Dew Drop – February 16, 2022 (#3623)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 13 (David Ortinau)
• Bringing you closer to what you love with new experiences in Windows 11 (Panos Panay)
• #30DaysOfPWA #02 – Deconstructing Progressive Web Apps (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Introducing Compatible Packages on NuGet.org (Jon Douglas)
• Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available! (Dominic Nahous)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure SDK Release (February 2022) (Azure SDK Team)
• Angular Dependency Injection: A Complete Guide (Chameera Dulanga)
• Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse and Azure CLI: Delete All Resources Within Resource Group (Chris Pietschmann)
• Disguising Podman as Docker Desktop on Windows (Mark Richards)
• Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Search DriveItems for Only Files (Brian T. Jackett)
• Smarter Defaults by Paying Attention (Eric Lawrence)
• Introducing Postman’s API Uptime Monitor in Open Beta (Charlie Lu)
• Announcing authorization support for Google Identity Services APIs (Rohey Livne)
• Can TypeScript Help More Developers Adopt ECMAScript Modules (Mary Branscombe)
• Access Postman Audit Logs with the Postman API (Suhas Gaikwad)
• How Everything We’re Told About Website Identity Assurance is Wrong (Troy Hunt)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Harmonic Interfaces with MonettelliUIKIT in Xamarin.Forms Vol 1 (Daniel Angel Monettelli L.)
• Implement Folder Picker with .NET MAUI, WinUI and macOS (Gerald Versluis)
• .NET MAUI – Exploring Overlays – Part 2 (Michael Ridland)

Visual Studio & .NET

• #OpenCV – Detect and blur faces using haar cascades in C# (Bruno Capuano)
• C# 11.0 preview: parameter null checking (Ian Griffiths)
• COM asynchronous interfaces, part 2: Abandoning the operation (Raymond Chen)
• .NET Framework February 2022 Cumulative Update Preview (Tara Overfield)
• Microsoft Orleans documentation (Orleans SDK for .NET) (Microsoft Docs)
• Logging Trace Output Using ILogger in .NET Applications (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics 2.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Goal-Driven Kanban (Anastasia Galeeva & Mikhail Serebrennikov)
• Why you don’t just buy tools to make DevOps happen (Matt Gordon)
• Can teams be accountable for delivery of features? (Tim Ottinger)
• Test Studio R1 2022 Removes Barriers to Native Chrome Automation (Asya Ivanova)
• How to use GitVersion to get sensible versioning (Dennis Doomen)
• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.4 improves developer productivity and adds reusable workflows to CI/CD (Ian Marsh)
• UX Writing – What It Is, Guidelines, and Best Practices (Katie Mikova)
• Do You Know Which Factors Motivate Each Of Your Employees? Here Are 4 To Consider (Kat Boogaard)
• 10 Tips To Become A Good Programmer (Mahesh Chand)
• Get actionable steps to grow your knowledge base (Nicole Weaver)
• 10 Reasons why your business needs CI/CD (Valerie Silverthorne)
• Updated design guidance for Viva Connections custom cards and quick views (Vesa Juvonen)
• Why Microsoft’s return to the office may not be the norm across the rest of the tech industry (Todd Bishop)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (Tom Warren)
• Customers can now preview the Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 (Amazon Appstore Developer Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Rancher Desktop, with Matt Farina (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 446 | Microsoft Tries to Make Nice With FTC and Microsoft Teams Saving the Environment (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Your Daily Scrum: Help! My Scrum Team Wants to Cancel All Retrospectives! (Ryan Ripley)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The missing alignment that was killing the Agile team | Jan Neudecker (Vasco Duarte)
• CoreWCF – What’s new and what’s next | On .NET (James Montemagno & Matt Connew)
• Webinar with Adam Furmanek: Hacking C# (Andrea Brezinova)
• The Changelog – Git your reset on (Annie Sexton, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 342 (Jason Bock)
• 8 Bits with Regina Bluman! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS (Jeremy Jung)
• RunAs Radio – Bringing Viva into your Intranet with Tracy van der Schyff (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – The National Postal Forum – More than 5 decades of spotlighting the Postal Service’s latest and greatest (Yasmine Di Giulio & Dale Parsan)
• The New TeamCity Video Tutorials (Yegor Naumov)

Community & Events

• The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️ (Anisha Pindoria)
• Faces of Unity – Tai Wingfield (Unity Community Team)
• Webinar: Roslyn source generators with Stefan Polz (PostSharp Team)
• Announcing the 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub (Ashley Bass)
• The Dev Talk Show (Feb 16) – Working with Git: Practical Tips (Andy Schwam, Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)

Database

• FORMAT is a convenient but expensive SQL Server function – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• Azure DB for MySQL – Replication (Arun Sirpal)
• Deleting individual records in a table (Slavik Neimer)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Learn from the community: Chatbot for Microsoft Teams personal and group chats (Ayca Bas)
• Microsoft Teams now has new 3D emoji (Tom Warren)
• Teams JS SDK v2 Public Preview Update: Teams Apps in Office.com & Office App for Windows (Zakiullah Khan)
• Windows 365 Cloud PC Healthcare Blog Series (Juan Sifuentes)
• Extending the Viva Connections Dashboard with Custom and 3rd Party Apps (Mike Gannotti)

PowerShell

• Windows 11 includes new BCD PowerShell cmdlets (Michael Niehaus)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft extends Emissions Impact Dashboard to Microsoft 365 (Aimee Chanthadavong)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3411 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – February 16th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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