Dew Drop – April 5, 2022 (#3656)

Top Links

• C# Pattern Matching Explained (Patrick Smacchia)
• ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL – Part 1 (Matthew Groves)
• .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1 will reach End of Support on Apr 26, 2022 (Jamshed Damkewala)
• Replicating Foodora UI in .NET MAUI – Part 1 (Andreas Nesheim)
• Using GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio Code for C++ Development (Michael Price)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 358 – How to configure Azure Application Insights for a Web App in Visual Studio and Tip 359 – How to receive Azure Event Grid events in an Azure Function (Azure Team)
• What’s new in Svelte: April 2022 (Daniel Sandoval)
• Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance (Azure Team)
• ASP.NET DocumentEditor Deployment: Setting the APIRoute (Bjoern Meyer)
• Implementing OAuth2 Client credentials flow APP to APP security using Azure AD non interactive (Damien Bowden)
• The What, When, Why And How Of Next.js’ New Middleware Feature (Sam Poder)
• 8 Best Free Vue.js Courses for Beginners To Learn Online (Javin Paul)
• Part6: Using sharding to build multi-tenant apps using ASP.NET Core and EF Core (Jon P. Smith)
• Middleware in ASP.NET 6 – Conditionally Adding Middleware to the Pipeline (Matthew Jones)
• Azure Functions V4 Versus V3 (Meng Yang)
• Part 1 – Blazor WebAssembly Cookie Authentication [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• How to prevent email HTML injection in C# and .NET (Niels Swimberghe)
• Now in preview: Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors (Paul Nash)
• How are Windows Runtime GUIDs represented in JavaScript? (Raymond Chen)
• Empowering space development off the planet with Azure (Tom Keane)
• StackBlitz March 2022 Update (Sylwia Vargas)
• How to Access Query Strings in Minimal APIs (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ShadowRealms – an ECMAScript proposal for a better eval() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Make all properties optional using Partial in TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Things We Miss From Web 1.0 Websites—And What We Did About It (Genady Sergeev)
• Unlock Programmatic Control by Disabling Default Providers (Ian Wahbe)
• Are Go Generics Ready for Prime Time? (Mike Melanson)
• Web select makes copy and paste easier (Steve Fenton)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• What’s New in .NET MAUI: 2022 Volume 1 (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Action required: Update PostSharp before updating Visual Studio 2022 to v17.2 (Antonin Prochazka)
• What’s New in VS Code 1.66 (March 2022 Update) (David Ramel)
• C# Tip: Use Debug-Assert to break the debugging flow if a condition fails (Davide Bellone)
• How to Convert String to Title Case in C# and LINQ Basic Concepts in C# and How to Deserialize JSON Into Dynamic Object in C# and Timer in C# (Code Maze)
• #GitHubCopilot – Visual Studio 2022 support and Copilot Labs ! (Bruno Capuano)
• What I Want in Visual Studio 2022 That Isn’t There (Jesse Liberty)
• What’s new in the latest Python Extension releases for Visual Studio Code? (Maourice Gonzalez)
• How to Send SMS without a Phone Number using C# .NET and an Alphanumeric Sender ID (Niels Swimberghe)
• Introducing Akka.Hosting – HOCONless Akka.NET Configuration and Runtime (Aaron Stannard)
• GDI/User Object Leak Tracking – The Easy Way (Alois Kraus)
• Advanced Code Display with Code Detection API (Sponsored) (David Walsh)
• Update to LEADtools Version 22 – PDF Form Fields, Barcode Enhancements, and more! (Halah Villalobos)
• Composable Delegates (Paul Michaels)
• The std::invoke function does more than invoke functions (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• DevOps Dojo: Lean Product – Part 1 and DevOps Dojo: Lean Product – Part 2 (DevOps Dojo)
• 51 Links and Resources for Technical Teams, Developers, Managers and Architects (John Kilmister)
• Working on two git branches at once with git worktree (Andrew Lock)
• Introducing Environment Forking and Pull Requests (Ankit Jaggi)
• FakeAuth to support COBOL (Caleb Jenkins)
• How to Build a Zero-Trust Culture (Jennifer Riggins)
• Essential Git Commands (Leonardo Maldonado)
• Automated Tests With Feature Toggles (Louise Gibbs)
• Dev Environments Under the Hood (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using Containers to move from local to Remote Development (Olivia Guzzardo)
• Config as Code strategies (Steve Fenton)
• Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022 (Thomas Betts, Eran Stiller, Vasco Veloso, Daniel Bryant & Sarah Wells)
• The engineering director shadow experience at GitLab (William Arias)
• Top 4 ways to create a mockup for your design (Sketch Team)
• The Present Bias: Why You Keep Sabotaging Your Future—And How to Stop (Amy Rigby)
• Public Preview for App Center Build Export (Andrei Kamenev)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Day 13: 100 Days of SwiftUI (John Kevin Losito)
• Learn about Amplify API GraphQL Model Helper For Flutter (Mo Malaka)
• SwiftLint Now Supports Swift 5.6 (Sergio De Simone)
• Can You Make Video Games with JavaScript? (Janus Atienza)
• Build your next hit with Unity Gaming Services (Garinne Bechakjian)
• Comparing Go vs. C in embedded applications (Marcin Pasinski)
• HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity (Pete D.)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• The InfoQ Podcast – 2022 InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends (Eran Stiller, Vasco Veloso, Sarah Wells & Daniel Bryant)
• Revision Path – Russell Toynes (Maurice Cherry)
• Using LINQ to Query MongoDB in a .NET Core Application (MongoDB Team)
• OnPodcast Episode 67: Build 2022 confirmed, our expectations for April 5 Windows event, & more (Podcast OnMSFT)
• Merge Conflict – 300 Episodes of Merge Conflict! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Track Users Location in the Background with Android and Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Fragmented, The Software Podcast 226: The Reunion – Themes, VS Code and More (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
• Random.Code() – Trying C# 11 Features in Rocks and FreeCodeSession – Episode 353 and Random.Code() – Even More Performance Work in Rocks (Jason Bock)
• Asp.Net Monsters #246 – Don’t use OpenWriteAsync()… probably (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 430: The new version of React, great tools for learning CSS, and the double standard for female engineers (Eira May)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Ondřej Dvořák – BAI 2022 – Agile Methods for Lawyers and Legal Support for Ukrainian Refuges (Agile Toolkit)
• Talk Python to Me #359: Lifecycle of a machine learning project (Michael Kennedy)
• UI Breakfast Episode 236: Customer Development with Michele Hansen (Jane Portman)
• How do I get a job in Mixed Reality? #Shorts (Microsoft Developer)
• Exclusive for Education | Manage Windows 11 SE with Surface Laptop SE (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 59 – Zero Trust: So Easy Even a Government Can Do It? (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast 218 – The Value of Taking Breaks (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 034 – CDK for Terraform with Sebastian Korfmann (David Isbitski)
• The Amp Hour #584 – Software for Rockets with Charles Aylward (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Daniel Markham: How to Share What You Know – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 187 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Serverless Chats Episode #131: Security in the Cloud with Merritt Baer and Megan O’Neil (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• Tabs and Spaces Podcast 204 – The Bear Necessities (feat. Shachar Langbeheim) (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)
• The 6 Figure Developer Podcast – DevSecOps with Sandy Carielli & Janet Worthington (John Callaway)
• PPP 353 | The Not So Simple Art of Doing Less (Andy Kaufman)

