Dew Drop – February 1, 2022 (#3611)

Top Links

• Microsoft PowerToys 0.55.0 gets three new utilities (Kunal Chowdhury)
• ReSharper 2021.3.3 and Rider 2021.3.3 Released (Asia Rudenko)
• Uno Platform Learning Resources for Beginners (Uno Platform Team)
• Entity Framework Core Inside Rider: UI Way (Rachel Appel)
• PSReadLine 2.2 RC (Jason Helmick)

Web & Cloud Development

• Upgrading to Optimizely 12 ASP.NET Core Identity (Sven-Erik Jonsson)
• Exactly Who Works with APIs? We Found Out (Matthew Reinbold)
• Add AWS Toolkit in Visual Studio 2019 / 2022 (Daniel Gomez Jaramillo)
• Building ASP.NET Core and EF Core hierarchical multi-tenant apps (Jon P. Smith)
• Integrate ngrok into ASP.NET Core startup and automatically update your webhook URLs (Niels Swimberghe)
• 7 Features of Blazor That Make It an Outstanding Framework for Web Development (Nishani Dissanayake)
• Angular Basics: Router Links and Wildcard Routing in Angular (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
• A Basic GraphQL CRUD Operation With .NET6 + Hot Chocolate(V 12) + SQL Database (Naveen Bommidi)
• Announcing Go 1.18 Beta 2 (Jeremy Faller & Steve Francia)
• Authentication in ASP.NET Core (Chris Noring)
• V8 release v9.9 (Ingvar Stepanyan)
• The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022 (Mamta Dalal)
• Updated Custom Translator Portal in Public Preview (Microsoft Translator Team)
• Two Years of Tanzu-Fueled Transformations (Rita Manachi)
• The complete beginners guide to dynamic programming (Wayne Bishop)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• How to Add .NET WinUI Controls to Your Desktop Applications (Greg Lutz)
• Adopting the .NET Generic Host (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• CRUD operations on PostgreSQL using C# and Npgsql (Davide Bellone)
• DateOnly and TimeOnly in C# (Ryan Miranda)
• Windows Graphics News – 2021 Q4 (Ana Marta Carvalho)
• .NET Framework vs .NET Core (.NET 5+) (Sanjay)
• Using Generated Methods Instead of Reflection (Ricardo Peres)
• Hello OmniSharp on .NET 6.0! (Filip W.)
• Solving the source generator ‘marker attribute’ problem – Part 2: Creating a source generator – Part 8 (Andrew Lock)
• Why does the Windows debugger engine show a bunch of hex digits after one of the DLL names? (Raymond Chen)
• Improve Code Quality with BannedSymbolAnalyzers (Max Hamulyák)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Why I Started Asking My Future Self “What Would Better Me Do?” (J.D. Meier)
• Octopus Deploy acquires Dist (Paul Stovell)
• Building a NuGet Packages Architecture Part 1 – Introduction (Imar Spaanjaaars)
• Building and deploying a Java app with Docker, Google, Azure, and Octopus (Terence Wong)
• How to create Symbols with Sketch (Sketch Team)
• The Experience Tax (‘Tine Zekis)
• Getting Started With GitHub Actions (Melissa Habit)
• Tips for task management across Microsoft (Microsoft Planner Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Studio Bumblebee Adds Support For ADB Over WiFi (Kay Ewbank)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• GCast 118: Managing Azure Data Explorer Tables with ADX Commands (David Giard)
• Revision Path – The Mailbag Episode (Maurice Cherry)
• GeekWire Podcast: Sony’s $3.6B Bungie deal, explained (Todd Bishop)
• React Native Radio 225 – Behind Our Decision to Cancel Chain React 2022 (Todd Werth, Gant Laborde, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
• On .NET – Web Forms Components for Blazor (James Montemagno & Jeff Fritz)
• Beautiful, Extensive and FREE Calendar Control for Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Tim Pearce & Juliette Carter (BBC) — Building a WebAssembly Runtime for BBC iPlayer (WebAssembly Summit)
• How to use MURAL in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 50 – The Epic Battle: Machine Learning vs Millions of Malicious Documents (Anton Chuvakin)
• Asp.Net Monsters – Improving Page Load Performance with Responsive Images (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Property Pane Portal project with Christophe Humbert (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Web Wednesday: TypeScript and GraphQL with Aaron Powell (Christopher Harrison)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Next stop, Cryptoland? (Eira May)
• UI Breakfast Podcast – BDTP. SaaS Content Strategy with Nicole Kow (Jane Portman)
• The 6 Figure Developer – All About Couchbase with Matt Groves (John Callaway)
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 151 – Paul Bullock (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
• Adaptive Cards community call – January 2022 (J.P. Roca)

Community & Events

• Things to Do for Black History Month in Philadelphia in 2022 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Converting between Data Types with the SQL Server CAST Function (Koen Verbeeck)
• MySQL Commands: Cheat Sheet of Common MySQL Queries (Developer.com Staff)
• Data Pages – the Foundation of SQL Server (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• Getting started with MySQL (Robert Sheldon)
• 5 Questions Answered – Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check (Pinal Dave)
• Creating Azure DB for MySQL – Single Server (Arun Sirpal)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Jumpstart Your Teams App Development with Teams Toolkit (Phil Jirsa)

PowerShell

• Default ParameterSetName (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• The overhead of Edge on Windows 11 (and 10) (Michael Niehaus)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week (2022-5) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #42 (Sam Basu)
• [Last Week in .NET #79] – Space Newts (George Stocker)
• Reading Notes #491 (Frank Boucher)
• The Wolf Report – February 1st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)