mvp award – Page 8 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 7, 2022 (#3717)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – WASM Everywhere with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (July 2022) (Brandon LeBlanc)
AWS announces a streamlined deployment experience for .NET applications (Irene Kors)
Replicating Pet Adoption UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Windows Terminal Preview 1.15 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure App Containers (Kevin Logan)
Can You Live without Kubernetes? (Charles Humble)
Azure Communication Service (Voice/Video) – Quick Starts Tips (Daniel Kim)
Blazor WebAssembly applications (François Bouteruche)
Microsoft Graph PHP SDK 2.0.0-RC5 is now available (Isaac Vargas Chacon)
Master UX for Processes With the Blazor Wizard 2: Control User Progress (Peter Vogel)
Defend Your SPA from Security Woes (Alisa Duncan)
Stop supporting Internet Explorer! (Michael Schnarnagl)
HttpClient vs RestSharp – Which One to Use in .NET (Code Maze)
Pulumi Release Notes: Pulumi YAML updates, Stack READMEs, and much more! (Meagan Cojocar)
There’s a Nasty Security Hole in the Apache Webserver (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
Optimizing Business Websites for Local Search Results (Suzanne Scacca)
A Guide to the Most Popular APIs: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets (The Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

WinUI Charts — API Enhancements in v22.1 (Dmitry Tokmachev)
Learning .NET MAUI – Part 8 (Jesse Liberty)
What’s New in .NET MAUI Scheduler: 2022 Volume 2 (Jeyasri Murugan)

Visual Studio & .NET

A Simple Example of Using a Distributed Cache (Redis) in .NET 6 with API Endpoints (Bryan Hogan)
Decompile, Edit, and Recompile DLL (Abhijeet Das)
The empty Windows Runtime string is not just a pretty face (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Book Review: Modern Software Engineering (Kay Ewbank)
Add These 10 Radically Relevant Books to Your 2022 Summer Reading List for Inspiration, Purpose and Empowerment (Brandi Neal)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 82: GitHub Charging For Copilot (Ben Nadel)
Developer Tea – Meeting Red Flags – Problems In Your Meetings That Signal Issues In Your Culture (Jonathan Cutrell)
Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – Microsoft Teams Toolkit with Pierce Boggan (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 460 – Skills that pay the bills for software developers (Ben Popper)

Community & Events

The benefits of NOT being a Microsoft MVP any longer (Alan Mendelevich)
Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? July 2022 Edition (Brent Ozar)
The Social Model of Open Source (Emily Omier)

Database

Simple script to backup all SQL Server databases (Greg Robidoux)
Improve SQL Server Performance for Large Log Table Queries using a Goal Posts Table (Aaron Bertrand)
Export Data from SSMS to Excel (Joe Gavin)
Snowflake Data Cloud (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

How to Sign PowerShell Scripts, Part 1 and How to Sign PowerShell Scripts, Part 2 (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

How has Microsoft training and certification impacted your career? (Debbie Uttecht)
Why Perl is still relevant in 2022 (Girish Venkatachalam)
Microsoft splits its Windows 11 beta in two, with new features switched off for some (Liam Tung)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3506 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – July 7th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 19, 2022 (#3666)

Top Links

Internals of C# nullable reference types – Migrating to nullable reference types – Part 2 (Maarten Balliauw)
DevTalk Podcast #80: Best practices for XAML. With Leomaris Reyes (Kerry Lothrop)
ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL: Part 2 (Matthew Groves)
Use Copilot to Write and Translate a Binary Search Algorithm (Rizèl Scarlett)
C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more! (Kathleen Dollard)

Web & Cloud Development

ASP.NET Core Furthers Minimal API Work in .NET 7 Preview 3 (David Ramel)
Getting to know Azure Arc (Amy Colyer)
Tips & Tricks: Delaying AWS Service configuration when using .NET Dependency Injection (Philip Pittle)
Measuring container size and startup latency for serverless apps written in C#, Node.js, Go, and Java (Richard Seroter)
How To Run Unit Testing In Angular (Svetloslav Novoselski)
Aurelia update notes – mid April 2022 (bigopon)
On Go’s Generics Implementation and Performance (Sergio De Simone)
WebAssembly 2.0 First Public Working Drafts (Xueyuan Jia)

