graphql – Page 65 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 28, 2021 (#3494)

Top Links

Welcome to the Community Toolkit! (Michael Hawker)
Dapr v1.3 is now available (Dapr Team)
Blazor Debugging Improvements in Rider 2021.2 (Rachel Appel)
Experimenting with Dart and Wasm (Michael Thomsen)
Learn F# this week with Free Events & Live Streams (James Montemagno)
Sponsorship Opportunities for TechBash 2021 (Jason Gaylord)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploring The Interplay Between HTML Entities And TextContent In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js (Alexander Dubovoy)
Getting Started with Serverless SignalR and Azure Functions (John Kilmister)
Bring Your Own Storage in Azure Web App (Kevin Li)
Better React Components with TypeScript Union Types (Paul Burgess)
Q&A with Jeff Hollan of Microsoft Regarding Azure Application Services on Kubernetes (Rags Srinivas)
Mocking modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) in Unit Tests (Trivikram Kamat)
Mastering Enums in TypeScript (Arnaud Leymet)
Building A GraphQL Server With Next.js API Routes (William Lyon)
Parse Redis-CLI Connection URI To Use With StackExchange.Redis (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
DocumentViewer 29.2 (29.0.302.500) Final Released (Bjoern Meyer)
The Future of Microservices? More Abstractions (Charles Humble)
Time to Embrace Escape Hatches on the Web Platform? (Dion Almaer)
How to Use fetch() with JSON (Dmitri Pavlutin)
7 Simple Tips for a High-Speed Webpage (Karthik Anandan)
Introducing the New Rule Builder in Fiddler Everywhere! (Simona Yaneva)

Visual Studio & .NET

What’s New in Visual Studio Code? (Gift Egwuenu)
How to create a standalone ConsoleLoggerProvider (Mike Hadlow)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Feature Parity (Martin Fowler)
Responsibility Abdication: The path to create flexible business system (Oren Eini)
Advanced Installer 18.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
A Fast Track to Stable Deployments Without Costly Test Maintenance: Test Studio R2 2021 (Asya Ivanova)
Manual Testing Vs. Automated Testing: Which One Is The Best Fit For You? (ITRex)
How To Hire And Onboard Remote Workers: The Trello Guide To Success (Kenza Moller)
TeamCity 2021.2 EAP is open (Maria Kudryavtseva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Accessing car hardware APIs in your app for cars (Madan Ankapura)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

SQL Server on Linux Storage Secrets | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Klee)
Flutter Essentials ft. Allen Wyma – JSJ 494 (Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 419 | New Dawn for SharePoint & Windows (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 033: Software Patents (Ben Nadel)
Benefits of .NET MAUI over Xamarin/Xamarin.Forms – Live Stream Highlights (James Montemagno)
Asp.Net Monsters #218 – Automated Accessibility Testing with Playwright + Axe (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)
The CSS Podcast 052: counters and @counter-style (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 284 (Jason Bock)
MJFChat: Managing Windows in the Cloud with Windows 365 (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft Mechanics – Build and customize model-driven apps | Power Apps Studio Updates (Jeremy Chapman & Emma Cooper)
What got you into computers? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Introducing the Partner Innovation video series (Tony Shakib)

Community & Events

.NET Docs Show (Aug 2nd) – C-Sharpen Your Razor Skills (David Pine & Cam Soper)
Student Ambassador community voices: Advice (MS Student Developer Team)
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School (Mike Linksvayer)

Database

Azure Defender for SQL is now available on the SQL Virtual Machine blade. (Aditya Badramraju)
Setting up Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on Synology NAS (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
SQL YouTube Live – Performance Troubles – Execution Plans (Pinal Dave)
Brief Update on Marten V4 (Jeremy D. Miller)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams hits 250 million monthly active users milestone during pandemic (Brad Stephenson)
How to Deploy PnP Modern Search Web Parts v4 (Agnes Molnar)
Announcing General Availability of Safe Links for Microsoft Teams! (John Gruszczyk)
Tips and Tricks and Best Practices for Hybrid Meetings with Microsoft Teams and more (Scott Hanselman)

