how Microsoft Edge processes appear in Task Manager (Allison Pastewka)
• Solo.io Adds GraphQL to Gloo Mesh and Gloo Edge (Mike Melanson)
• Native Badges Come to Progressive Web Applications (Uno Platform Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Silverlight Lives On With OpenSilver (Mike James)
• Adventure Planning With the First WinUI DateTimePicker (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
• The Windows Package Manager (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools? (Chris Heilmann)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# and Java Code to Digitally Sign PDF Files With a Certificate (Gabriel Smith)
• Visual Studio Project System Tools for .NET (.NET Team)
• .NET October 2021 Updates – 5.0.11 and 3.1.20 (Sanket Kalaskar)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Design Patterns Overview (Steve Smith)
• Azure DevOps Locally-Hosted Build Agent With Global NPM/.NET Tools (Charles Flatt)
• A PKI-less secure communication channel: Using TLS (Oren Eini)
• Better Scrum Through Essence (Ian Spence)
• The happy hand: A puzzle about odd names in Azure DevOps (Raymond Chen)
• Trello’s Top Project Management Hacks For Engineering Teams (Sam Milbrath)
• How I use Polywork to overcome impostor syndrome (Scott Brady)
• Dev Tips – Stand Up for Stand Up (Adam Storr)
• Essential Engineering Skills For Every Software Architect (Ankur Kumar)
• Learning to not fear the unknown (David Humphrey)
• 15 flags that your testability practices need maturing (Dennis Doomen)
• Effective delegation: Assign ownership (Eric Brechner)
• Get branching with Git (Ted Krueger)
• Do Your UX Designs Support Content Authors? (Tiffany Olejnik)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Choosing the Right Data Storage Solution: Ionic Storage, Capacitor Storage, SQLite, or Ionic Secure Storage? (Kim Maida)
• Azure for Game Developers Part 3: LiveOps and Analytics with the Microsoft Game Stack (Raphael Mun)
• Compose for Wear OS now in Developer Preview! (Jeremy Walker)
• Announcing Stencil v2.9 (Anthony Giuliano)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Microsoft Stories Podcast: Season 2, episode 1 – Tackling climate change starts with measuring your actions (Katie Gale)
• RunAs Radio – PrintNightmare with Jeremy Moskowitz and RunAs Radio – Windows Package Manager with Sarah Lean and RunAs Radio – Azure Communication Services with Mary Anne Noskowski (Richard Campbell)
• DevOps Lab | Hashicorp Series | Episode 2 | How to terraform everything | The DevOps Lab (April Edwards & Kyle Ruddy)
• Flutter Q&A with Chris Sells, Senior Product Manager at Google on Flutter – Part 2 [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• AzureFunBytes Episode 59 – Remote Possibilities with @burkeholland (Jay Gordon)
• Asp.Net Monsters #226 – Building GitHub Actions in C# (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
• Model virtual machine costs with the Azure Cost Estimator Power BI Template | Azure Enablement Show (Sarah Lean & Jeff Amels)
• Learn from the MVPs: Inside Microsoft Teams – Season 4 (Mercedes Orasch)
• ID10T Podcast – Stanley Tucci (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 430 | Facebook: BGP?, Whats New in Microsoft 365 and the News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 234: Communication Tips for the IT Pro (Carlos L. Chacon)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 306 (Jason Bock)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 481: Ipek Ozkaya on Managing Technical Debt (Jeff Doolittle)
• VS 2022 64-bit – Adventures in .NET 090 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)

Community & Events

• The Future of the .NET Foundation and .NET OSS (Aaron Stannard)
• NEXT Special – Cloud Security and DEI: Being an Ally! (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Developer Influence 2021 (Brad Oliver)
• What makes a great submission for summit (James Petty)
• What’s new for Microsoft partners: October 2021 edition (MS Partner Network Team)
• Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring (Toya East)

Database

• SQL SERVER – List of Trace Events (Pinal Dave)
• Restoring to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2 (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

• A closer look at the parsing code of a Crescendo output handler (Sean Wheeler)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Twain Films (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Cybersecurity: Rebuilding after an attack (Jeremy Maxwell)
• Zunepedia – Zune Digital Coffee Table Book (Peter Bull)
• Autoruns v14.04, high DPI icons for WinObj, Tcpview, Process Monitor and build tools refresh (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.47.1, fixing bugs in FancyZones and more (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
• A new PC is a great way to get Windows 11 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3331 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-13 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

 Git for Programmers: Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link