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Dew Drop – May 13, 2022 (#3684)

Posted on May 13, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Regular Expression Improvements in .NET 7 (Stephen Toub)
Now in Android – a new, open source, real-world sample app (Paris Hsu & Don Turner)
Announcing the Flutter Casual Games Toolkit (Zoey Fan)
A “Quick Edit” bookmarklet to make changes to any web site (Chris Heilmann)
CSLA Version 6.0.0 release (Rocky Lhotka)
The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6 (Vinod Sridharan)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes 1.24: gRPC container probes in beta (Sergey Kanzhelev)
5 Key Tips for Beginners Learning JavaScript (Branson Tachao)
Deploying Blazor WebAssembly applications to Azure Static Web Apps (Damir Arh)
Blazor WebAssembly for Headless CMS on Azure Static Web Apps (Justin Yoo)
30 Days of SWA #11: Share Content with Docusaurus & Azure Static Web Apps (Nitya Narasimhan)
Light and dark mode in just 14 lines of CSS (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Microsoft: Web Forms Is No Silverlight (David Ramel)
Getting Started with Unstated Next (Andrew Evans)
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 2 (James Dawson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

ActivityIndicator in .NET MAUI Made easy (Leomaris Reyes)
View PDF Pages as Thumbnails Using Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)
LiveCharts Announces Support for Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to better configure C# and .NET applications for SendGrid (Niels Swimberghe)
Override vs New Polymorphism In C# .NET (Wade Gausden)
Should I pay attention to the warning that I’m std::move‘ing from a trivial type? Part 1 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Stakeholder Trust (James Shore)
DZone Refcard #084: Continuous Integration Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Nicolas Giron & Hicham Bouissoumer)
50 Quick Ideas To Improve Your Agile Transformation (Karl Scotland)
Redefining the term ’10x Developer’ (Dan Clarke)
Zero Trust Strategy: Part 2 Identity (Brandon DeVault)
Feedback on “Soul > Features” (George Stocker)
Why Do Company Culture And Company Values Matter? | Trello (Genevieve Michaels)
How To Quote Project Budgets You Can Actually Meet (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s new with Android for Cars (Jennifer Chui & Rod Lopez)
What’s new with Google TV & Android TV OS (Shobana Radhakrishnan & Paul Lammertsma)
Perspectives from early adopters of Flutter as a game development tool (Tao Dong)
Build Secure Ionic Apps with Angular and JHipster (Matt Raible)
Expanding the robotics toolbox: Physics changes in Unity 2022.1 (Anthony Yakovlev)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CppCast – Podcast News and Updates with Rob and Jason (Rob Irving)
.NET Core Podcast – AWS Microservices Extractor for .NET with Josh Hurley and Norm Johanson (Jamie Taylor)
Hanselminutes – A Software Tester’s Career Path with Nicola Lindgren (Scott Hanselman)
Delivering Business Outcomes, Not Just Metrics – Adventures in DevOps 113 (Jillian Rowe & Will Button)
How To Navigate and Pass Objects in .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
SQL Insider Series: Restoring a backup from LTR in Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed (Microsoft Developer)
Ask the Microsoft Teams team anything | Christi and Srividya (Microsoft Teams)
Rocket 385: Solemn Thoughts! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 18 : Music Tech Pioneers II : Digidesign : The Early Years ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Evan Brooks)
Design Details 439: Config 2022 (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 441 – Software is adopted, not sold (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 183: What Type of Safety Can You Get with TypeScript? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Talk Python to Me #365: Solving Negative Engineering Problems with Prefect (Michael Kennedy)
Windows Weekly 776: The Outlook’s Oblique (Paul Thurrott)
Software Defined Talk Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing? (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Announcing our Speaker Lineup for Meta’s Inaugural Conversations Conference (Matthew Idema)

Database

Steps for Upgrading Always On SQL Servers and Skipping Versions (Jim Evans)
Indexing for Delete – SQL in Sixty Seconds #197 (Pinal Dave)
Google Announces AlloyDB To Free Users From Legacy Databases (Kay Ewbank)

SharePoint & MS Teams

New Release: SharePointDsc v5.2 has been published! (Yorick Kuijs)

Miscellaneous

My White House remarks on COVID (Bill Gates)
How Windows speech-to-text and other tools can help address educational inequity (Athima Chansanchai)
An unfiltered look back at April Fools’ 2022 (David Gibson)
The big roundup of Still Just A Geek press (Wil Wheaton)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3470 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #711 (Mary Lou)
Code Maze Weekly #123 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Wolf Report – May 13th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – January 28, 2022 (#3609)

Posted on January 28, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Foldable SDK update with Jetpack Window Manager (Sorin Albu)
Flutter Update: Windows – Tune in 2/3 at 10:00AM PST for exciting news for Windows developers about Flutter (Flutter Team)
Hanselminutes – Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos (Scott Hanselman)
Deploying Uno Platform Applications to Azure (Uno Platform Team)
No Dogma Podcast #160 – Brandon Minnick, .NET MAUI (Bryan Hogan)
Get Started | Create a WinUI 3 app (updated) (Windows Dev Docs)