PowerShell

How To: Use Azure AD Powershell to Work With Extension Properties (User Attributes) (Sean Killeen)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rides Azure, cloud commercial revenue in strong Q4 (Larry Dignan)
ProcDump v10.1, RDCMan v2.82, Sigcheck v2.82 and Sysmon v13.23 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Microsoft: Component shortages not going away any time soon (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3283 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter Cookbook: Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart (Simone Alessandria & Brian Kayfitz) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 16, 2021 (#3486)

Top Links

The Future of Xamarin Community Toolkit (Brandon Minnick)
Debug code with force run to cursor (Harshada Hole)
New TwoPaneLayout Compose library preview (Joy Liu)
XAML Live Preview and the Future of Designers for App Development (Nick Randolph)
An Emoji For Your Thoughts. Microsoft’s new emojis (Claire Anderson)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploring Next.js 11: What Is New (David Adeneye Abiodun)
You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid? (Zara Cooper)
What’s New in 2021 Volume 2: Blazor Scheduler (Mahesh Palanisamy)
CSS Grid Cheat Sheet (Mariana Simon)
Fully Sharded Data Parallel: faster AI training with fewer GPUs (Myle Ott, Sam Shleifer, Min Xu, Priya Goyal, Quentin Duval & Vittorio Caggiano)
Server-Side Engine in JavaScript Pivot Table: An Overview (Ramesh)
What use cases exist for async_hooks? (Node.js Team)
Adding User Profiles to Static Web Apps (Aaron Powell)
API vs. Microservices: A Beginners Guide to Understand Them (Jaden Baptista)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Getting started with a UI and not die trying in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Everything You Need to Know About WinUI 3 Slider (Sheik Syed)

Visual Studio & .NET

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022 (Erika)
Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 – Book Review (Joseph Guadagno)
Get a Reward for Sharing Your dotTrace or dotMemory Experience (Anastasia Kazakova)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.1 RC now available (Gloridel Morales)
Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components – How can we take advantage of the latest C# features to create highly reusable build scripts with NUKE? (Erik Heemskerk)
Assessing Remote Employee Experiences for Hybrid-Remote Work-Settings (Ben Linders)
Indigo.Design App Builder July Release – GitHub integration, Drag & Drop and more (Danail Marinov)
11 Git Commands I Use Every Day (Domagoj Vidovic)
Domain-Driven Refactoring: Procedural Beginnings (Jimmy Bogard)
5 learnings as a Product Manager (Kitty Bhasin)
Mindful Work: Capturing, Prioritizing and Working on Tasks Effectively (Roxana Murariu)
7 Key Insights of Product Management (Sandra Davey)
How To Instill An Ownership Mindset In Your Team (Sarah Ribeiro)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Use These Dart/Flutter Packages for More Beautiful UIs (Mirsaid İsmailov)
New AppCode 2021.2 EAP: Completion for Documentation Tags in Swift and Bug Fixes (Stanislav Dombrovsky)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Gatekeeper and Policy Controller, with Max Smythe (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
CppCast – Improving Performance with Ivica Bogosavljevic (Rob Irving)
Hanselminutes – New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga (Scott Hanselman)
Angular and Routing Testing – Part 2 featuring Lars Brink – AiA 317 (Charles Max Wood & Richard Sithole)
Using SQL Data Sync for Bidirectional Data Replication in SQL Server and Azure SQL DBs | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Mara-Florina Steiu)
AzureFunBytes Episode 51 – Deploy With ARM Templates with @shankuehn (Jay Gordon)
Evaluating Jobs and Job Offers – Adventures in DevOps 077 (Charles Max Wood, Jeffrey Groman & Will Button)
Rocket 342: Goodbye, Fleets (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 005 – Future of Cloud Development Kit with Elad Ben-Israel (David Isbitski)
UX Podcast #267 – UX Theatre with Tanya Snook (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
React Native Radio #204 – Own Your Dependencies with Mark Rickert (Jamon Holmgren, Jon Major Condon & Mark Rickert)
Creating data-driven web applications with Django [1 of 24] | Beginner’s Series to: Django | Beginner’s Series to: Django (Matthew Leib)
Talk Python to Me #325: MicroPython + CircuitPython (Michael Kennedy)
Collaborative Debugging (Ozcode)
It’s Not for People – Windows Weekly 733 (Paul Thurrott)
OSS Power-Ups: Verify – Webinar Recording (Matthias Koch)
What’s next for GraphQL tooling? (Michael Staib)

