The Morning Dew

Daily links for web, Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – October 14, 2021 (#3537)

Posted on October 14, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

KubeCon North America 2021: Kubernetes on Azure and open source updates (Brendan Burns)
Update on our new AWS .NET Deployment Experience (Norm Johanson)
.NET Rocks! – C# 10 with Mads Torgersen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
ReSharper 2021.2.2 and Rider 2021.2.2 bug fixes have landed (Asia Rudenko)
Learn to write Visual Studio extensions (Mads Kristensen)

Web & Cloud Development

Migrating our trusty ol’ .NET Framework applications to AWS, I couldn’t believe it! (François Bouteruche)
Azure Machine Learning announcements – Oct 2021 public preview capabilities and Azure SQL—Public preview updates for October 2021 and Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.22 and Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 337 – How to run Cognitive Service Text Analytics for Health in a Web App for Containers (Azure Team)
Azure SDK Release (October 2021) (Azure SDK Team)
Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS (Chris Coyier)
Taking a Look at startTransition in React 18 (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
How to Secure Kubernetes, the OS of the Cloud (Loris Degioanni)
Get Your Head Together With Blazor’s New HeadContent and PageTitle (Niels Swimberghe)
React-Hooks: What is The Difference Between useCallback And useMemo? (Sahil Sachdeva)
ESLint v8.0.1 released (ESLint Team)
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag: Operating Microservices (InfoQ Team)
V8 release v9.6 (Ingvar Stepanyan)
How To Build GitHub Activity Dashboard With Open-Source (John Lafleur)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Tips and Ticks when creating a Custom Control in Xamarin Forms. Part. 2 (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

The Problem with C# 10 Implicit Usings (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
Hot Reload in .NET 6 – An Overview (Mohamed Yasir Kader Sha)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Art of Agile Development Discord Server (James Shore)
Why solve a problem twice? Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code (Giridhar Talla)
How we use telemetry to improve Octopus Deploy (Terence Wong)
Get Started With Cross-Browser Testing (Dennis Martinez)
Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions (Johanna Rothman)
TeamCity 2021.2 RC is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Swift-DocC is Now Open Source (Franklin Schrans)
Windows Holographic version 21H2 is now available for HoloLens 2 headsets (Rabia Noureen)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – A Podcast on Running a Podcast (Wes Bos)
GCast 116: Azure Active Directory B2C Token Generation With No User Interaction (David Giard)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 044: Facebook’s No Good Very Bad Week (Ben Nadel)
Asp.Net Monsters #226 – Building GitHub Actions in C# (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
PPP 340 | Why You Should 80-20 Everything, with Perry Marshall (Andy Kaufman)
The Google Cloud Security Podcast – NEXT Special – Google Cybersecurity Action Team: What’s the Story? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Design Details 415: News Desk, Vol. 3 (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
Web Rush Episode 155: Building a Technology Radar with Maria Korneeva (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Welcome to the Imagine Cup! (Pablo Veramendi, Morgan Bell & Seth Juarez)
Microsoft Cloud for Health Overview & Human Centered Design (Shelly Avery, Vasu Sharma & Josh Thompson)
The MongoDB Podcast #82 – Serverless with Chris Shum (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)

Community & Events

Pluralsight LIVE 2021 Week 1 recap: Stronger together (Pluralsight)
Reconnect Series: John F. Holliday (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Surprise: There are Many Windows 11 Sessions at Ignite (Paul Thurrott)
10 reasons you can’t miss SIGNAL (Sara Varni)

Database

SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more) (Jen McCown)
SQL SERVER – Renaming distributor_admin Bad Idea (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams Desktop Client Gets Quoted Reply Feature for Chat (Russell Smith)

Miscellaneous

Next time, we can close the vaccine gap much faster (Bill Gates)
Blog Archive Online (Rocky Lhotka)
Autoruns v14.05 (Alex Mihaiuc)
PowerToys 0.47.1 is now available with minor fixes and quality of life improvements (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3332 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-14 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 13, 2021 (#3536)

Posted on October 13, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 9 (David Ortinau)
Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 (Richard Lander)
Introducing OpenSilver 1.0 (OpenSilver Team)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 (Daniel Roth)
Join us November 8 for the Launch of Visual Studio 2022 (Amanda Silver)

