Dew Drop – January 4, 2022 (#3592)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Pandemic Geek Out 2021 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building .NET MAUI apps with GitHub Actions (Dave Murray)
• Ultimate Guide to Connecting to Office 365 Outlook using Azure Logic Apps (Wael Kdouh)
• A Comprehensive Guide to Port from EF6 to EF Core (Jeremy Likness)

Web & Cloud Development

• Master JavaScript Promise: Resolve, Reject and Chaining in ECMAScript 6 (Chinedu Imoh)
• Evaluation policies in a tenant-wide level and more Azure tricks (Dennes Torres)
• Adventures in Dapr: Episode 1 (James Dawson)
• 5 Cloud Native Trends to Watch out for in 2022 (Janakiram MSV)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Converting Xamarin Native templates to .NET 6 (Andreas Nesheim)
• WPF: How to Create Windows Application Event Logs (Asma Khalid)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Chi-Square Test Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Bending .NET – Move Native Libraries to Sub-directory After Publish (Nietras)
• Upgraded Geta Optimizely packages (Maris Krivtezs)
• Customising generated code with marker attributes: Creating a source generator – Part 4 (Andrew Lock)
• Form Field Handling in PDF Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Check if .NET Is Already Installed (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Favor real dependencies for unit testing (Mark Seeman)
• GitHub Tokens explained (Rob Bos)
• Composition-Based Design System In Figma (Aleksandra Nagornaia)
• What Inspires the Product Owner in Software Development in 2022? (Julia Voloshchenko)
• Finding our new normal (Mark Downie)
• Can Music Really Help You Work Faster or Be More Creative? (Suzanne Scacca)
• Microservice Strangler Pattern (Sameer Shukla)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• The Stack Overflow Podcast 403: Professional ethics and phantom braking (Eira May)
• InfoQ Podcast: AI, ML and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report (Kimberly McGuire, Srini Penchikala, Rags Srinivas & Anthony Alford)
• Revision Path – Charlene Atlas (Maurice Cherry)
• AzureFunBytes Episode 63 – Getting Started with @Azure and WebAssembly with @StevenMurawski (Jay Gordon)
• Bad Date Comparisons in C# – if (DateTime.Now.ToString() == “01/01/2022 00:00:00”) (Scott Hanselman)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – PagerDuty’s Security Training for Engineers! Part Deux (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• AGL 243: Christopher Judd (John Rouda)
• UI Breakfast Podcast – BDTP. SaaS Positioning with Marc Thomas (Jane Portman)

Database

• SQL Server 2019 New Feature – Verbose Truncation Warnings for INSERT Statements (Sean Lee)
• SQL SERVER – Most Used Database Files – Script (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell & Terminal

• SQL Server Connection String Examples with PowerShell (Joe Gavin)
• Error Installing Deno on Windows 11 using PowerShell 7.2 (Dan Wahlin)
• Warp – The terminal that supercharges your developer workflow (Warp Team)

Miscellaneous

• Extract sentiment from text with AI Builder (Paul Nogues)
• Career growth requires career development (Pluralsight)
• Reasons for optimism in 2022 (Bill Gates)
• How to Create Diagrams for Technical Blog Posts (Meagan Shelley)
• paint.net 4.3.6 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Getting GamePass for FREE — updated for 2022 (Simon Jackson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3381 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2022-1) (Michael Eaton)
• [Last Week in .NET #75] – Jetbrains, are you out Azure mind? (George Stocker)
• The Wolf Report – January 4th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link