Visual Studio & .NET

Update Pipeline Improved in Entity Framework Core 7 and Microsoft Asks for Votes on Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Issues and Mads Asks What You Want for Visual Studio 2022 (David Ramel)
ADO.NET provider 9.0.0.0 for Firebird is ready (with Entity Framework Core 6.0 support) (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
Using dotnet format Command to Format the C#/.NET Code (Ryan Miranda)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Clean Code Tip: Avoid using too many Imports in your classes (Davide Bellone)
Top Types for Code Connections (David Oliver)
The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers (Lee Munroe)
Highlights from Git 2.36 (Taylor Blau)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning (Ana Medina)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 61 – Anniversary Episode – What Did We Learn So Far on Cloud Security Podcast? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Revision Path – Liz Montague (Maurice Cherry)
Svelte Cubed + 3D In Browser (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Asp.Net Monsters #247 – HTML Template Element (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
Does Azure is PaaS or SaaS? (Frank Boucher)
Your Daily Scrum: How Does A Scrum Master Break Down Silos in an Org? (Ryan Ripley)
How to view people’s time zones in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
PPP 354 | The Stories We Tell Ourselves—And Why We Armor Up (Andy Kaufman)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 434 – What’s the average tenure of an engineer at a big tech company? (Ben Popper)
Serverless Chats Episode #133: Moving to Serverless Safely with Jeff Williams (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
AGL 255: Yair Riemer (John Rouda)
UI Breakfast Episode 237: UX Writing vs. Content Design with Yuval Keshtcher (Jane Portman)

Community & Events

Celebrating 20 Million Postman Users (Abhinav Asthana)
MVPs Celebrate International Women’s Day (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3453 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #53 (Sam Basu)
The Wolf Report – April 19th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – February 23, 2022 (#3628)

Top Links

XAML Fundamentals for Web and Mobile: ListView (Uno Platform Team)
Early peek at C# 11 features (Kathleen Dollard)
Guidance for Architecting Mission Critical Apps on Azure (Ben Brauer)
Announcing Metalama: a modern Roslyn-based meta-programming framework (Gael Fraiteur)
Requiring two-factor authentication on NuGet.org (Claire Novotny)

Web & Cloud Development

Testing ASP.NET Core 6 Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Blazor Custom Components (John Peters)
Configure Prettier and ESLint with Angular (Balaji Patnam)
The new and better ‘WordPress on App Service’ (Abhishek Reddy)
Evaluating TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET using Trial Tokens (Bjoern Meyer)
Adding Tailwind CSS v3 to a Blazor app (Chris Sainty)
Upgrading an ASP.NET Core Web API Project to .NET 6 (Christian Nagel)
Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API (Code Maze)
Customizing $filter for spatial data in ASP.NET Core OData 8 (Kennedy Kangethe Munga)
An Overview on Running Background Job or Task in ASP.NET Core Application [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
Beginners Guide to Angular: Routing (Roy Agasthyan)
Polly with .NET 6, Part 2 – Dependency Injection of a HttpClientFactory with a Retry Policy (Bryan Hogan)
Managing Multiple .NET Microservices with API Federation (James Hickey)
#30DaysOfPWA #09 – Creating Application Shortcuts (Aaron Gustafson)
Node v17.6.0 (Current) (Bryan English)
Migrating My Infrastructure From Terraform to Pulumi (Erik Näslund)
How To Develop A Text Editor For The Web (Ilya Medvedev)
Migrating from Redis-64 to Memurai (Marc Gravell)
Is Serverless Just a Stopover for Event-Driven Architecture? (Mark Hinkle)
Previewing your posts — how to build the best decoupled content management workflow for your static site (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Why I wrote (and you should buy) a book about Uno Platform when there are free resources available (Matt Lacey)
5 Important Things to Make Your Cross-Platform (.NET MAUI) App Accessible (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET

