Dew Drop – February 4, 2022 (#3614)

Top Links

• What’s New in Flutter 2.10 (Chris Sells)
• Announcing Flutter for Windows (Tim Sneath)
• Dart 2.16: Improved tooling and platform handling (Michael Thomsen)
• Dual-screen gaming on Microsoft Surface Duo (Nguyen Thanh Tung)
• Visual Studio Code January 2022 (VS Code Team)
• Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

• Optimally Configuring Open Telemetry Tracing for ASP.NET Core (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• WebStorm 2021.3.2 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
• 10 JavaScript Naming Conventions Every Developer Should Know (Indrajith Ekanayake)
• How to get the optimal image size for web (Joel Hans)
• Executing Remote Commands with Pulumi (David Flanagan)
• Offline-Capable Progressive Web Apps for the Modern Web (Joe Meyer)
• Unminifying function names in DevTools performance profiles (Jose Leal Chapa)
• Integrating Event Grid with GraphQL (Hot Chocolate) API (MJ Schanne)
• Introducing Postman’s WebSocket Echo Service (Vaishnavi Challa)
• Smart Step-Into for Microservices Debugging (Yuriy Artamonov)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Build a Cross-Platform Crypto App With Telerik UI for .NET MAUI—Part 1 (Deyan Terziyski)
• Don’t give up on XAML yet. It’s still better than doing everything in code. (Matt Lacey)
• Create an Interactive BPMN Editor Using the WPF Diagram Control (Sarathkumar V)
• Get Started with Shell Using .NET MAUI Preview 12 (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Xamarin.Forms MVVM DataTemplate with IndicatorView (Toby Field)
• Syncing Local Database with OneDrive Personal (Part 2) (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Named Arguments and Optional Parameters in C# (Code Maze)
• C# Wants to Become The MOST POPULAR Programming Language in 2022 (Dotnetsafer)
• A closer look at the stack guard page (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 Preview 5 addresses several bugs (Kunal Chowdhury)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to deploy MSIX/AppX Packages with Microsoft Intune (Alex Marin)
• Agile Book Club: Chartering (James Shore)
• Why Should You Even Care About Your Future Self? (J.D. Meier)
• Using Multiple SSH Keys at the same time – GitHub, BitBucket, etc. (Bryan Hogan)
• Open format: using GitHub Actions to work with Sketch documents (Sketch Team)
• Five ways to create a continuous learning culture within a psychologically safe environment (Lori Colston)
• Test Studio Step-By-Step: Scheduling Tests (Peter Vogel)
• Make GitHub Project Time Tracking Work For You (not the other way around) and Github Estimates: A Project Manager’s Guide to Making Better Forecasts (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• XD to Flutter v4: Better Layout Code (Grant Skinner)
• JetPack Window Manager Improves Foldable Support (Kay Ewbank)
• Microsoft Reportedly Killed HoloLens 3 (Paul Thurrott)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Unix and C History with Brian Kernighan (Rob Irving)
• .NET Core Podcast – C#10 and .NET 6 with Mark J. Price (Jamie Taylor)
• CodeNewbie S18:E9 – DevNews: Potential Effects of a Cyberwar Between Russia and Ukraine, a Coding Bootcamp Stands Strong In Afghanistan, and More (Josh Puetz, Jamshid Hashimi & Hector X. Monsegur)
• Hanselminutes – Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI (Scott Hanselman)
• Talk Python to Me #351: Machine Learning Ethics and Laws Panel (Michael Kennedy)
• Migrate SQL Server to Azure | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
• Flutter 2.10 | What’s new? (Codepur)
• How to use Praise in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Learning to listen to, and work with emotions in an Agile team | Nilesh Makan (Vasco Duarte)
• Perspectives in Leadership: Bath bombs don’t cure burnout with Dr. Tracy Brower (Pluralsight)
• Rocket 371: Spotify Kerfuffle (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• What are your favorite sessions from the .NET Conference? (Scott Hunter)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Ep. 412 – Moving from CEO back to IC: A chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on his love for code (Eira May)
• Random.Code() – Upgrading a WinForms App to NET 6 (Jason Bock)
• Windows Weekly 762: Diagonal Shards (Paul Thurrott)
• Is Dependency Injection Broken? – Adventures in Angular 339 (Charles Max Wood)
• Live Coding – Uno Platfrom WebAssembly – Virtual keyboard and Battery Manager (Martin Zikmund)

Community & Events

• DockerCon: What Makes a Successful CFP Submission (Peter McKee)
• MSSQLTips.com Authors and Rookie of 2021 (Edgewood Solutions)
• We’re Heading Back to the Ranch (Eric Wilson)
• The GeekWire Awards return: Nominations now open, table sponsorships available (John Cook)
• Announcing Season of Docs 2022 (Kassandra Dhillon & Erin McKean)
• Guide to Presidents Day Weekend in Greater Philadelphia 2022 (Visit Philly)
• Change in Melinda French Gates’ giving plan signals aspirations beyond Gates Foundation (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Build SQL Server CLR Triggers (Daniel Farina)
• Connecting to Single Server MySQL (Arun Sirpal)
• SQL Server Regular Expressions Library Sample (Mitch van Huuksloot)
• SQL Monitor: Time For a 2nd Look (Grant Fritchey)

PowerShell

• PowerShell script to help migrate from DTU to vCore model of Azure SQL DB. (Mitch van Huuksloot)
• Get CISA vulnerabilities report (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Learn Python with these 11 modules (Chris Noring)
• Async Rust in 2022 (Niko Matsakis & Tyler Mandry)
• What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• #Windows11 – Microsoft Power Toys, ️ Mouse Utilities rocks (Bruno Capuano)
• How to determine if application is 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 10+ (Mark Pahulje)
• PreEmptive 101 (Michelle Pruitt)
• Steam finally shows a game’s size before you click install and Microsoft to test new experimental Windows 11 features (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3403 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #697 (Mary Lou)

The Geek Shelf

 Git for Programmers: Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link