Dew Drop – March 29, 2022 (#3652)

Top Links

• Windows App SDK Tutorial—Create a simple photo viewer with WinUI 3 (C#) (Steven White)
• Interactive Quick Tour in Xamarin Forms/MAUI (Charlin Agramonte)
• Azure DevOps: “New Boards Hub” Public Preview (Dan Hellem)
• Uno Platform – Build a Todo App (Steven Giesel)
• GitHub Essentials with Rider (Rachel Appel)

Web & Cloud Development

• #ICYMI 002 – Learn from the community: React web app and Azure QnA bot to centralize learning resources (Ayca Bas)
• Locale Aware Sorting in JavaScript (Elijah Manor)
• Middleware in ASP.NET 6 – Order of Operations (Matthew Jones)
• Announcing v5.0.0 of the Pulumi AWS Provider (Paul Stack)
• Go from the beginning – working with log messages (Chris Noring)
• 6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development (Daniel Schwarz)
• Cloud-Native Application Security (Lindsay Smith)
• Uploading Blobs with the V12 Storage SDK and Copying Blobs with the V12 Storage SDK (Mark Heath)
• Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3 (Michelle Barker)
• Hot Chocolate GraphQL Pagination Using UseOffsetPaging Middleware [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Announcing Postman’s Launch of the API Lab at BITS Pilani to Promote API Literacy (Postman Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to perform CRUD operations with Entity Framework Core and PostgreSQL (Davide Bellone)
• StringBuilder in C# (Code Maze)
• Search videos through the YouTube Data API from C# (Thomas Ardal)
• What does .NET 5 end of support mean for you? (Maourice Gonzalez)
• Different Ways to Insert Images (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Transitional Architecture (Martin Fowler)
• Task Start Times & Your Projects! (Microsoft Project Team)
• How To Simplify and Accelerate Future Feature Development (Peter Vogel)
• How to secure your end-to-end supply chain on GitHub (Zachary Steindler)
• The metaverse is coming. Here are the cornerstones for securing it. (Charlie Bell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Microsoft Offers Visual Studio 2019 in New Azure VM for Game Development (Azure Team)
• Gamedev tips to keep players leaning forward in their seat (Adam Axler)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Revision Path – Kevin Carroll (Maurice Cherry)
• .NET MAUI Blazor Switch Language In-App: Here’s How! (Gerald Versluis)
• Take your first steps with C# (Bob Tabor)
• All about using channels in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• How much real experience do you get as an intern at Microsoft? #Shorts (Eleanor Lewis)
• Productive C# Podcast 21 – Modern Software Engineering (Andrea Angella)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 58 – SOC is Not Dead: How to Grow and Develop Your SOC for Cloud and Beyond (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The Amp Hour #583 – The Smart Grid with Paul Zawada (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Women in Technology Podcast – Change Happens One Step at a Time (WiT Team)
• The 6 Figure Developer – WireMock with Andrew Morgan (John Callaway)

Community & Events

• Get to Know Pulumi’s UX Team (Anita Trimbur)
• Announcing the finalists in the 2022 GeekWire Awards: Voting now open in a dozen categories (John Cook)

Database

• Getting Started with SQL Server Developer Edition (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Multi-Tenancy with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Quick Tip: Remove CONVERTCAST from your WHEREJOIN clauses (Monica Rathbun)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Bookmarks in Yammer are now available (Valeria Furlong)
• Microsoft Graph API support for new content type sync enhancements (SharePoint Team)

PowerShell

• Azure Storage: Mapping File Shares and PowerShell drives (Dennes Torres)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3440 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2022-13) (Michael Eaton)
• AWS Week in Review – March 28, 2022 (Marcia Villalba)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #50 (Sam Basu)
• The Wolf Report – March 29th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Reading Notes #500 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design Complete Study Guide: Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 (William Panek & Benjamin Perkins) – Referral Link