Dew Drop – March 18, 2022 (#3645)

Top Links

• Intro to Figma for .NET Developers (Uno Platform Team)
• Microsoft Surface Duo Android Emulator update (Andrei Paval)
• MFractor Now Available For Visual Studio Windows 2022 (Matthew Robbins)
• C++ Modules in CMake with Visual Studio (Will Buik)
• Cancellation, Part 4: Polling (Stephen Cleary)
• Visual Studio 25th Celebration (Visual Studio Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Update your Azure SDK libraries by 31 March 2023 (Azure Team)
• How to Build a Progress Bar in JavaScript Using a Linear Gauge (Chad Church)
• Azure CLI MS Graph Migration – (Beta) (Chase Wilson)
• Introducing the Brand-New Auth0 Vue SDK (Steve Hobbs)
• Automatically starting a server when starting a debug session in VS Code (Chris Heilmann)
• Go from the beginning – Structs (Chris Noring)
• Making WebViews work for the Web (Dominique Hazaël-Massieux)
• Introducing the Google Forms API (Christian Schalk)
• How to Build a Dynamic FHIR Implementation Guide (Matthijs Van der Wielen)
• OWA Takes on Apple’s Browser Ban for PWA Parity (Mike Melanson)
• 10 Quick Tips I Have Learned Using TypeScript (Nada Rifki)
• Part-2 Create A Microservice For The Products Endpoint[.NET6 Microservice Series] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Retro-specifying fetch/performance (Noam Rosenthal)
• Node v16.14.2 (LTS) and Node v17.7.2 (Current) (Richard Lau)
• Image rebase and improved remote cache support in new BuildKit (Tonis Tiigi)
• ‘New release: Backstage 1.0’ (Francesco Corti)
• Go 1.18 Released With Generics And Fuzzing (Kay Ewbank)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Replicating a Fashion UI in Xamarin.Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
• Avalonia – Mobile is here (Dan Walmsley)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Deserialize a Complex JSON Object in C# .NET (Code Maze)
• T could be instantiated with a different subtype of constraint….. (Paul Cowan)
• Making our multiple-interface query more C++-like, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests (James Shore)
• Data ownership in a distributed system (Oren Eini)
• Top 5 User Story Estimation Techniques (Tyler Hakes)
• Azure Artifacts now provides native support to use packages from more repositories (Michael Omokoh)
• How to deploy your Web App from Azure Pipeline with restricted access. (Raven Zhang)
• Introducing Color Tokens — bringing Color Variables to your development projects and New in Sketch: Add descriptions to document updates (Sketch Team)
• How To Strike The Ideal Balance Of Autonomy On Your Team (And How Trello Can Help) (Daniel Kenitz)
• New data: What makes developers happy at work (David Gibson)
• Emphasis Principle of Design (Shirish Shikhrakar)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android 13 Developer Preview 2 (Dave Burke)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Swift and C++ Interoperability (Rob Irving)
• .NET Core Podcast – Open DotNet with Geoffrey Huntley (Jamie Taylor)
• Developer Tea – Better Report, Better Manager – One-On-One Frameworks: Focus and Fears (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Hanselminutes – Standup Comedy is a Real Job with Alex Falcone (Scott Hanselman)
• 50 Shades of DevOps – Adventures in DevOps 108 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• .NET MAUI Preview 14: Essentials Interfaces and MenuBarItems Party! (Gerald Versluis)
• .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 109: .NET MAUI (preview 14) is Released! (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
• Rocket 377: Here Comes The Sunshine Protection Act (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft’s Future for Windows Server (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 424 – McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 175: Skulpt with Meredydd Luff (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 038: The Revolution of Efficiency with Andrea Dallan (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• Learning with Luce: MongoDB and Unity (MongoDB)
• Windows Weekly 768: UI Bouillabaisse (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• We’re Hiring Developers for Microsoft Azure Developer Experience Team! (Jon Gallant)
• Node.js community update (Bethany Griggs & Michael Dawson)
• The March 2022 Windows 11 Bug Bash is underway! (Arif Bacchus)
• Celebrating Women in Tech With Fellow Progressers (Viktoria Kuzmanova)
• Unicorn Instagram: Catch up on the launch of Women of Jamstack (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• GitHub Release Radar · February 2022 Edition (Michelle Mannering)

Database

• Get Started using SSMS – Connect, Navigate, Query (Joe Gavin)
• SQL Variables in Scripts, Functions, Stored Procedures, SQLCMD and More (Daniel Calbimonte)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Available now: Upvote Answers in Yammer (Kaleem Rahman)

Miscellaneous

• Five ways how you can turn a Chromebook into a “Microsoft Book” (Arif Bacchus)
• Lego’s new Back to the Future set finally does the DeLorean right (Chaim Gartenberg)
• Appears to say: Microsoft Edge now provides auto-generated image labels (Travis Leithead)
• Microsoft Translator and Group Transcribe apps can help bridge the communication gap (Microsoft Translator Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3433 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 343 – 18th Mar 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• Collective #703 (Mary Lou)
• The Wolf Report – March 18th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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