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Dew Drop – April 14, 2022 (#3663)

Posted on April 14, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 3 (Daniel Roth)
Announcing: Azure Communication Services UI Library Design Kit (Alex Pereira)
NuGet: Introducing Central Package Management (Jeff Kluge)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) Preview 3 (Jeremy Likness)
Supercharge your Git experience in VS (Taysser Gherfal)
Announcing .NET 7 Preview 3 (Jon Douglas)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Build and Deploy a Serverless React App on Azure (Nickolas Fisher)
Public preview: Visual Studio Code extension for Azure Container Apps and Public preview: Visual Studio support for Azure Container Apps (Azure Team)
Azure portal March 2022 updates (Allison Cordle)
Angular State Management with NgRx (Chameera Dulanga)
Download Multiple Files From Azure Blob Storage in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
CSS Layers Tutorial: Real CSS Encapsulation (Johnny Simpson)
Part 1 – A CRUD Operation Demo With .NET 6 Web API | SQL Database | Angular 13 (Naveen Bommidi)
Using Event Webhooks for Emails with Twilio SendGrid in Node.js (Sam Agnew)
Lambda Function URLs – triggering .NET 6 Lambda functions with a HTTPS Request (Bryan Hogan)
Migrating Auth0 Hooks to Auth0 Actions (Andrea Chiarelli)
Returning HTTP 204 (No Content) from .NET Minimal API (Jeremy Clark)
Meet Matrix: Postman’s Internal Tool for Working with Microservices (Jibin Mathews)
Introducing .NET Annotations Lambda Framework (Preview) (Norm Johanson)
Top Frontend Developer Tools for Beginners in 2022 (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Will chatbots ever live up to the hype? (Sylvain Perron)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Linear Gauge Control (Sheik Syed)

Visual Studio & .NET

A survey of how implementations of Windows Runtime events deal with errors (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Asynchronous Request-Response Pattern for Non-Blocking Workflows (Derek Comartin)
Why Do Testers Need CI/CD? (Alexandra Psheborovskaya)
Git For Windows Issues Update To Fix Running-Someone-Else’s-Code Vulnerability (BeauHD)
Designing A Better Carousel UX (Vitaly Friedman)
Getting started with Microsoft To Do (Kevin Okemwa)
What is GitOps? (Matthew Casperson)
Reasons to Invest in DevSecOps (Michelle Pruitt)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Language, Learning and Leadership, with Divya Mohan (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
.NET Rocks! – Web Apps to Desktop Apps using Photino with Otto Dobretsberger (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 122: Azure Data Explorer Materialized Views (David Giard)
The AI Show: Ep 55 | Audio analytics with Azure Automated ML (Seth Juarez & Serge Retkowsky)
InfoQ Podcast: Randy Shoup on Creating High-Performance Cultures (Randy Shoup)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Questions to help you reflect on your success as a Scrum Master | Bevan Williams (Vasco Duarte)
.NET MAUI Release Candidate (RC) 1: GA Just One Month Away! (Gerald Versluis)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 70: Self Reflection (Ben Nadel)
Potluck – Multi Tenant Apps, JS Sprinkles, Kids Coding, Server Error Handling (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 17 : TechBytes 05 : 2022 Music Technology Quarter Time Review ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Chris Mann)
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins Episode 3 with Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock (Alyssa Hughes)
This is JS Party! (Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya, Amal Hussein, Mikeal Rogers, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Christopher Hiller & Ali Spittel)
Design Details 435: New Feature Launch Checklist (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 043: Become Your Own Superhero with Laban Ditchburn (Kae Lynne Sapino)
MongoDB World 2022 Hackathon Introduction (MongoDB Team)
Minimal APIs Aren’t so Minimal in Power – Adventures in .NET 114 (Shawn Clabough)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 507: Kevin Hu on Data Observability (Priyanka Raghavan)

Community & Events

Visual Studio Champ (Jesse Liberty)
Mozilla partners with the Center for Humane Technology (Melissa Thermidor)
Angular Developer Survey 2021 Results (Minko Gechev)
Pure Virtual C++ 2022 Schedule Available (Sy Brand)

Database

SQL Server Ports for Various Components (Daniel Calbimonte)
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022 (Azure Team)
Azure SQL DB Backup History – View backups of your Azure SQL Database (Sudhir Raparla)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.0 Preview 2 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

SharePoint Online Modern App Catalog – April 2022 (Andrew Connell)
Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store – March 2022 (Vesa Juvonen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22598 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Ford’s F-150 Lightning launch event is set for April 26th (Richard Lawler)
Elon Musk offers to buy 100 percent of Twitter (Thomas Ricker)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3452 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – April 14th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows & Diana Wright) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 1, 2022 (#3655)

