Dew Drop – November 18, 2021 (#3562)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Desktop Development with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Exploring C# 10: Use Extended Property Patterns to Easily Access Nested Properties (Dave Brock)
• .NET 6 on AWS (Josh Hurley)
• Azure SDK Release (November 2021) (Azure SDK Team)
• Announcing TypeScript 4.5 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions (Azure Team)
• Pulumi Announces AWS Native Provider (Aditya Kulkarni)
• A Guide To Modern CSS Colors (Michelle Barker)
• Mini book: The Angular Mini-Book (Matt Raible)
• Managing a Parent Component in Blazor (Peter Vogel)
• Book Review: Go Programming In Easy Steps (Mike James)
• Pulumi Nov. 17 releases: `dependOn` Helm charts, new Elastic Cloud provider, functions support outputs, set the CLI’s default organization (Alex Mullans)
• Announcing NgRx Version 13: Ivy Builds, Feature Creators, Improved Selectors, and more! (Brandon Roberts)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• WPF Roadmap for FY22 (WPF Team)
• Windows App SDK (‘Project Reunion’) Hits Version 1.0 (David Ramel)
• Enabling File Access in Universal Windows Apps (Jason Gaylord)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Internationalization and Localization Performance: Formatting Strings (David McCarter)
• Implementing Unit And Integration Tests On .NET With xUnit (Cristopher Coronado)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Track Progress During Agile Transformation (LeadingAgile)
• Converting many environments to tenants via the Octopus API (Mark Butler)
• Four new tools for your Visual Studio Code and GitLab tool belt (Tomas Vik)
• Lifehacking 101: slow down (Mauro Servienti)
• GitHub’s developer-first approach to content moderation (Abby Vollmer)
• How To Perform Cross Browser Testing Using xUnit Part 6 (Anton Angelov)
• Moving from SAFe to Just In Time (Dave Prior)
• What’s the Cost of Indirection & Abstractions? (Derek Comartin)
• Our journey to creating a customer-driven maturity model (Hilary Dwyer)
• Mini book: The InfoQ eMag – DevSecOps: Shifting Left in Practice (InfoQ)
• Introducing Content Health, a new way to keep the knowledge base up-to-date (Lori Colston)
• Microspeak: Righteous (Raymond Chen)
• 5 Ws and H of the Product Cycle (Steven Sinofsky)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• #Android Developer Summit: 3 things to know for Large Screens on Android! (Clara Bayarri)
• Customizing Axes in Flutter Charts: A Complete Guide (Dharanidharan Dharmasivam)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Working Code Podcast – Episode 49: Replatforming (Ben Nadel)
• Starting DevOps at Work – Adventures in DevOps 094 (Charles Max Wood, Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Top 10 C# Developers Videos from .NET Conf 2021 (Andrea Angella)
• Two Art of Agile Development Podcast Appearances (James Shore)
• Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Oracle Code Innovate Retools, Embraces Virtual Format to Engage Developers (Bob Rhubart)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 236: Database Monitoring with SQL Sentry (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Design Details 420: The Pointer Cursor Debate (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• Talk Python to Me #341: 25 Pandas Functions You Didn’t Know Existed (Michael Kennedy)
• Web Wednesday: Recapping .NET Conf with Jon Galloway (Christopher Harrison)
• Let’s Get Functional – Adventures in .NET 095 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• AGL 235: Ransomware and Cyber Security with Greg Edwards (John Rouda)
• ‘Life’s too short for bad software’, with Leon Barnard (Leon Barnard)

Community & Events

• Maker Faire Rochester 2021 (Dan Schneiderman)
• Dapr Joins CNCF Incubator: Q&A with Yaron Schneider (Eran Stiller)
• Student Ambassador community voices: Becoming a Student Ambassador (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

• RavenDB 5.3 New Features: Elasticsearch ETL (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams is getting new Fluent emojis this month (Rabia Noureen)
• Collaboration in the Metaverse: Mesh for Microsoft Teams (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22504 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Windows 10 KB5007253 update fixes remote printer issues (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft reorgs its cloud business, creates new Strategic Missions and Technologies team (Mary Jo Foley)
• paint.net 4.3.3 beta build 7991 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3356 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – November 18th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming (Stephen Cleary) – Referral Link