Dew Drop – February 8, 2022 (#3616)

Top Links

• Are you a conf organizer looking to lead an inclusive CFP (Call for Proposal) process? Or would you like to source a diverse & inclusive applicant pool? Check out this Playbook for Inclusive Virtual Events! (Betsy Weber)
• Building a Master-Detail page with WinUI 3 and MVVM (Diederik Krols)
• Testing Adaptive Styling, Layouts & Controls (Part 3) (Uno Platform Team)
• Improvements and Optimizations for Interpolated Strings – A Look at New Language Features in C# 10 (Matthias Koch)
• Implementing In-App Subscriptions in iOS & Android with no backend servers (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Minimal APIs, Blazor Improvements, and Tools Updates in ASP.NET Core 6 (Antonio Liccardi)
• Localization in ASP.NET Core Web API (Aram Tchekrekjian)
• Top 10 Features in Angular 13 Every Developer Should Know (Bhagya Vitana)
• GET Azure Blob with Subtle Crypto Signed Pure JavaScript (Jim Gray)
• Creating a distributed Service Broker application with Docker (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• Angular Basics: Setting Up App Navigation Inside an Angular Component File (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
• Introducing the Dialog Element (Tim Nguyen)
• Make Your First FHIR Client —within One Hour! (Marten Smits)
• Send Scheduled SMS with Go and Twilio (Miguel Grinberg)
• Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6 (Oleksii Nikiforov)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Xamarin.UWP deployment failure: 0x80073D1F (András Tóth)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: Exception handling with WHEN clause (Davide Bellone)
• Visitor Design Pattern in C# (Bartosz Jarmuż)
• Migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core (.NET 6) – Detailed Guide (Sanjay)
• Download, parse, and store SSL certificates in C# (Thomas Ardal)
• NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: a source generator for enum performance (Andrew Lock)
• On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Humble Dialog Box (Martin Fowler)
• Unit Tests for Expected Exceptions (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Copy Dashboard Public Preview Part 3 (Dan Hellem)
• Git fetch performance improvements in 2021, Part 2 (Jacob Vosmaer)
• Running end-to-end tests in Jenkins (Matthew Casperson)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introduction to game design (Bogdan Sandu)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• GCast 120: Analyzing Time Series Data with KQL (David Giard)
• Revision Path – Omari Souza (Maurice Cherry)
• Tech News: EF Core 6 released, Windows 11 updates Notepad, Apple to release autonomous car (SSW TV)
• Create a Signed and Publishable .NET MAUI Android App in VS2022 (Gerald Versluis)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Learning how to be patient as a Scrum Master, helping teams in their own learning journey | Sadia Dibbens (Vasco Duarte)
• How have notifications been improved in the Windows App SDK? | One Dev Question (Nicu Parente)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 51 – Policy Intelligence: More Fun and Useful than it Sounds! (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Office Add-Ins with Juan Balmori (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• CodeStories Berlin | Mixed Reality for Cultural Heritage (Seth Juarez & Zaid Zaim)
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 152 – Hugo Bernier (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 413 – There’s no coding Oscars. Write software that works (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Learn Live Azure, Feature Flags and ASP NET Core Microservices apps (Iris Classon)
• How Oracle’s Diversity and Inclusion efforts matched my career values (Rachel Walters)
• Join us at the Build in the Open Happy Hour to connect and collaborate with Open Source enthusiasts (Katie Fritsch)
• Extending the Viva Connections Dashboard with Custom and 3rd Party Apps – MidDay Café LIVE! (Mike Gannotti)
• Google Summer of Code 2022 is open for mentor organization applications! (Stephanie Taylor)
• Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Fahad Ashiq (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

• The Curious Case of… data compression caching (Paul S. Randal)
• Migrating SQL Data into Azure Cosmos DB (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Using Stored Procedure in SELECT Statement (Pinal Dave)
• Azure DB for MySQL – Storage v1 vs v2 (Arun Sirpal)
• Eight Azure SQL configurations you may have missed (Dennes Torres)
• Code scanning and Ruby: turning source code into a queryable database (Nick Rolfe)
• RavenDB: Practical Considerations for ACID/MVCC Storage Engines (Oren Eini)
• How It Works: TSQL TRY/CATCH Behavior Fooled Me (Bob Dorr)
• Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down (Adi Gelvan)

PowerShell & Terminal

• How to install PowerShell 7 on Windows 10 for easy accessibility (Dave W. Shanahan)
• Windows Terminal Text Rendering Revamp: ‘We Were Wrong’ (David Ramel)
• Fixing PowerShell on Windows PE for ARM64 (Michael Niehaus)

Miscellaneous

• DuckDuckGo founder says privacy needs to be as simple as a single button press (Joel Khalili)
• Why Windows isn’t ready for Arm developers (Aaron Franke)
• How to write a technical book (Rob Miles)
• Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Microsoft starts testing secret Windows 11 features like wallpaper stickers and tablet mode (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week (2022-6) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #43 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #492 (Frank Boucher)
• The Wolf Report – February 8th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• [Last Week in .NET #80] – Time Flies When You’re Shipping Code (George Stocker)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross Platform Development (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link