Posted on April 1, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 8 (Jordan Matthiesen)
Tutorial – Building a Kanban Style Todo App (code included) (Uno Platform Team)
.NET Core Podcast – AvaloniaUI with Dan Walmsley (Jamie Taylor)
Foldable ExoPlayer video… plus trivia (Kristen Halper)
Evolving the connection between your phone and your Windows PC (Gerald Haslhofer)
Enhancing Game Developer Productivity with Visual Studio 2022 (David Li)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes Logging: Introduction & Challenges (Stephen Watts)
.NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid – Custom Authentication Implementation (Mitchel Sellers)
Building React and Angular Component Libraries with Stencil and Nx (Anthony Giuliano)
Generating Interactive PDF Forms by Injecting JavaScript (Bjoern Meyer)
How to Use ModelState Validation in ASP.NET Core Web API (Code Maze)
Create a custom database logging provider with ASP.NET Core ILogger (David Grace)
Efficiently Bind Data to the Angular Data Grid and Perform CRUD Operations Using GraphQL (Mohammed Farook J)
How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks (Filippo Valsorda)
Using Go Generics with Pulumi (David Flanagan)
Has Service Worker usage increased on this website over the past four years? (Dean Hume)
The “Magical” Back Button and Chromium’s DNS Cache (Eric Lawrence)
The WebAIM Million – 2022 Update (Jared Smith)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Getting started with MADE for Uno Platform controls (James Croft)
Getting started: Xamarin.Native vs Xamarin.Forms/MAUI for iOS & Android (The First Prototype)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using Async/Await With Disposable Objects (David McCarter)
Should I translate my window class names? (Raymond Chen)
Using custom media types in .NET (Irina Scurtu)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Agile Book Club: Zero Friction Development (James Shore)
Using Team-Set Salaries for Company-Wide Compensation (Ben Linders)
Config as Code and persistence ignorance (Mark Siedle)
How To Master Remote Work: A Roundup Of Trello Resources (Sam Milbrath)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Gradual null safety migration for large Dart projects (Polina C.)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CppCast – Julia with Logan Kilpatrick (Rob Irving)
Hanselminutes – Pyjion, a JIT compiler for Python using .NET Core with Anthony Shaw (Scott Hanselman)
Azure Podcast Episode 418 – Azure Marketplace (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Instant Realtime GraphQL on Azure SQL with Hasura | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Abby Sassel)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Psychological safety for Agile teams, a sign of Scrum Master success | Daniel Lutz (Vasco Duarte)
3 search bar shortcuts to use in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
The Usual Saas-pects 31 – Dennis Hegstad (LiveRecover, OrderBump) (Ch Daniel)
Rocket 379: Natural Gas! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Geeking out on .NET with Nick Chapsas (Dan Clarke)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 429 – Embracing ambiguity in software with one of YouTube’s UX engineers (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 177: OSS Sustainability and NPM Module Ecosystem with Matteo Collina (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Solutions Architecture at MongoDB (MongoDB Team)
Windows Weekly 770: Hairy Shooters (Paul Thurrott)
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 2 with Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt, Zachary Rowe, and Joanna Velazquez (Alyssa Hughes)

Community & Events

Webinar next week: Clean Architecture with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
E3 2022 is canceled (Ash Parrish)
Announcing PulumiUP 2022: The Cloud Awakens on May 4th (George Huang)
Inspiring Women: Julissa Mateo (Leomaris Reyes)
Top 10 Memorable Women in Tech (Michelle Pruitt)
API Security conference — on #FHIR (John Moehrke)
On the mend (Rob Miles)
Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best joins Microsoft as director of global security risk operations (Taylor Soper)

Database

Cumulative Update #29 for SQL Server 2017 RTM (Hristina Sarankin)
Creating a Generic SSRS Report (Tim Mitchell)
Approaches to Model a Document Database Schema (Maria Zakourdaev)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Set Up and Manage Viva Topics in Microsoft Teams (Kat Greenan)
Microsoft Teams apps designed for Microsoft 365 coming in Preview to Outlook and Office.com (Mamta Kumar)
SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: March 2022 (Mark Kashman)
What’s new in Yammer – March 2022 (Yammer Team)

Miscellaneous

What’s new in axum 0.5 (David Pedersen)
Power Automate for desktop – March 2022 update (Tiannis Mavridis)
How GitHub does take home technical interviews (Andy McKay)
Microsoft could be working on an Xbox Game Pass Family Plan (Arif Bacchus)
Smart due date and reminder recognition in Microsoft To Do (Ayan Chakraborty)
Time to get on trend (Ben Popper & Ryan Donovan)
How to Write Persuasive Technical Content (Karl Hughes)
Edge & Bing – Our best features to help you save time, stay organized and do more of what you love (Liat Ben-Zur)
Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.57.0 — and it’s a huge update (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3443 (Chris Alcock)
.NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #21 (davita8)
The Wolf Report – April 1st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Code Maze Weekly #117 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Five Faves: March Edition (‘Tine Zekis)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – November 11, 2021 (#3557)

Posted on November 11, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Conf – New Blazor WebAssembly capabilities in .NET 6 (Steven Sanderson)
.NET Conf – Introduction to .NET MAUI (Maddy Leger Montaquila)
.NET Conf – .NET Everywhere – Windows, Linux, and Beyond (Scott Hanselman)
.NET Conf – Testing tools for .NET and cross-platform apps (Kendra Havens)