Web & Cloud Development

Using MailMerge in ASP.NET Core 6 Web Applications and Adding SVG Watermarks to Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6 (Brennan Conroy)
Implementing OAuth 2 Using Node.js (Chinedu Imoh)
How to Use Serilog in ASP.NET Core Web API (Claudio Bernasconi)
WebStorm 2022.1 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Outlook JavaScript API deprecation for AttachmentDetails.contentType property (Microsoft Office Team)
Pure and Impure Functions in JavaScript: A Complete Guide (Ravindu Shehan Perera)
Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers (Vijay Kumar)
Getting Halo Infinite Match Stats With Official Halo API (Den Delimarsky)
Learn Responsive Design (Brad Frost)
Cloud trends show customers increasing investments in hybrid and multicloud (Erin Chapple)
Updating Gulp Sass 4 to Gulp Sass 5 (Jason Gaylord)
How to Build a Jamstack Application in Postman (Joyce Lin)
Jan. releases: Pulumi Packages support for plugins hosted anywhere and Pulumi Service 3rd party audit for secrets decryption (Meagan Cojocar)
Hot Chocolate GraphQL Pagination Using Cursor Technique [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
Is a Multicloud Strategy Right for Your Organization? (Ron Powell)
Which .NET GraphQL Clients Should Your App Use? (Sameer Doshi)
GoLand 2022.1 Early Access Program Has Started! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
Top Ten Most Common Web Accessibility Issues (TPGi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Platform Specific Code using Partial Classes in .NET MAUI (Dave Murray)
Multiple Selection Made Easy Using the WinUI 3 ComboBox Control (Jegan R)

Visual Studio & .NET

Difference Between ValueTuple and Tuple in C# (Code Maze)
NDepend: Static Analysis for .NET (Cody Merritt Anhorn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Creating the Conditions for Developer Happiness (Jeremy D. Miller)
App Modernization: 5 Tips When Migrating to Kubernetes (Nicolas Vermande)
Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams (Lori Colston)
What is a wireframe? The definitive guide (Sketch Team)
The Retirement of SpecFlow+ Runner (Andreas Willich)
You Don’t Have to Pay the A**hole Tax: How to Avoid Working for a Bad Boss (Brandi Neal)
Git: Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch (Chris Coyier)
Creating an API-First Culture and Company, Part 1 (Karthik Krishnaswamy)
The Guide to PubSub (Publish/Subscribe) (Leonardo Maldonado)
A practical right-to-left example (Steve Fenton)
How To Schedule Your Day Effectively (Tyler Hakes)
The Role of CI/CD Pipeline in Software Development (Vishal Rustagi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building apps for Android Automotive OS (Madan Ankapura)
Flutter: Introducing `url_router` – A simple Router controller. (Shawn Blais)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CppCast – Docker Development and Modernizing OOD with Yacob Cohen-Arazi (Rob Irving)
Dos and Don’ts of Blockchain – Adventures in DevOps 102 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Azure Podcast Episode 409 – Azure Service Connector (Sujit D’Mello)
Getting the Right SignalR with Andrew Evans – Adventures in Angular 338 (Armen Vardanyan & Charles Max Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Motivating new teams with the Superpowers retrospective format | Priyanka Gorai (Vasco Duarte)
Get started with Microsoft Teams in Mobile (Microsoft Teams)
Rocket 370: Not Garbage! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
One Dev Question – What is the BAMStack? (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
UX Podcast #281 – Organisational trauma with Vivianne Castillo (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Web Rush Episode 168: Create web apps using Firebase with Ankit Sharma (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Radical Candor S4, Ep. 1: Rock Star Mode Versus Superstar Mode (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
Talk Python to Me #350: Python Steering Council 2021 Retrospective (Michael Kennedy)
8 Bits with Mark Allibone! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy (Ryan Donovan)
Fairness and Helping Each Other – 10 tips with Adam Cogan and Keep your npm and Yarn packages up to date and Don’t just say hello on IM and Super fast transactions using Cosmos DB and Redis (SSW TV)

Community & Events

How a student leader cultivates on-campus diversity and leadership in Australia (Matthew Ranocchiari)
Forest Guard: Microsoft Student Hackathon winners create rapid-response deforestation sensor (Jacob Block)
Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin: Announcing the Winners (Ksenia Shneyveys)
Inspiring Women: Leslie Ramirez (Leomaris Reyes)

