Dew Drop – February 17, 2022 (#3624)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6 (Jordan Matthiesen)
• .NET Rocks! – The History of .NET with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Autoruns v14.09, ProcMon v3.89, Sysmon v13.33 and ZoomIt v5.10 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• #30DaysOfPWA #03 – Make Progressive Web Apps Installable (Nitya Narasimhan)
• InstantAPIs – A library that generates Minimal API endpoints for an Entity Framework context (Jeff Fritz)
• Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model (Shengyu Fu)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Kubernetes v1.23 support in AKS (Azure Team)
• Azure CLI: Delete Public IP from Existing NIC / VM (Chris Pietschmann)
• Server-side JavaScript for .NET developers – Part I (Node.js fundamentals) (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
• Concurrent Rendering in React 18 (Ifeoma Imoh)
• Building Serverless Web Apps With Blazor Chart—Part 1: Series Introduction and Part 2: Creating the Client and Part 3: Azure Functions API (Jim McGowan)
• Activity Enrichment in ASP.NET Core 6.0 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview (Julia Liuson)
• Unit Testing ASP.NET Core Web API Using xUnit [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Integrate ngrok into ASP.NET Core startup and automatically update your webhook URLs (Niels Swimberghe)
• Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise Tier: What’s New in Public Preview (Ryan Morgan)
• Scale ASP.NET Core Application using ThreadPool (Sanjay)
• W3C invites implementations of CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 4 (Xueyuan Jia)
• Making Google OAuth interactions safer by using more secure OAuth flows (Vikrant Rana & Badi Azad)
• TypeScript 4.6 Beta Improves Type Inference and Error Checking (Iskander Samatov)
• Encoding and escaping untrusted data to prevent injection attacks (Jason White)
• Link Your Docs to a Public Workspace for a Better Developer Experience (Joyce)
• Manage Your APIs Like a 4-Star Restaurant (Karthik Krishnaswamy)
• Memory tooling improvements in DevTools for Retainers (Seth Brenith)
• Learn how to create secure identity solutions using the Microsoft identity platform (Nick Adman)
• 100 Days of TypeScript (Day 7) (Pete O’Hanlon)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Windows App Development – Windows App SDK Title bar customization (Windows Dev Docs)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Convert String to Bool in C# (Code Maze)
• Visual Studio Code + Java Feb 2022 updates (Lee Stott)
• COM asynchronous interfaces, part 3: Abandoning the operation after a timeout (Raymond Chen)
• How YOU can build a great looking .NET Console app with Spectre (Chris Noring)
• Escaping Markdown Code Snippets and Inline Code as Markdown (Rick Strahl)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Building a NuGet Packages Architecture Part 3 – Adding packages to a feed using a pipeline in Azure DevOps (Imar Spaanjaaars)
• GitHub Diagrams with Mermaid (Steve Smith)
• Should you use Domain Driven Design? (Derek Comartin)
• TeamCity 2021.2.3 is here (Elena Dvoriadkina)
• How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship (Kelsey Bernius)
• How to secure your data in less than 10 minutes (Kristina Bravo)
• 7 Essential Time Management Strategies For Developers and 7 Steps To Making Accurate Software Estimates (Tyler Hakes)
• How to deploy your Netlify site with an Elgato Stream Deck (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introducing the Privacy Sandbox on Android (Anthony Chavez)
• Extract the Version Information of a Game with Unity and C# (Nic Raboy)
• DirectX: Updates in Graphics and Gaming (Hannah Fisher)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 353 – How to get started with Azure IoT Central (Azure Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• GCast 121: Analyzing Geographic Data with KQL (David Giard)
• Web Rush Episode 171: Stop worrying about JavaScript frameworks with Sasha Shynkevich (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business and team focus, the aspects that define Scrum Master success | Jan Neudecker (Vasco Duarte)
• Setting up your GitHub Enterprise licenses with Visual Studio subscriptions (Visual Studio Team)
• Your Daily Scrum: When Does a Scrum Team Change Their Sprint Length? (Ryan Ripley)
• Syntax Podcast – Potluck – Selling Themes × Which Browser Should Devs Use? × Where Do You Keep 2FA Codes? × Remix vs Svelte Kit × Getting Unstuck from Tutorial Hell (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 62: Note To Self (Ben Nadel)
• Design Details 429: Better Remote Onboarding (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 034: Injustice at Work – The 8 Stages of Alienation with Anton Gunn (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• What Is Remote – Containers – Adventures in .NET 107 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast – MassTransit and Open Source – with Chris Patterson (Dan Clarke)
• How to Become a Senior Developer with Shem Magnezi – JavaScript Jabber 521 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)

Community & Events

• Ruminations on 20 Years of being a .Net Developer (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Birth of .NET: Bill Gates Launches ‘VS.NET’ at Our VSLive! Conference (David Ramel)
• Reconnect Series: Richard M. Hicks (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• Sea of Nerds (Jim Bennett)
• Motivating girls to study STEM careers (Leomaris Reyes)
• JetBrains .NET Day Online 2022 – Call for Speakers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Anders Hejlsberg: Microsoft’s App Dev Star Maker Machinery (Darryl K. Taft)

Database

• Use Cases for WHILE and GOTO Loops with T-SQL for Time Series Data (Rick Dobson)
• Column by your name: The analytics database that skips the rows (Ryan Donovan)

PowerShell

• Creating Claims Rules in Active Directory Federated Services using PowerShell (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

• The Windows HDR Calibration app will soon be coming to PCs (Ana Marta Carvalho)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Why Lead Generation Doesn’t Work Well With Developers (DeveloperMedia)
• Microsoft redesigned Task Manager on Windows 11; introduces Efficiency Mode (Kunal Chowdhury)
• paint.net 4.3.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Topgolf on schedule to open Seattle-area high-tech golf entertainment complex later this year (Taylor Soper)
• Windows 11 is getting new touch gestures, Start menu folders, and much more (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3412 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• The Wolf Report – February 17th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• C++ Annotated January 2022: C++20 to Eliminate Runtime Bugs and Achieve Better Design, Full Test Coverage, and a New QML Compiler (Anastasia Kazakova)

The Geek Shelf

 The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link