Web & Cloud Development

Cursor Paging With Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Azure AD to Microsoft Graph migration for Azure command line tools. (Damien Caro)
Useful React APIs For Building Flexible Components With TypeScript (Gaurav Khanna)
Self Diagnosing Deployments with Oakton and Lamar (Jeremy D. Miller)
Auth0 Identity Platform Now Available on Microsoft Azure (Kaycie East)
Which Azure Container Solution is right for you? (Lee Briggs)
Blazor’s AOT Compilation Isn’t the Silver Bullet You’re Expecting (Matthew MacDonald)
Combine Form Fields, Merge Fields and Signature Boxes to Request Signatures (Bjoern Meyer)
Angular Basics: Data Binding Part 6—Input Decorator (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 1.0 (Vivek Lakshmanan)
W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1 (Xueyuan Jia)
Electron 15 Adds String Encoding API (Kay Ewbank)
Node v16.11.1 (Current) and Node v14.18.1 (LTS) and Node v12.22.7 (LTS) (Danielle Adams)
Accessibility (UIA) Troubleshooting (Eric Lawrence)
Announcing the Google Forms API (Christian Schalk)
Simple HTTP Server in .Net (j2inet)
Introducing Resource Methods for Pulumi Packages (Justin Van Patten)
Jamstack Developers’ Favorite Frameworks of 2021 (Laurie Voss)
Improving how Microsoft Edge processes appear in Task Manager (Allison Pastewka)
Solo.io Adds GraphQL to Gloo Mesh and Gloo Edge (Mike Melanson)
Native Badges Come to Progressive Web Applications (Uno Platform Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Silverlight Lives On With OpenSilver (Mike James)
Adventure Planning With the First WinUI DateTimePicker (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
The Windows Package Manager (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer Tools? (Chris Heilmann)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# and Java Code to Digitally Sign PDF Files With a Certificate (Gabriel Smith)
Visual Studio Project System Tools for .NET (.NET Team)
.NET October 2021 Updates – 5.0.11 and 3.1.20 (Sanket Kalaskar)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Design Patterns Overview (Steve Smith)
Azure DevOps Locally-Hosted Build Agent With Global NPM/.NET Tools (Charles Flatt)
A PKI-less secure communication channel: Using TLS (Oren Eini)
Better Scrum Through Essence (Ian Spence)
The happy hand: A puzzle about odd names in Azure DevOps (Raymond Chen)
Trello’s Top Project Management Hacks For Engineering Teams (Sam Milbrath)
How I use Polywork to overcome impostor syndrome (Scott Brady)
Dev Tips – Stand Up for Stand Up (Adam Storr)
Essential Engineering Skills For Every Software Architect (Ankur Kumar)
Learning to not fear the unknown (David Humphrey)
15 flags that your testability practices need maturing (Dennis Doomen)
Effective delegation: Assign ownership (Eric Brechner)
Get branching with Git (Ted Krueger)
Do Your UX Designs Support Content Authors? (Tiffany Olejnik)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Choosing the Right Data Storage Solution: Ionic Storage, Capacitor Storage, SQLite, or Ionic Secure Storage? (Kim Maida)
Azure for Game Developers Part 3: LiveOps and Analytics with the Microsoft Game Stack (Raphael Mun)
Compose for Wear OS now in Developer Preview! (Jeremy Walker)
Announcing Stencil v2.9 (Anthony Giuliano)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft Stories Podcast: Season 2, episode 1 – Tackling climate change starts with measuring your actions (Katie Gale)
RunAs Radio – PrintNightmare with Jeremy Moskowitz and RunAs Radio – Windows Package Manager with Sarah Lean and RunAs Radio – Azure Communication Services with Mary Anne Noskowski (Richard Campbell)
DevOps Lab | Hashicorp Series | Episode 2 | How to terraform everything | The DevOps Lab (April Edwards & Kyle Ruddy)
Flutter Q&A with Chris Sells, Senior Product Manager at Google on Flutter – Part 2 [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
AzureFunBytes Episode 59 – Remote Possibilities with @burkeholland (Jay Gordon)
Asp.Net Monsters #226 – Building GitHub Actions in C# (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
Model virtual machine costs with the Azure Cost Estimator Power BI Template | Azure Enablement Show (Sarah Lean & Jeff Amels)
Learn from the MVPs: Inside Microsoft Teams – Season 4 (Mercedes Orasch)
ID10T Podcast – Stanley Tucci (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 430 | Facebook: BGP?, Whats New in Microsoft 365 and the News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 234: Communication Tips for the IT Pro (Carlos L. Chacon)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 306 (Jason Bock)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 481: Ipek Ozkaya on Managing Technical Debt (Jeff Doolittle)
VS 2022 64-bit – Adventures in .NET 090 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)

Community & Events

The Future of the .NET Foundation and .NET OSS (Aaron Stannard)
NEXT Special – Cloud Security and DEI: Being an Ally! (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Developer Influence 2021 (Brad Oliver)
What makes a great submission for summit (James Petty)
What’s new for Microsoft partners: October 2021 edition (MS Partner Network Team)
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring (Toya East)

Database

SQL SERVER – List of Trace Events (Pinal Dave)
Restoring to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2 (Arun Sirpal)

PowerShell

A closer look at the parsing code of a Crescendo output handler (Sean Wheeler)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Twain Films (Shawn Wildermuth)
Cybersecurity: Rebuilding after an attack (Jeremy Maxwell)
Zunepedia – Zune Digital Coffee Table Book (Peter Bull)
Autoruns v14.04, high DPI icons for WinObj, Tcpview, Process Monitor and build tools refresh (Alex Mihaiuc)
Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.47.1, fixing bugs in FancyZones and more (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
A new PC is a great way to get Windows 11 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3331 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-13 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Git for Programmers: Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 12, 2021 (#3535)

