Dew Drop – January 7, 2022 (#3595)

Top Links

• Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022 (Taysser Gherfal)
• Microsoft PowerToys Release v0.53.1 (Clint Rutkas)
• Template Studio for WPF (Matt Lacey)
• Announcing the Flutter Puzzle Hack! (Kelvin Boateng)
• Hanselminutes – Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Installing Angular-cli on a new machine without Visual Studio (Kevin Logan)
• React 18 Adds Concurrent Renderer (I Programmer)
• Amazon Introduces AWS Q&A Service (Kay Ewbank)
• Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps (Sergey Kanzhelev, Jim Angel, Davanum Srinivas, Shannon Kularathna, Chris Short & Dawn Chen)
• Getting to Know… React (Aaron T. Grogg)
• 10 Must-Have React Developer Tools To Write Clean Code (Alex Omeyer)
• Using TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET in Blazor Server Apps (Bjoern Meyer)
• AWS Offers a TypeScript Interface for Lambda Observability (Joab Jackson)
• The Blazor Breadcrumb Control Is Now Production-Ready! (Satheeskumar S)
• Build a Node.js app with Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB (Shweta Nayak)
• Lock down web browsing using Kiosk Mode (Eric Lawrence)
• Import a WebSocket API in API Management (Sherry Sahni)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Preview 11 Adds Windows 11 Fluent UI Control Styling (David Ramel)
• Implicit usings in .NET MAUI (David Britch)
• 4 Steps to Transpose and Invert a WPF Datagrid (Greg Lutz)
• Styling Beautiful Uno Platform Applications (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Debug .NET applications running on Kubernetes with VS Code (Tom Deseyn)
• Integrating Long Path Names in Windows .NET Applications (Rick Strahl)
• MediatR 10.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Your Future Self Can Help Your Present Self (J.D. Meier)
• Teaching, learning and tearing your hair out (Oren Eini)
• How elite DevOps teams secure the software supply chain (Sandra Gittlen)
• DevOps on AWS: Everything You Need to Know (Anthony Neto)
• The Cloud Architecture of the Next 10 Years (Ala Shiban)
• Open format: how to read Sketch files and convert to JSON (Sketch Team)
• How to Flatten git Commits (David Walsh)
• Exploring Different Leadership Models And Discovering The One That Best Suits You (Deanna deBara)
• Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money (Johanna Rothman)
• 3 Things to Consider When Making Decisions to Get Shit Done In 2022 (Kim Scott)
• Solving the wrong problem (Rinat Abdullin)
• Codeless != Designless (Steve Fenton)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Surface Duo: Happy Two Year (Craig Dunn)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Modern C for Absolute Beginners (Rob Irving)
• .NET Core Podcast – Umbraco 9 and NET 5 with Sebastiaan Janssen (Jamie Taylor)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 56: Best Of 2021 (Ben Nadel)
• React Native Radio 223 – What’s the difference between React.js and React Native? (Mark Rickert, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Assessing what we can’t measure in the Scrum Master role | Matthew Green and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The “knows-all, decides-all” Product Owner anti-pattern | Matthew Green (Vasco Duarte)
• .NET MAUI Community Standup – Comet with Clancey (Maddy Montaquila, David Ortinau & James Clancey)
• VS2022 17.1 Preview 2 and .NET MAUI Preview 11 Updates: For Real Now! (Gerald Versluis)
• Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Directly Connected Mode Breakdown | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Lior Kamrat)
• Rocket 367: Verdicts (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 028: Crack the Leadership Code with Alain Hunkins (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• Windows Weekly 758: An Encyclopedia of Chipsets (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 338: Time Machine and Index Funds (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Microsoft’s OSPO year in review—what we’ve learned (Emma Irwin)
• The Bash is over, but the season lives a little longer (Slate)

Database

• SQL TIps – How To Compare Encrypted Password In SQL Server? (Rajat Jaiswal)
• Testing SQL Server Edge and Docker on the latest MacBooks (Aaron Bertrand)
• Deploying SQL Server on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (Geert Van Teylingen)
• Creating an Azure Data Explorer Table and Creating an ADX Database (David Giard)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• How to Manage Microsoft Teams Meeting Recording Auto-Expiration (Brad Gussin)

Miscellaneous

• VW sets a date for the reveal of its production-ready electric Microbus (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• New image editor starts rolling out in Windows 11 Photos app (Arif Bacchus)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22526 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft PowerToys gets a new Always On Top feature and launcher web search (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Th Morning Brew #3384 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – January 7th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link