Dew Drop – April 8, 2022 (#3659)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 3 (Sergio Pedri)
• Introducing Qodana for Azure Pipelines (Anastasia Khramushina)
• Introducing Visual Studio Code Plugin for Couchbase Mobile (Jim Borden)
• ESLint your C# in VS Code with Roslyn Analyzers (John Reilly)
• Snackbar for dual-screens (Andrei Cirja)

Web & Cloud Development

• Angular Observable vs Angular Promise: Differences, Uses & How To Build Them (Desislava Dincheva)
• Introducing User Management in Postman via Azure AD SCIM (John Offenhartz)
• Part-2 Blazor WebAssembly Cookie Authentication With Facebook (Naveen Bommidi)
• Container Apps Quickstart using Bicep and Quickstart: Deploy an existing container image to Container Apps using Bicep (Jason Haley)
• Node v17.9.0 (Current) (Juan José Arboleda)
• Deploying CSP in Single Page Applications (Philippe De Ryck)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Stable channel release notes for Windows App SDK – Version 1.0.2 Servicing Release (Windows Dev Docs Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Answer: Why is this code broken? (Oren Eini)
• Speed Up Logging in .NET (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to implement a Blameless Postmortem (part two) (Dave Harrison)
• New in Sketch: Discover articles, inspiration and more in the web app (Sketch Team)
• A Guide On How To Build An Enjoyable Employee Experience Through Your Remote Work Tools (Genevieve Michaels)
• Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone (Matthew John Cheetham)
• How To Prevent Bugs (Peter Vogel)
• Trello vs. Todoist: Project management software comparison (Scott Matteson)
• Delete all local git branches except the main branch (Steve Fenton)
• Invest in Your Health to Boost Your Productivity (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids (Andrew Webster)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Mentorship with Rainer Grimm (Rob Irving)
• Hanselminutes – How kids learn how to Code with MakeCode’s Kiki Prottsman (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Podcast Episode 419 – Azure Front Door (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Web Rush Episode 178: Tailwind CSS with Shawn Wildermuth (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Is Kubernetes Right for You? – Adventures in DevOps 109 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Making hybrid work in the office with Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Rocket 380: Fast Segue (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Design Details 434: News Desk, Vol. 4 (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 431 – Words of wisdom for self-taught developers (Eira May)
• UX Podcast #286 – Reintroduction to Information Architecture with Donna Spencer (UXP Classic) (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Windows Weekly 771: Rush the Mound (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 352: Layers of Abstraction (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Announcing the Microsoft 365 Community Initiative (Karuana Gatimu)

Database

• Query SQL Server Agent Jobs, Job Steps, History and Schedule System Tables (Eric Blinn)
• Populate dimension tables dynamically in SQL Server – Part 1 and Part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing @mentions in Visio for the web (Prateek Sharma)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Using Natural Language Processing With PyTorch (Exxact Team)
• Microsoft PowerToys could add a macOS-like “peek” feature to preview items in File Explorer (Arif Bacchus)
• Why Every Programmer Should Learn Python (John Smith)
• Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge: Save even more resources with recent updates (Microsoft Edge Team)
• You should be reading academic computer science papers (Ryan Donovan)
• Announcing Rust 1.60.0 (The Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3448 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #706 (Mary Lou)
• The Wolf Report – April 8th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Code Maze Weekly #118 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

 When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think (Russ Laraway) – Referral Link