Dew Drop – November 15, 2021 (#3559)

Top Links

• Windows App SDK: Introducing our new feature voting portal! (btueffers)
• Dapr v1.5 is now available (Dapr Team)
• Develop amazing Windows apps using the Windows App SDK (Marissa Matthews, Eve Mwangi, Andrew Whitechapel & Adam Braden)
• What’s New in EF Core 6.0 (EF Core Team)
• High-performance services with gRPC: What’s new in .NET 6 (James Newton-King)

Web & Cloud Development

• Dockershim removal is coming. Are you ready? (Sergey Kanzhelev)
• Add extra claims to an Azure B2C user flow using API connectors and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• WebStorm 2021.3 Beta 2 (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
• Useful React Hooks That You Can Use In Your Projects (Ifeanyi Dike)
• Deploy your Vue.js Application with the Twilio Serverless Toolkit (Miguel Grinberg)
• A CRUD Operation Demo On ASP.NET Core Minimal Web API [ASP.NET Core 6.0 Feature] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Blazor – JavaScript Isolation (ES6 Modules & Blazor) (Sean Franklin)
• ASP.NET Core Identity AddDefaultIdentity vs AddIdentity (Steve Fenton)
• .NET MAUI – Blazor (Vijay Anand E G)
• IHE conflicting Patient Identity Feed patterns (John Moehrke)
• Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images (Austin Carr)
• GoLand 2021.3 Beta 2: Improved Error Messages for Debugging Tests and the Ability to Compare Profiler Snapshots (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Xamarin.Forms: Use converters with binding objects which can have null as value. (András Tóth)
• Introduction to .NET MAUI (Bogusław Błoński)
• Exploring the Calendar Types in WinUI Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Exploring the code behind MauiAppBuilder (Luis Matos)
• Invoke platform code in .NET MAUI (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Microsoft Launches VS Code For The Browser (Kay Ewbank)
• Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 3 Teases Native M1 Processor Support (David Ramel)
• Overriding Sealed Methods in C# (Adam Furmanek)
• New Version VS Code Extension Embedded Linux Kernel Dev v0.4.9 (Matheus Castello)
• Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 Finally Arrive (Mike Melanson)
• Installing a Visual Studio extension for a RootSuffix (Sergey Vlasov)
• Reference Type & Structure Performance: Normal vs Static Methods and Reference Type & Structure Performance: Expanded & Expression Bodied Methods (David McCarter)
• Running Hangfire with .NET 6 and Lite Storage (Paul Michaels)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why Do An Agile Transformation? (LeadingAgile Team)
• Talent Mobility: Why You Should Let Your Top Performers Move Around The Company (Genevieve Michaels)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s new in Shader Graph 2021.2 (Marc Templin, Tracy Chen, Xiaoxi Liu & Nancy LaRue)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Allison Hartnett on Microsoft TEALS and Computer Science Education (David Giard)
• OnPodcast Special: Talking Surface Duo 2 as a daily driver, and Surface Laptop SE (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
• Merge Conflict 280: .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 are here! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 048: TODO: Microwave ToDo List (Ben Nadel)
• JS Party – The inside story on React’s all new docs (Rachel Nabors, Amal Hussein & Amelia Wattenberger)
• Deploy OpenAPI enabled Azure Functions with .NET in Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman & Justin Yoo)
• .NET MAUI and FreshMvvm MVVM Framework: Getting Started (Gerald Versluis)
• Surface Podcast Series – Session 06 – Surface Duo Scenarios in Healthcare (Alfred Ojukwu)
• Build .NET Applications with Visual Studio Code (Leslie Richardson & Luis Quintanilla)
• Modern data APIs with EF Core and GraphQL (Jeremy Likness)
• Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Jeff Fritz (David McCarter)
• The Work Item #44 – So What Is Product Marketing, with Isaac Levin (Den Delimarsky)
• PPP 342 | Change Your Words and You Can Change Your Team and Your Career, with Krister Ungerbock (Andy Kaufman)
• The Changelog – 1Password is all in on its web stack (Mitchell Cohen, Andrew Beyer, Nick Nisi & Amal Hussein)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 019 – Starting a Career in Machine Learning with Kesha Williams (David Isbitski)
• Diagnostics and Observability of .NET Applications (Sourabh Shirhatti)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 315 (Jason Bock)
• Radical Candor S3, Ep. 12: Retain Your Team During the Great Resignation (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
• UI Breakfast Episode 226: Building an Agency Brand with Massimo Zefferino (Jane Portman)
• The Amp Hour #566 – Switching Converter Engineering with Carmen Parisi (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community & Events

• Meet the latest AWS Heroes – November 2021 (Ross Barich)
• Docker’s Developer Community: Wind In Our Sails (Scott Johnston)
• Start Your Software Development Career through Apprenticeship (8th Light)
• Steam Deck: Five big things we learned from Valve’s developer summit (Sean Hollister)
• Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit (Andy Warren)
• How to get the most out of your Imagine Cup experience (MS Student Developer Team)
• Top Things to Do in Philadelphia the Week of Thanksgiving 2021 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Common Ways To Prevent SQL Server Dump Generation in Hot Cases (Esther Xin)
• MySQL – Wait For Seconds Using SELECT SLEEP() (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 5.3 Features: Incremental time series (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Creating Adaptive Scopes using PowerShell (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Build 16.0.14701 for Android adds Eagle Eye View, Dark Mode (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.346 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
• paint.net 4.3.3 alpha build 7988 (Rick Brewster)
• How to Keep a VM / Desktop “awake” (Sean Killeen)
• Limited Edition Custom .NET Cycling Jersey (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3353 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five: Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Loop, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Overflow #99: These principles are still SOLID (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• The Wolf Report – November 15th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Code Maze Weekly #101 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Reading List 283 (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 328 – 14th Nov 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
• C# Digest Issue #389 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #46, 2021 -F# 6, .NET 6, VS2022 are officially released! (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)