EF Core 7 Finally Divorces Old .NET Framework (David Ramel)
Recommended container limits for dotnet-monitor (Mark Downie)
How to send Email in C# .NET using SMTP and SendGrid (Niels Swimberghe)
COM asynchronous interfaces, part 7: Being called directly when the operation completes (Raymond Chen)
What’s new in .NET 7 Preview 1 – Introducing the new Regex Source Generator (Jose Perez Rodriguez)
Getting Started With .NET 7.0 (Satya Karki)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Scale Your Views With The New Workspace Calendar (Jordan Mirchev)
Why I was ready to pay for a Git client (Stefan Antal)
GitLab 14.8 released with new SSH key types and security approval policies (Brian Rhea)
The federal Zero Trust strategy and Microsoft’s deployment guidance for all (Emma Jones)
Breaking down CI/CD complexity with parent-child and multi-project pipelines (Fabio Pitino)
Get started with ease using security workflows! (Pulkit Agarwal)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The New Datetime Component In Ionic (Mike Hartington)
How To Easily Capture Android HTTPS Mobile Traffic (Nikolay Iliev)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Sysdig Cloud Native Security and Usage Report, with Anna Belak (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Your Daily Scrum: Are User Stories Required in Scrum? (Ryan Ripley)
RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2022 with Bob Ward (Richard Campbell)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping Agile teams when the Product Owners are absent | Usman Kotwal (Vasco Duarte)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 447 | Office in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Pitches Legacy G-Suite Customers, and More Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
How to set-up Call Forwarding in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
Cloud enabled Commodore 64 (moozzyk)
Google Security Podcast Episode 53 – Seven Years of SOAR: What’s Next? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
ReWork Podcast – Build Half a Product, Not a Half-Assed Project (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 417 – Finally, an AI bot that can ace technical interview questions (Ben Popper)
Functional Geekery Episode 135 – Jordan Miller (Steven Proctor)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 344 (Jason Bock)
Super fast transactions in low milli-seconds using Cosmos DB and Redis with Bryden Oliver (SSW TV)
Grokking gRPC – Adventures in .NET 108 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Front End Architecture – JavaScript Jabber 522 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)

Community & Events

Diversity and inclusion: At the heart of my love for the Oracle community (Edwin Montouté)
Paul Farmer’s legacy is the lives he saved (Bill Gates)
Highlights of the First-Ever API Fest: Powered by Students, for Students (Ali Mustufa)
Black Innovators That Paved the Way (Britney Blodget)
Google for Games Developer Summit returns March 15 (Greg Hartrell)
Q4 2021 user survey results: about null safety, ecosystem, text editing, and mobile development (JaYoung Lee)
Helping Brazilians In STEM and Asian MVPs Join Hour of Code (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

Database

NoSQL — now showing in a free tier near you (Paul Guerin)
ADX User-Defined Scalar Functions and Azure Data Explorer Articles and Videos and ADX User-Defined Tabular Data Functions (David Giard)
GitHub Advisory Database now open to community contributions (Kate Catlin)
SQL Query Performance Tuning Tips (Eduardo Pivaral)
The basic T-SQL SELECT statement (Greg Larsen)
Help, not all of my column is displaying in the output of the query! (Kenneth Fisher)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Learn from the community: Microsoft AI MVP designs a Microsoft Teams bot to centralize tools for employees (Ayca Bas)

Miscellaneous

Power Automate for desktop – February 2022 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
The find/replace box in Notepad++ is Turing Complete (0xdanelia)
Rust Compiler Ambitions for 2022 (Felix Klock & Wesley Wiser)
reMarkable 2 review: Paper goes digital (Patrick Gray)
An intro to AI, made for students (Reena Jana)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3416 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – February 23rd, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Righting Software (Juval Löwy) – Referral Link