Community & Events

• Meet the top 3 teams of the 2022 Imagine Cup! and Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Japhlet Nwamu (MS Student Developer Team)
• Google Developer Student Club 2022 Lead applications are open! (Erica Hanson)
• Two trailblazing women share their stories on navigating tech and making learning fun (Jasmin Askew)
• Use your uniqueness as a superpower and other advice for women seeking careers in tech (Kyla Gradin Dahl)

Database

• How to get length of Text, NText and Image columns in SQL Server (Greg Robidoux)
• Quest Database Training Days 2022 are Back (Pinal Dave)
• Managing RavenDB indexes in production, a DevOps guide (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Updating PowerShell version in Azure CloudShell (Dennes Torres)
• How to Write and Run a PowerShell Script File on Windows 11 (Ivan Mirchev)
• On Preferences and Scopes (James O’Neill)

Miscellaneous

• Empowering families through every stage, phase and season (Ami Silverman)
• ‘We Interviewed a Coder. Someone Else Showed Up for the Job’ (David Cassel)
• Microsoft PowerToys v0.57.0 is now available for download (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Two top Truth Social execs resign from the company (Makena Kelly)
• This ‘hands-on’ AI-based test project will help ensure astronaut gloves are safe in space (Tom Keane)
• Surface Duo OS, Swiftkey, Phone Link, Microsoft Launcher now under one Microsoft Android org (Arif Bacchus)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3444 and The Morning Brew #3445 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2022-14) (Michael Eaton)
• C# Digest Issue #409 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #14, 2022 – Copilot for VS2022 and Copilot Labs (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 345 – 4th Apr 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #51 (Sam Basu)
• Friday Five: Azure Stack, Windows Server 2022, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | April 2022 (Rachel Appel)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.01.04 (April Edwards)
• The Overflow #119: Silicon Valley accurately reflects Silicon Valley (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• Reading Notes #501 (Frank Boucher)
• The Wolf Report – April 4th, 2022 and The Wolf Report – April 5th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience (Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle) – Referral Link