Web & Cloud Development

What You Need to Know about Angular v13 (Alisa Duncan)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 341 – How to connect GitHub Actions to Azure Security Center (Azure Team)
Migrating our trusty ol’ .NET Framework applications to AWS, hold on! One foot at a time! and Migrating our trusty ol’ .NET Framework applications to AWS, I couldn’t believe it! (François Bouteruche)
How to Make Your React Component Library Tree Shakeable (Carl Rippon)
Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? (Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas)
Oilpan library (Anton Bikineev, Omer Katz & Michael Lippautz)
.NET 6 now available on App Service (Jeff Martinez)
Introducing Firebase Extensions for Twilio (Phil Nash)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Xamarin.Forms: Clear cookies in WebViews (András Tóth)

Visual Studio & .NET

Microsoft Releases .NET 6 And Visual Studio 2022 (Kay Ewbank)
Emaroo 4.8.0 – Support for Visual Studio 2022 / Adobe CC 2022 (Roland Weigelt)
Visual Studio 2022 image is now available (AppVeyor Team)
Syncfusion Blazor Extension in Visual Studio Code for Mac: A Time-Saving Tool (Abishake Dakshinamoorthy)
Modern UI Made Easy with Official Support for .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 (Maria Veledinova)
How to Add a New Customer to QuickBooks Online in C# .NET (Greg Lutz)
An overview of key .NET 6 features (Jeremy Boyd)
.NET 6 | Everything You NEED to Know (Claudio Bernasconi)
How am I supposed to create children of the Win32 tab control? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The strong and weak forces of architecture and Bliki: DefaultTrialRetire (Martin Fowler)
Using Google Cloud Secret Manager with Octopus (Mark Harrison)
Integration Testing: Lessons from Storyteller and Other Thoughts (Jeremy D. Miller)
How To Run Parallel Test Using xUnit WebDriver Part 5 (Anton Angelov)
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index (Derrick Stolee)
7 unique software collaboration features in GitHub Discussions (Evi Liu)
Things to consider when developing job training programs (Karen Massin)
The Right To Disconnect: How To Help Your Employees Unplug And Why It Matters (Lydia Durkovic)
Into the BLUE (framework): Designing user centered in-product feedback (Serena Hillman)
The Renaissance of Code Documentation: Introducing Code Walkthrough (Omer Rosenbaum & Tom Ahi Dror)
Publishing Events from CRUD or Commands? (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

#AndroidDevSummit: Jetpack Compose now with Material You (Nick Butcher)
Feature preview: What’s new for multiplayer networking in Unity (Dew Smith)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – DNSimple API with Enrique Comba (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GCast 117: Getting Started with Azure Data Explorer (David Giard)
Microsoft Stories Podcast: Season 2, episode 2 – Can your company launch a sustainability plan and keep growing? (Katie Gale)
Behind the scenes of Keurig’s SMART coffee brewers powered by Azure IoT Central | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch, Ed Marks, Ranga Vadlamudi & Dima Tokar)
.NET Conf – Enterprise-grade Blazor apps with .NET 6 (Daniel Roth)
Increasing Collaboration with Communication: GitHub and Microsoft Teams | The DevOps Lab (April Edwards & Jay Gordon)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 048: TODO: Microwave ToDo List (Ben Nadel)
.NET Conf – Speed up your .NET development with Hot Reload (Dmitry Lyalin)
Design Details 419: Teaching Design at Work (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
Adaptive Cards community call – October 2021 (J.P. Roca)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 020: Leave a Legacy with Tammy Bohen (Kae Lynne Sapino)
Talk Python to Me #340: Time to JIT your Python with Pyjion? (Michael Kennedy)
8 Bits with Pedro Jesus! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
State Management ft. Assaf Krintza – JavaScript Jabber 508 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)

Community & Events

These 36 young scientists inspired me (Bill Gates)
Twelve Years of Go (Russ Cox)
Reimagine a new era of healthcare at Microsoft Ignite 2021 and beyond (Tom McGuinness)
Here’s what happened this weekend @ NurseHack4Health (Daniel Kim)
Reconnect Series: Dean Calvert and The Rise of Jonas (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Expanding Google Summer of Code in 2022 (Stephanie Taylor)

Database

Trusting STRING_SPLIT() order in Azure SQL Database (Aaron Bertrand)
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-November 2021 (Azure Team)
SQL Server and Azure Purview work better together (Vishal Anil)
RavenDB 5.3 Features: Concurrent subscriptions (Oren Eini)
Using PostgreSQL in dev: Part 1 – Installing PostgreSQL on Windows and Using PostgreSQL in dev: Part 2 – Testing against a PostgreSQL database (Jon P. Smith)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Teams and Workplace enterprise collaboration tools (Kurt Schlosser)
Using Microsoft Loop Components in Teams (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22499 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Introducing Feedback for Microsoft 365 (Devin Sinha)
Steam Deck launch delayed by two months (Jay Peters)
Microsoft Edge Dev can now turn the desktop Web widget into a pinned sidebar (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3351 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-11-11 (Dan Rigby)
The Wolf Report – November 11th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, 6th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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