Dew Drop – December 9, 2021 (#3575)

Top Links

• What’s New in Flutter 2.8 (Chris Sells)
• ReSharper 2021.3 Brings Visual Studio 2022 Support, More C# 10 Features, and Improved Support for Nullable Reference Types and C#! and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2021.3 Release! (Alexander Kurakin)
• VS 2022 Launch Recap: Extensibility (Leslie Richardson)
• Rider 2021.3: Support for .NET 6 SDK, Redesigned Main Toolbar and Debug Tab, and New Problems View Tab (Alexandra Kolesova)
• Improving GitHub code search (Pavel Avgustinov)

Web & Cloud Development

• Loading Components Dynamically in an Angular App (Alisa Duncan)
• Updated CLI and ARM REST APIs for Azure Machine Learning (Bala Venkataraman)
• Using TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET with .NET 6 (Bjoern Meyer)
• Do the New Terms of Docker Desktop Apply If You Don’t Use the Docker Desktop UI? (Jeremy Castile)
• Create an Org Chart to Elegantly Visualize Hierarchical Data in Blazor WebAssembly (Kameshwaran R)
• Let’s Build A Recipe Blog with Azure Static Web Apps & Hugo (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Top Tips to Secure Your Vue Application (Joel Parks)
• From Figma to React—Reusable Components (Ventsislav Staykov)
• Use Azure AD to Authorize Access to Azure Blob Storage (Carl Layton)
• Secure a Clojure Web API with Auth0 (Vincenzo Chianese)
• creating aliases with npm (Andrew Evans)
• Pod Security Graduates to Beta (Jim Angel & Lachlan Evenson)
• Dec. 8 releases: K8s examples, exclude protected resources from destroy, easier invites to the Pulumi Service (Alex Mullans)
• Your First Microservice in .NET 6 (Assis Zang)
• What Are Web Components? (Jason Beres)
• Vision AI hardware for software developers (Quenton Hall & KV Thanjavur Bhaaskar)
• Amazon Wants Everybody on Its Cloud (B. Cameron Gain)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Upgrading Radial Gauge from UWP to WinUI 3 (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Top Free Extensions for Visual Studio 2022 (David Ramel)
• Why I love Resharper 3 (Adam Storr)
• DotNetDave Says… All Data Coming into a Type Must Be Validated! (David McCarter)
• ReSharper C++ 2021.3: Support for Visual Studio 2022, Unreal Engine File Templates, New C++20 and C Features (Elvira Mustafina)
• Visual Studio Code November 2021 (VS Code Team)
• JetBrains IDEs and .NET Tools 2021.3 Have Been Released (Marina Kovaleva)
• Creating an incremental generator: Creating a source generator – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
• Don’t Do That, Do This: The .NET 6 Edition (Dave Brock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• A time and place for conversations: The Architecture Advisory Forum (Martin Fowler)
• Leading a DevOps Transformation – a Collaborative Engineering Approach (Ben Linders)
• Where to donate your DevOps skills (Sandra Gittlen)
• Introducing… Splunk for iPad! (Jesse Chor)
• dotNetDave Says… No One Writes Perfect Code! (David McCarter)
• Jenkins: Use Containers as Build Agents (Darin Pope)
• Safe schema updates – Strangling the monolith (Alex Yates)
• Long live the Monolith! Monolithic Architecture != Big Ball of Mud (Derek Comartin)
• Finding and fixing bugs with deep learning (Lexie Hagen)
• End to End Testing with 30DaysOfPlaywright #003 | Let’s Automate Playwright Testing With GitHub Actions (Nitya Narasimhan)
• DevSecOps FAQ: Get up to speed (Valerie Silverthorne)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Announcing Flutter 2.8 (Tim Sneath)
• Announcing Dart 2.15 (Michael Thomsen)
• Apple Open Source – Featured open source projects (Apple) – Apple launched a new open source website, featuring their OSS projects
• Beta 1 Update for 12L feature drop! (Maru Ahues Bouza)
• Learn in 1 Hour: 4 Tips to Write Less Code in Kotlin (Anastasia Khramushina)
• Announcing HLSL 2021 (Chris Bieneman)
• Agility SDK 1.700.10 – our first Agility SDK preview! (Jacques van Rhyn)
• Fix: Dark background when taking pictures or making movies with HoloLens 2 and OpenXR (Joost van Schaik)
• Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin, Day 3: Binary Diagnostic (Sebastian Aigner)
• Announcing new DirectX 12 feature – Video Encoding! (Sil Vilerino)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – JavaScript and Hardware × Cars, Factories, Heavy Industry, Robots, and the Internet of Things (Wes Bos)
• .NET Rocks! – OpenSilver Ships with Giovanni Albani (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 52: Interview With Steve Rittler (Ben Nadel)
• How Microsoft Empowers Clinicians and Care Teams (Microsoft Healthcare & Life)
• Video: Understanding Queuing Theory and Software Performance (Kevin Kotowski)
• Design Details 422: The Complainisode (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• Web Rush Episode 163: Theme Park Technology (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• New and Improved OWASP (Part 2) – Adventures in .NET 098 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 024: How to Grow from Engineer to CEO with Ken Whah (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

• Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021 (Renato Losio)
• Reconnect Series: Zubair Alexander (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• Introducing .NET Developer Niels Swimberghe (Niels Swimberghe)
• Blizzard victim says she was demoted after reporting sexual harassment (Ash Parrish)
• Explore the 2022 Imagine Cup categories (MS Student Developer Team)
• UnoConf 2021 Summary and Recordings (Uno Platform Team)

Database

• Announcing Oracle Support for .NET 6 and Entity Framework Core 6 (Alex Keh)
• Feature Design: ETL for Queues in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Learn about SQL Joins on Multiple Columns (Jim Evans)
• Couchbase Server 7.0.2 according to the rule of 3’s (Jeff Morris)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams web app gets custom backgrounds support in public preview (Rabia Noureen)
• How to use Power Automate to send custom notifications to Microsoft Teams feed (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• The December feature drop for the Microsoft Surface Duo 2 (Steve Litchfield)
• Stardock launches Fences 4, 1.0 with new peek feature (Arif Bacchus)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22518 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Partial application in Q# (Filip W.)
• Halo Infinite now available on PC, console and Xbox Game Pass (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3371 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #691 (Mary Lou)
• The Wolf Report – December 9th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 The Customer-Driven Playbook: Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products (Travis Lowdermilk & Jessica Rich) – Referral Link