Dew Drop – December 13, 2021 (#3577)

Top Links

• Fixing sync over async issues in .NET (Mark Downie)
• Parallel.ForEachAsync Deep Dive (Greg Bair)
• Jessica Engström on User Experience – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 171 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Reducing Developer Cycle time with Dapr and AKS (Kevin Dawkins)
• Async Disposables The Easy Way (Phil Haack)

Web & Cloud Development

• Mocking Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core Integration Tests (Muhammad Azeez)
• New in Node.js: node: protocol imports (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Try React 18 RC with TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
• Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid (Chris Coyier)
• A Simple Kubernetes Admission Webhook (Clément Labbe)
• Implement Compound Proof BBS+ verifiable credentials using ASP.NET Core and MATTR (Damien Bowden)
• Case-sensitivity on AWS – redux (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How to connect Azure SQL database from Python Function App using managed identity or access token (Kevin Li)
• Running Docker Compose Interactively (Paul Michaels)
• AWS Announces Construct Hub and New Version of AWS Cloud Development Kit at re:Invent 2021 (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Standardizing Focus Styles With CSS Custom Properties (Stephanie Eckles)
• Custom JSON Serialization with System.Text.Json Converters (Steve Gordon)
• navigator.clipboard API (David Walsh)
• How to Access ES Module Metadata using import.meta (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• Top 7 Machine Learning Frameworks for Web Development (Fazmeena Faisal)
• Open Graph: a guide to sharable social media previews (John Reilly)
• Microservice Scalability Challenges and How to Overcome Them (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Set Up Let’s Encrypt with Contour Using VMware Tanzu Community Edition (Kendrick Coleman)
• Mantras for Secure FHIR Development (John Moehrke)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Create a File Picker Using Xamarin.Essentials and Telerik UI for Xamarin (Dobrinka Yordanova)
• Applying borders in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Digging into the .NET Dictionary implementation… (Oren Eini)
• New in Visual Studio Code v1.63: Theme Previewing, Notebook Improvements, More (David Ramel)
• C# Advent 2021 – Using C# Code in Power Automate (Barrett Blake)
• Rider 2021.3.1 and ReSharper 2021.3.1 Released (Asia Rudenko)
• How to Run Code in a New Thread in C# (Bartosz Jarmuż)
• EF Core 6 new features and changes for .NET 6 (David Grace)
• Syncfusion Controls Support .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 (Mohamed Samsudeen)
• Getting Started With .NET IL (Mike James)
• Kafka and .NET – Part 1 – What is Kafka? (Simon Timms)
• The Magickal Way to Distort Images (Jeremy Sinclair)
• Data Inferencing in Loading Data (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Working With Alternative Data Streams::The “Hidden” Part of Your Windows File System on Windows (j2inet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• PSF Trace Fixup – Troubleshoot an MSIX package failure (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Agile Principles: Frictionless Collaboration (Al Tenhundfeld)
• Learn in 1 Hour: Design Patterns (Anastasia Khramushina)
• Snapshot Testing with Verify (Dan Clarke)
• Maturity levels of using GitHub Actions Securely (Rob Bos)
• Writing deterministic tests in a variable world (Dane Schilling)
• Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions (Jay Destro)
• End to End Testing with 30DaysOfPlaywright #004 | Tool Talk: Hello, Trace Viewer (Nitya Narasimhan)
• 9 Ways To Make The Holiday Season Less Stressful For Your Employees (Sam Milbrath)
• GitHub Improves Code Navigation and Search (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Gift Guide To Raspberry Pi Pico and Programmer Gifts – Pi For Xmas (Harry Fairhead)
• Flutter on Raspberry Pi (mostly) from scratch (Chinmay Garde)
• Flutter Memory Optimization Series (AbdulMuaz Aqeel)
• How to setup dart-define for keys and secrets on Android and iOS in Flutter apps (Gildásio Filho)
• How to automate localization for Flutter apps (GitLab Team)
• 17 Fun Projects for New Boards from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Micro:Bit, and More (Keith Hammond)
• Connecting USB devices to WSL on Windows with usbipd-win for Linux IoT device support! (Scott Hanselman)
• Best Project Management Software For Game Developers (Enrique Corrales)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CodeNewbie S18:E6 – How you can use music to learn code  (Sam Aaron) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer Tea – Input Quadrant – A Tool for Better Retrospectives (Jonathan Cutrell)
• OnPodcast Episode 56: Halo Infinite campaign launch, new Windows 11 notepad & big Insider build (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
• Merge Conflict 284: C# 10 Global & Implicit Usings (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• JS Party – So much Sveltey goodness (Rich Harris, Amal Hussein & Amelia Wattenberger)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 022 – AWS Construct Hub, CDK V2, and CDK Watch with Danielle Kucera and Adam Ruka (David Isbitski)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Agile anti-patterns that emerge when the PO tells the team what to do | Maximilian Dazer (Vasco Duarte)
• Meta Cast 211 – How To Handle This Wild Job Market (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• UI Breakfast Episode 228: Design Advisory with Brian Lovin (Jane Portman)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 323 (Jason Bock)
• AGL 239: In The Lead with Dr. Janet Polach (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• Interview – Jeffrey Snover, The Inventor of PowerShell (Elizabeth Lvova)
• Pantone Color of the Year 2022 (Ben Moss)
• The Projects and People that Shaped Open Source in 2021 (Celeste Malia)

Database

• How to Create a FOR Loop in SQL Server (Koen Verbeeck)
• Temporal Tables In SQL Server (Wade Gausden)

SharePoint, Microsoft 365 & MS Teams

• Display images in Adaptive Cards (Tomasz Poszytek)

Miscellaneous

• Hidden Xbox APIs: Backing Up Media Captures (Den Delimarsky)
• Your Windows 11 upgrade is ready. Should you do it? (Ed Bott)
• The Ultimate Guide to Installing Windows 11 (Michael Otey)
• My Essential Software (Rinat Abdullin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3373 (Chris Alcock)
• C# Digest Issue #393 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #50, 2021 – Rider 2021.3, F# 6 Tasks and data pipelines (Sergey Tihon)
• The Overflow #103: Does modern parenting require spyware? (Ryan Donovan)
• The Wolf Report – December 13th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Firday Five: Power Apps, Teams Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• Reading List 284 (Bruce Lawson)
• C++ Annotated November 2021: Discussions on C++ Ecosystem, a Book on C++ Core Guidelines, Designated Initializers, and Recent Releases (Anastasia Kazakova)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)

The Geek Shelf

 Righting Software (Juval Löwy) – Referral Link