Dew Drop – February 21, 2022 (#3626)

Top Links

• #30DaysOfPWA #04 – Make Progressive Web Apps Reliable and #05 – Make Progressive Web Apps Work Offline and #06 – Make Progressive Web Apps Capable and #07 – Developing Progressive Web Apps (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Cake v2.1.0 released (C. Augusto Proiete)
• Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI Android app in Azure DevOps (Andreas Nesheim)
• Improve C# code performance with Span (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Download: .NET 7 Preview 1, Sexy Notepad, Modern iPods and more (Christina Warren)

Web & Cloud Development

• You Can throw() Anything In JavaScript – And Other async/await Considerations (Ben Nadel)
• Implementing authorization in Blazor ASP.NET Core applications using Azure AD security groups (Damien Bowden)
• Connecting a Blazor App to Swagger API (Dave Upton)
• Detect Dark Mode Preference with JavaScript (David Walsh)
• Vue.js For Beginners (Eric Hu)
• A Complete, Interactive Guide to CSS Flexbox (Johnny Simpson)
• Diagnosing an ASP.NET Core hard crash (Jon Skeet)
• Mini book: The Angular Mini-Book (Matt Raible)
• Angular Basics: Using Query Params in Angular Routing (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
• Reading an Azure Dead Letter Queue with Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus (Paul Michaels)
• Pros and Cons of Using JavaScript Interop in Blazor (Saravanan G)
• Receive Daily News Emails in Node.js with Twilio SendGrid (Vanshika Rana)
• Streamlining self-hosting with Chocolatey, Nuget, Owin and Topshelf – part 2 (Darrel Miller)
• Blocking XREAD From A Redis Stream Using StackExchange.Redis (Mike Hadlow)
• .NET 7 WebAssembly Plans: Mixed-Mode AOT, Multi-Threading, Web Crypto (David Ramel)
• What are wrapper objects for primitive values? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Automatic Class Sorting with Prettier (Adam Wathan)
• Convert XML to JSON using XSLT (Darrel Miller)
• Thoughts On Markdown (Knut Melvær)
• 10 Top Audio APIs (Joy Culbertson)
• Working with Dates and Time in Go (Manoj Debnath)
• Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix (Ankush Gulati, David Gevorkyan, Michael Clark & Gokhan Ozer)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 2) (Marco Siccardi)
• Validating Lists with Plugin.ValidationRules 1.4 – All new features (Luis Matos)
• Latest updates to the Windows developer docs (Windows Dev Docs Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• F# Introduction from a C# Developer (Kevin Logan)
• Introducing C# 10: Structs parameterless constructor and instance field initializer (Anthony Giretti)
• Interactive Notebooks with C# (Bruno Sonnino)
• How to Populate an Array With the Same Value in C# and How to Convert Int to String in C# and List Collection in C# (Code Maze)
• How To Set Up Selenium on Visual Studio (Ganesh Hegde)
• COM asynchronous interfaces, part 5: The unreliable server (Raymond Chen)
• Building .NET project docs with DocFX on GitHub Pages (James Croft)
• What Is New In .NET 6.0 (Mahesh Chand)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Reminiscence of a Scrum Master (Part 5) (Frank Hubin)
• Add tasks to your To Do list right in the SwiftKey keyboard (Justin Iftime)
• Trello vs. Asana vs. Monday: Which Work Management Tool Works Best For Your Teams? (Lydia Durkovic)
• RSS to Readme – A GitHub Action that updates a section of a README from an RSS feed (Jason Etcovitch)
• Development: Git Clone a Project (Rob Reilly)
• Deploy and Manage Your App at Scale: Tips and Strategies (Mike Hostetler)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Apple’s “realityOS” surfaces in GitHub commits, App Store logs (Samuel Axon)
• Placing holograms on any surface using the MRTK surface magnetism (Joost van Schaik)
• Discontinuing Kotlin synthetics for views (Márton Braun)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CodeNewbie S19:E3 – Why Python is still one of the most popular coding languages (Meredydd Luff) (CodeNewbie Team)
• OnPodcast Special: Chatting with Microsoft Employee Richard Hay (OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 294: Hello .NET 7, C# 11, and !! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Coding After Work – Planning, designing, and coding a Blazor site from scratch part 15 (Jessica Engstrom & Jimmy Engstrom)
• Server-less DevOps with Allen Helton – Adventures in DevOps 105 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• The AI Show: Ep 51 | NVIDIA DeepStream development with Microsoft Azure (Seth Juarez, Paul DeCarlo & Alvin Clark)
• Building a Wordle Clone LIVE with .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
• The Work Item #49 – Product Management in Government, with Director of Product Management for the City and County of San Francisco, Adrianna Tan (Den Delimarsky)
• Meta Cast 216 – How To Handle This Crazy Job Market (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 343 (Jason Bock)
• Serverless Chats Episode #125: Configuration over Code with Eric Johnson (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• AGL 248: Lead Well with Ken Falke (John Rouda)
• MJFChat: The Past, Present and Future of .NET (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Run Your Toolchain in the Browser – Adventures in Angular 340 (Charles Max Wood & Subrat Mishra)

Community & Events

• Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Bill Penberthy (David McCarter)
• Docker Captain Take 5 – Martin Terp (Eva Bojorges)
• #Event – Introduction to GitHub in Visual Studio Code at @msftreactor (Bruno Capuano)
• ML Olympiad: Globally Distributed ML Competitions by the Community (Hee Jung)
• Joel Spolsky on Structuring the Web with the Block Protocol and A Tentative Well-Wishing for 20 Years of .NET (Mike Melanson)
• Imposter syndrome – a coin with 2 sides? (Matt Lacey)
• Harry Potter: The Seven Coolest Things to See & Do at the World-Premiere Exhibit (Visit Philly)
• Syncfusion: From Inception to Today (Tres Watkins)

Database

• Remove Key Lookup – SQL in Sixty Seconds #194 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• SharePoint Framework v1.14 – What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

• Install language in Windows 11 using PowerShell (Kapil Arya)

Miscellaneous

• Satya Nadella: Microsoft has “permission to build the next Internet” (Richard Waters)
• EV batteries could complicate recovery of burning cargo ship with thousands of cars (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Want to run Android apps on Windows 11? Here’s the hardware requirements (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Epic Games is making hundreds of temp testers into full employees with benefits (Emma Roth)
• Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3414 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five: Excel Podcast, Azure Kubernetes Insight, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Overflow #113: Top-paying tech jobs (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• F# Weekly #8, 2022 – 20 years of #dotnet, .NET 7 Preview 1 (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #403 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 339 – 18th Feb 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• The Wolf Report – February 21st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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