Database

Cumulative Update #15 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
An Overview of System Function LOGINPROPERTY for SQL Login Details (Manvendra Singh)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Introducing Device Trade-In for Microsoft Teams (Meera Ajam)
CLI for Microsoft 365 v4.4 (Arjun Menon)
From empowering frontline workers to accessibility improvements—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

macOS 12.3 Will Break Cloud-Storage Features Used By Dropbox and OneDrive (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22543 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Fake a Cleaner, Cooler Workspace in 2022 with Free Virtual Backgrounds (Jacqueline Bieringer)
4 AI Themes for Businesses in 2022 (Microsoft in Business Team)
Windows Server End of Support: Key Dates (Pat Widjaja)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3399 (Chris Alcock)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.01.28 (Jay Gordon)
Collective #696 (Mary Lou)
The Wolf Report – January 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 336 – 28th Jan 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
PHP Annotated — January 2022 (Roman Pronskiy)

The Geek Shelf

Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 6, 2021 (#3417)

Posted on April 6, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing Open Source C# standardization (Bill Wagner)
Tetris in Blazor Part 3: Tetrominos (Matthew Jones)
A look under the hood: how branches work in Git (Tobias Günther)
Getting Started with PSArm (Ravikanth C.)
Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats (Heather Harvey)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Functions Not Loading My Dependencies, What Have I Missed? (Adam Storr)
HTTPRepl and OpenApi features for Asp.NET WebApi (Bruno Sonnino)
Node.js Server Monitoring: A How to Guide (Christoph Leitner)
3 Ways to Merge Arrays in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Vanilla JavaScript Code Snippets (Vitaly Friedman)
Creating a Smart Navbar With Vanilla JavaScript (Jemima Abu)
Kubernetes Storage Options Can Be Overwhelming — Pick the Right One (Sirish Bathina)
Announcing the new Azure Communication Services Libraries GA (Jorge Garcia Hirota)
Blazor WASM 404 error and fix for GitHub Pages (Kristoffer Strube)
Create ZIP files on HTTP request without intermediate files using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Niels Swimberghe)
FHIR enabling an Immunization registry – part 4 (David Hay)
How we scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis (Robert Mosolgo)
TypeScript Roadmap – What’s New and What’s Coming (Vigneshwaran Balasubramani)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Getting started with CollectionView in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 pattern matching (Tom Deseyn)
Convert PDF to Text in C#, VB, and Java (Zac Cole)
Moving to Desktop Applications in .NET Core/.NET 5 (Peter Vogel)
Machine Learning with ML.NET – Object detection with YOLO (Nikola M. Zivkovic)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Best Practices in Software Development: An Inside Look at What Guides Progress—Part 1 (Mandy Mowers)
Why Design Thinking is So Important (Ngodoo Iye)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Start Your Engines: Launch New Android Auto Apps to Production! (Eric Bahna)
Making your Android App an Android Instant App (j2inet)
Introducing Swift Collections (Karoy Lorentey)
Introducing the New Flutter Linear Gauge Widget (Meikanda Nayanar I)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – VSCode Extensions and Tips (Wes Bos)
Technology & Friends – Ted Neward on Technology Culture (David Giard)
Revision Path – Julian Williams (Maurice Cherry)
Flutter 2.0 | Link Widget Explained (MTechViral)
The Changelog – The future of the web is HTML over the wire (Matt E. Patterson & Jerod Santo)
UI Breakfast Episode 210: Running a UX Patterns Library with Ramy Khuffash (Ramy Khuffash & Jane Portman)
AzureFunBytes – Intro to Cosmos DB with Mark Brown (Jay Gordon)
The Amp Hour #537 – Firmware Deployment and Troubleshooting with Akbar Dhanaliwala (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Hello World – Highlights – Week of March 29th, 2021 | Hello World (Frank Boucher)
DevTalk Podcast 60: Avalonia. With Mike James (Kerry Lothrop)
Radical Candor S3, Ep. 4: Gauge the Feedback You’re Giving & Getting (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
Ask the Expert: Hello, Brian – A conversation with Dr. Brian Kernighan, creator of “hello, world” (Burke Holland & Morgan Bell)
Dynamic Logging with Tracepoints (Ozcode)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Web programming with nothing but Python (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Azure Podcast Episode 371 – Cloud Native Machine Learning (Sujit D’Mello)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 190 – Microservices with Sean Whitesell (John Callaway)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 36: As the Cheese Melts: Trader Joe’s “Professor Matt” Tells Us About That (Trader Joe’s Team)

Database

Create, Populate, and Transform Geographic Coordinates in SQL Server Tables (Rick Dobson)

Miscellaneous

Programming Book Choices For Fun (Kay Ewbank)
Don’t Copy That Surface (Bruce Dawson)
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case (Adi Robertson)
How to rename files instantly using PowerRename in PowerToys on Windows 10 (Dave W. Shanahan)
paint.net 4.2.16 beta build 7765 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3204 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-06 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Notes – #57 (Miguel Bernard)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition (Andrew Lock) – Now Available – Referral Link

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