Posted on October 12, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Prime your flux capacitor: SQL Server temporal tables in EF Core 6.0 (Jeremy Likness)
GPU accelerated ML workflows broadly available in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Clarke Rahrig)
Shrink your WSL2 Virtual Disks and Docker Images and Reclaim Disk Space (Scott Hanselman)
Case Study: Using Visual Studio Profiler to reduce memory allocations in the Windows Terminal console host startup path (Austin Lamb)
Webview UI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (David Dossett & Hawk Ticehurst)
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available! (Craig Loewen)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploring Observables in JavaScript Programming (Nathan Rozentals)
What’s New in Progressive Web Apps in Microsoft Edge 96 (MS Edge Team)
GraphQL & REST with Typescript, Prisma and Azure SQL: love at first sight! (Davide Mauri)
Making a dynamic Image Viewer Panel with Comet’s JavaScript SDK (Michael Cullan)
Creating a Game in Blazor – Part 4 – Platform and Collision (Paul Michaels)
StackBlitz September 2021 Update (Tomek Sulkowski)
Announcing the Release of kpack 0.4.0 (Beena More)
VMware Tanzu Build Service 1.3 Is Now Available (Beena More)
ARM Template Visualizer (Dennes Torres)
Google OAuth incremental authorization improvement (Vikrant Rana & Badi Azad)
How To Create a Restful Client in Go? (Mihalis Tsoukalos)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the New WinUI 3 ComboBox (Jegan Raj M)
Windows App SDK (‘Project Reunion’) Polished Ahead of v1.0 GA Debut (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Supporting EF Core migrations with WebApplicationBuilder: Exploring .NET Core 6 – Part 5 (Andrew Lock)
Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 4 (Gabor Horvath)
Copy Code Reference in ReSharper and Rider 2021.3 EAP (Matthias Koch)
Updating NuGet packages from command-line – deep dive (Thomas Ardal)
Marten V4: Hard Deletes, Soft Deletes, Un-Deletes, All the Deletes You Meet (Jeremy D. Miller)
How to add logs on Console with .NET Core and Serilog (Davide Bellone)
Enable .NET CLI Tab Completion (Cody Merritt Anhorn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps Response to GitKraken SSH Bug (Gloridel Morales)
GitHub Enterprise Adds Centralized User Accounts (Kay Ewbank)
The inefficiency of tests (Tim Ottinger)
Amazon will leave remote work decisions to individual team leaders in new policy twist (Todd Bishop)
Shift to remote work prompted more cybersecurity questions than any breach (David Gibson)
Setting up Dependabot with GitHub actions to approve and merge (Jeff Yates)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Made with Unity: Creating and training a robot digital twin (Anthony Navarro)
Erase pen handling code with the Ink SDK (Kristen Halper)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Neat Things in CSS Color – Current and Coming! (Wes Bos)
Revision Path – Eric Bailey (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: Rosaria Silipo on Codeless Deep Learning and Visual Programming (Rosaria Silipo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast 383: A database built for a firehose (Ryan Donovan)
Microsoft Mechanics – How to Manage Cloud Spend In Azure — With Your Endpoint of Choice (Jeremy Chapman & Matt McSpirit)
Xamarin Alerts, Dialogs and More on Steroids with Acr.UserDialogs (Gerald Versluis)
Fragmented – The Software Podcast 223: Productivity with TODO Apps and Personal Knowledge Management Systems (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
SQL Server Radio Episode 133 – Good news, everyone! (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 215 – Rebuilding the Plane Mid-Air w/ David Merk (John Callaway)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 138 – Carmen Ysewijn (Qubix) and Luise Freese (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Women in Technology Podcast – Giving Back! (WiT Podcast Team)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Oracle ACE Mirela Ardelean Previews the 2021 Oracle Groundbreakers EMEA Virtual Tour (Bob Rhubart)
UI Breakfast – BDTP. Email Automation & Customer Experience with Jordan Skole (Jane Portman)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Building a Solution with Low-Code Tools with Carmen Ysewijn and Luise Freese (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Performance architecture talk (Oren Eini)
JS Roundup: Episode 03 (Aleksandra Aganezova)

Community & Events

Free Workshop 05: Introduction to Agile Leadership [Review & Retro] (Martin Hinshelwood)
Twilio Gives Back Globally (Twilio)
NEXT Special – Google Cloud NEXT Security: What to Watch? (Anton A. Chuvakin)

Database

SQL String functions in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL (Andrea Gnemmi)
SQL Express Size Limit for Data File (Pinal Dave)
Use Indexes for blazing-fast queries on your API for MongoDB Data (Gahl Levy)

PowerShell

Working with .NET as a PowerShell Developer (Josphat Mutai)
Test your PowerShell code with Pester (Chris Noring)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Translator: Now translating 100 languages and counting! (Alyssa Hughes)
Microsoft Surface Devices – Chip to Cloud Secure – Part 1 (Christopher Knight)
Move Windows 11 Taskbar To Left (Mahesh Chand)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3330 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-12 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 323 – 12th Oct 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #28 (Sam Basu)
[Last Week in .NET #63] – .NET Foundation finds out the silent treatment doesn’t work, tries rolling heads (George Stocker)

The Geek Shelf

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

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