Dew Drop – February 14, 2022 (#3620)

Top Links

• Window App SDK Ecosystem Update (Zahara Kondo)
• Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET! (Beth Massi)
• Calling Windows APIs from React Native just got easier (Angela Zhang)
• Announcing TypeScript 4.6 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• React Native for Windows is helping Settings improve more quickly (Steven Moyes & Alexander Sklar)

Web & Cloud Development

• Add OpenID Connect to Angular Apps Quickly (Matt Raible)
• Using Unicode And Special Characters Within The content Property In CSS (Ben Nadel)
• Create or Generate Adobe PDF files in ASP.NET Core with C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Creating Multiple Resources with a Single Request in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
• Problems with online user authentication when using self sovereign identity (Damien Bowden)
• How to Use nextTick() in Vue (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• Isolated Azure Function in .Net 6 (Paul Michaels)
• How easily can you process events in AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions? Let’s try it out. (Richard Seroter)
• Host Static Web Sites for Free in Azure (Sameer Doshi)
• Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Second Refresh Release (Service Fabric Team)
• Customize the Enter and Shift+Enter Keys in Angular Rich Text Editor for Better Productivity (Thangavel E)
• Policy enforced deployments for your Kubernetes resources (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• How to build an HTML-only accordion — no JavaScript required! (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• ESLint v8.9.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Assertion Functions in TypeScript (Marius Schulz)
• Welcome to #30DaysOfPWA (Nitya Narasimhan)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Streaming videos to your Chromecast using Xamarin.Forms (Andreas Nesheim)
• Exploring WinUI Calendar Date Picker and Calendar DateRange Picker (Jegan R)
• How To Prevent Dark Mode In Xamarin.Forms (LucioMSP)
• Setting up a basic MVVM architecture in .NET MAUI (PieEatingNinjas)
• Windows App SDK 1.1 Due By Mid-2022 (Paul Thurrott)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET and C# Versions – 20th Anniversary ♥ (Niels Rasmussen)
• Operator Overloading in C# (Code Maze)
• Windows Dev Docs – Bite-sized C++ (Steven White)
• Microsoft announces end of support for older versions of Visual Studio (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The affair of the C# bang bang – !! – operator (Rob Miles)
• How to manually troubleshoot applications on Windows containers (Vinicius Apolinario)
• Notes on COM aggregation: How do you implement tear-offs in an aggregated object? (Raymond Chen)
• Typemock Isolator 9.1 Released! (Alon Sapozhnikov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• MSIX Predictions for 2022 (Bogdan Mitrache)
• 4 Must-know DevOps principles (GitLab Team)
• A Tech Debt balance sheet (Paul Hammant)
• Deploy Into Azure Using Pulumi and GitHub Actions (April Edwards)
• Tips for ensuring training effectiveness (Kelby Zorgdrager)
• Developer Productivity Tools: 17 Trending Apps You Need to Try (Alex Omeyer)
• 4 Effective Ways To Infuse Digital Dexterity Into Your Workforce (Dave Schafer)
• Radical Candor as fallback notch locator (Dimitri Glazkov)
• Define Your Onboarding plan for New Hires to Create Personal and Team Success (Johanna Rothman)
• What Are the Top 5 UI and UX Design Trends for 2022? (Katie Mikova)
• Building a UX Team (Stacey Warthen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Publishing Flutter Windows apps to Microsoft Partner Center with Codemagic (Souvik Biswas)
• Write better tests with the new Android testing guidance (Jose Alcérreca)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CodeNewbie S19:E2 – How to learn Swift and get into iOS development (Marc Aupont) (CodeNewbie Team)
• InfoQ Podcast: Improving Software Engineering Practices using Essence with Ian Spence (Ian Spence)
• Developer Tea – 3 Habits For Your First 30 Days As A New Engineer On A Team (Jonathan Cutrell)
• OnPodcast Episode 62: Leaked upcoming Windows 11 features, Microsoft Defender Preview app & more (OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 293: dotnet-trace with dotnet-monitor through dotnet-dsrouter (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: The realities of Amazon’s pay increase; inside Microsoft’s HoloLens business (Todd Bishop)
• AWS Developer Podcast Episode 027 – Serverless on AWS with Julian Wood (David Isbitski)
• React Native Radio 226 – GraphQL in React Native (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Eve Porcello)
• Yet Another Podcast – C# 10 & Documentation: Bill Wagner (Jesse Liberty)
• Tech News: .NET from Xamarin to MAUI, Visual Studio 2022, GitHub Actions, Microsoft Teams, AngularJS (SSW TV)
• Why did you call it the Windows App SDK | One Dev Question and Will the Windows App SDK change the requirements or process of being in the store | One Dev Question (Andrew Clinick)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – #CBJAM 22 Recap (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Meta Cast 215 – Leaving a Company Like a Pro (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• JS Party – A deep-dive on Vite (Evan You, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
• The Amp Hour #577 – Product Lifecycle Maintenance with Michael Corr (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• UI Breakfast Podcast – BDTP. Web Copy for SaaS with Ekaterina Howard (Jane Portman)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 341 and Random.Code() – Using Roslyn to Review Roslyn (Jason Bock)
• Next-gen web services with Shawn Wildermuth – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 180 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Serverless Chats Episode #124: Self-Provisioning Runtimes with Shawn “swyx” Wang (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• AGL 247: Changing from the Inside Out with Erika Andersen (John Rouda)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 414 – China’s only female Apache member on the rise of open source in China (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• The Unlikely Success of a Copy Paste Developer (Iris Classon)
• Are you an Insider? (Dan Usher)
• Celebrating Black women founders working in STEM (Marta Krupinska)
• Dev Advocates Weigh in on the Dev Community, Vocation & Exciting 2022 Projects (Viktoria Kuzmanova)

Database

• Feature comparison of Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on a VM (Olga Molocenco)
• SQL IS NULL And IS NOT NULL Operators (Jin Vincent Necesario)

PowerShell

• PowerShell script for monitoring Windows Service memory utilization (Kapil Khandelwal)
• PowerShell: The Basics (Montè)

Miscellaneous

• Free ‘n Easy – A New Introduction To Scratch Programming (Sue Gee)
• Microsoft quietly released a little feature and suddenly it caused outrage (Chris Matyszczyk)
• SerenityOS: Building an Operating System from Scratch (David Cassel)
• Microsoft releases Powertoys 0.55.2 with bug fixes (Kevin Okemwa)
• Some quick thoughts about writing a first book (Matt Lacey)
• Why Yammer? Perspectives from community professionals (Rebecca Jackson)
• paint.net 4.3.8 beta build 8079 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3409 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five: App Branding With GitHub, Azure Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Wolf Report – February 14th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• F# Weekly #7, 2022 – End of .NET 5.0, VS 2019 and Start of F# Events Calendar (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #402 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• 9 New React and JavaScript Links for February 2022 (Chris Coyier)
• The Overflow #112: Psychological safety for high-performing teams (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• Reading List 286 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

 Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation: Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF, 2nd Edition (Seridan Yuen) – Referral Link