Community & Events

Save the Date for .NET Conf: Focus on F#, July 29th, 2021 (Halah Villalobos)
Twitter Inclusion & Diversity Report July 2021: Cultivating Inclusion (Dalana Brand)
Healthcare Software Industry Trusts Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
Student leaders are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level (Elise Hollowed)
Get inspired: partner with us on what’s next in Windows (Aidan Marcuss)
5 Years of Merge Conflict (James Montemagno)
Data Engineers of Netflix — Interview with Kevin Wylie (Netflix Technology Blog)

Database

SQL SERVER – Find Instance Name for Availability Group Listener (Pinal Dave)
Using SQL Data Sync for Bidirectional Data Replication in SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases (Marisa Brasile)
Why Are Linked Server Queries So Bad? (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint & MS Teams

First Look at Microsoft Teams 2.0 and First Look at Microsoft’s New Teams Peripherals (Brad Sams)
Microsoft Viva Enhanced Teams as A Platform (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1147 (21H2) and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.1147 (21H1) to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Introducing the next feature update to Windows 10: 21H2 (John Cable)
Valve have announced the very Switch-like Steam Deck (Katharine Castle)
How to opt-in to the Extended Stable release cycle option beginning with Microsoft Edge 94 (MS Edge Team)
Hands-On with the Office Visual Refresh (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft reveals first Windows 365 pricing for PCs in the cloud (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3275 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #670 (Mary Lou)
Code Maze Weekly #85 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular: Full-stack web development with .NET 5 and Angular 11, 4th Ed (Valerio De Sanctis) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 7, 2021 (#3479)

Top Links

Is Windows 11 a Better OS for Developers? (Matthew MacDonald)
Workspace Trust in Visual Studio Code (Chris Dias)
What is GraphQL? and How do you add a database to a GraphQL Server? and How do you create and interact with a GraphQL Server? and Blazor Web Apps using GraphQL and EF Core with Jeremy Likness (Jeremy Likness & Christopher Harrison)
First Look at the New Office UI that Matches Windows 11 (Brad Sams)
Solitaire in Blazor Part 5 – Double-Click Shortcut and Autocomplete (Matthew Jones)
I am a Windows App Developer (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

Amazon Launches AWS Workflow Studio (Kay Ewbank)
Decrypt Secrets Into ASP.NET Core MVC Action Arguments Using Action Filters (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Learn Razor Pages – Your guide to using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (Mike Brind)
A Barebones Azure Event Grid to Azure Relay Listener (Jon Gallant)
Output connection strings and keys from Azure Bicep (Johnny Reilly)
5 GraphQL clients for JavaScript and Node.js (Matt Angelosanto)
Optimized: Using A JavaScript (JS) Profiler For Improved Performance (Stackify)
Azure Arc for Cloud Solutions Architects (Thomas Maurer)
Build a real-time whiteboard application with Azure Web PubSub (Yan Jin)
Public Preview: Form Recognizer container support (Azure Team)
Building a Cloud Native Lab at Home (Andreas Helland)
What Is an API? How APIs Work (for Non-Developers) (Diego Poza)
User Management on FHIR (John Moehrke)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Welcome to the World of Shadows with Telerik Shadow for Xamarin, WinUI and UWP (Dobrinka Yordanova)
Navigating in a WinUI 3 Desktop application (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

