Dew Drop – December 10, 2021 (#3576)

Top Links

• Angular on Desktop (Sam Basu)
• Hanselminutes – David Copperfield’s History of Magic – in partnership with Microsoft Outside In (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Started with gRPC and .NET (Mohamad Lawand)
• PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Release (Sydney Smith)
• .NET Podcasts app – Local Development Walkthrough (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Docker Secure Images: What Are They and How Do I Use Them? (Alyssa Shames)
• Learn in 1 Hour: HTML Tags (Anastasia Khramushina)
• Using custom models with Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics (Deyaaeldeen Almahallawi)
• Optimizing Build Times in the Jamstack With Netlify’s DPR and Next.js (and Game of Thrones) (Ifeoma Imoh)
• Blazor Server CRUD Operation Using MudBlazor UI Components [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Testing Email Templates in ASP.NET Core (Muhammad Azeez)
• “Is Web3… anything?” (Chris Granger)
• Chasing Memory Bugs through v8 and WebAssembly (Roberto Vidal)
• How FHIR and Other API Measures Improve Healthcare Interoperability (Daniel Kivatinos)
• Debug memory leaks with the Microsoft Edge Detached Elements tool (Patrick Brosset)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• If you’re looking for a full object model of the Windows App SDK 1.0.0, here ya go (Morten Nielsen)
• The Miracle of IQueryAttributable (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• VS Code News Roundup: Notebook APIs, Codebase Mapping, Infrastructure as Code (David Ramel)
• Exploring Microsoft.Data.Analysis for C# in a .NET Interactive Notebook (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• .NET 6 vs .NET 4.8 GC stats – ~64% shorter max GC pause times (due to 1 letter removed in runtime) (nietras)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Use commercial integration tools to simplify implementation concerns and Team-sourced Architectural Principles (Martin Fowler)
• How to conquer Blank Page Syndrome (Sketch Team)
• GitHub Previews Improved Code Search: ‘Way More than grep’ (David Ramel)
• Diversify Your Hype Squad: An Imposter Syndrome Strategy (‘Tine Zekis (she/her))
• Why Performance Goals Are So Important (And How to Set Your Own) (Dave Schafer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• IoT: Scaling Out an Azure IoT Solution to Support Millions of Devices (Michael C. Bazarewsky)
• Agility SDK 1.600.10 – minor bugfix release (Amar Patel)
• Discover the stunning possibilities of ArtEngine 2021.15.1 – and bake more than a cake this holiday season (Eoghan O’Sullivan & Victor Kam)
• Unity 2022.1 beta is now available (Kristyna Hougaard)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Beautiful C++ with Kate Gregory and Guy Davidson (Rob Irving)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast 399: Zero to MVP without provisioning a database (Eira May)
• React Native Radio #220 – We React to News (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Jon Major Condon)
• Virtual DOM and the React Way, Part 1 – JSJ 512 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Pete Brown explains what Windows 11 means for app monetization (Windows Developer Team)
• Rocket 363: Enhanced Pants (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Talk Python to Me #344: SQLAlchemy 2.0 (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast Episode 6 – Operation Santa (Yasmine Di Giulio & Dale Parsan)

Community & Events

• Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Mark Brown (David McCarter)
• Android Developer Relations is hiring (Maru Ahues Bouza)
• Grace Hopper – Born On This Day In 1906 (Sue Gee)
• Open Source Collaboration and Creativity Comes to Hardware (Emily Omier)
• Microsoft Surface Duo at droidcon (Cesar Valiente)

Database

• Monitoring Data on Cloud and Optimizing Queries for MySQL (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Managed Instance – Failover Groups Quick Tips (Arun Sirpal)
• Marten’s Compiled Query Feature (Jeremy D. Miller)
• re: Why IndexedDB is slow and what to use instead (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Introducing an improved search results experience on Microsoft Teams (Harisudhakar VPD)

PowerShell

• Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Release Candidate (RC) (Jason Helmick)

Miscellaneous

• The Secrets to Success in Halo Infinite’s Vast World (Xbox Team)
• Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass for PC rebrands as PC Game Pass (Brad Stephenson)
• The live-action Halo TV show looks extremely expensive in its newest trailer (Chaim Gartenberg)
• PANTONE Color of the Year for 2022 comes to Windows 11 wallpaper (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3372 (Chris Alcock)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.12.10 (Jay Gordon)
• Code Maze Weekly #105 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The Wolf Report – December 10th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | December 2021 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

 Flutter Cookbook: Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart (Simone Alessandria & Brian Kayfitz) – Referral Link