Text Sharp v2.4 lets you adjust text clarity in Visual Studio 2022 (Sergey Vlasov)
Solid Principles with C# .NET Core – Easy to understand guide (Sanjay Modi)
Deploy .NET applications on Red Hat OpenShift using Helm (Tom Deseyn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How Teams Can Use Trello To Collaborate With Contractors (Kenza Moller)
GitHub Previews Copilot, an OpenAI-Powered Coding Assistant (Renato Losio)
Value Stream Mapping and Management (Kevin Logan)
Welcome to Workspaces: Sharing your work (Sketch Team)
Security Marketing? Every Product Needs a Story! (Anton Chuvakin)
What is the Opportunity Score? (And how to calculate it) (JP Carrascal)
They promised it would be the next big thing! (Nina Demuth)
Mocking 101: First Principles in Building Mock Objects (Peter Vogel)
Five ways to include d/Deaf users in your designs (Rachele DiTullio)
What happens if I use a squash instead of a true merge when performing one of the git tricks? (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Runtime Extraction of Android Assets (j2inet)
Unity: Discover the tools you need with flexible feature sets in Package Manager (Cathy Ma)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 416 | What Is Azure IoT Hub (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Learn how to build bots with Azure Bot Service’s comprehensive development experience | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Gary Pretty)
RunAs Radio – Building SQL DevOps Tools with Kendra Little (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 65 – The Road to Atlas #3 – Going Mobile with Alexander Stigsen (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
The New JAMstack with Brian Rinaldi – JSJ 491 (Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
All About Language Features – Adventures in .NET 076 (Caleb Wells & Wai Liu)
PPP 327 | What is Sustainable Project Management? A Conversation with Rich Maltzman (Andy Kaufman)
AzureFunBytes Episode 37 – Microsoft Power Apps with @98codes (Jay Gordon)
Meta Cast Episode 201 – A Deep Dive Into The Tactics Of Planning (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
.NET Bytes Episode 22: News from June 14th, 2021 through June 28th, 2021 (Calvin A. Allen & Matthew D. Groves)
Diagnosing thread pool exhaustion issues in .NET Core apps | On .NET (Richard Lander & Mike Rousos)
The CSS Podcast 049: Accessibility (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 278 (Jason Bock)
Windows Insiders Podcast – Designing for a Billion (Windows Insiders Team)

Community & Events

Azure Functions: Discover Open API – A Learning Event! (Nitya Narasimhan)
Stuff I wish I knew before I went Independent (George Stocker)
Microsoft Inspire: deliver customer value through Microsoft cloud innovation (MS Partner Network team)
Corporations are people… (Tim Sneath)

Database

6 Ways to Get SQL Server Versions (Manvendra Singh)
SQL SERVER – Making Filegroup Read Only (Pinal Dave)
Using GPUs for Data Science and Data Analytics (Exxact Team)
Getting started with Kafka Connector for Azure Cosmos DB using Docker (Abhishek Gupta)

SharePoint & MS Teams

How to Create Retention Policies for Microsoft Teams (Jason Wynn)
Debugging Microsoft Teams and a directory not found error using Procmon (Ralph Willgoss)
New updates to the SharePoint admin center in Microsoft 365 (Rk Menon & Mark Kashman)
Get the most out of your meetings in Microsoft Teams! (Ray Borkowski)

PowerShell

Powershell Cookbook 4th Edition Now Available! (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s commitment to the DoD remains steadfast (Toni Townes-Whitley)
No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not ‘Spyware’ (BeauHD)
Hands-On with Adobe Document Generation in Microsoft Power Automate (Ben Vanderberg)
Windows 10 update KB5004945 fixed PrintNightmare issue for versions 21H1, 20H2 and 2004 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows 10 PowerToys: How to keep your PC awake without changing settings (Mark Kaelin)
Here comes Microsoft’s Cloud PC virtualization service (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3268 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #15 (Sam Basu)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link

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