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Dew Drop – August 31, 2022 (#3755)

Posted on August 31, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing Flutter 3.3 at Flutter Vikings (Tim Sneath)
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code August 2022 Update (Sydney Smith)
Introducing Microsoft Teams App Camp (Bob German)
Refactor code to use new C# language features (Rachel Appel)
Building Custom Structural and Attribute Directives in Angular (Nethmi Wijesinghe)
Welcome to #ServerlessSeptember | Building Cloud Native Apps (Microsoft)

Web & Cloud Development

Troubleshooting .NET Blazor WASM Debugging (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Kubernetes 1.25: cgroup v2 graduates to GA (David Porter & Mrunal Patel)
Using AutoML, Python, and Azure to Classify Die Hard (Matt Eland)
Use Refresh Tokens in ASP.NET Core Apps (Andrea Chiarelli)
Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables (Geoff Graham)
Building an Image Carousel in JavaScript Is Now Easy! (Rajendran R)
Announcing new enhancements for Azure VMware Solution (Ram Gowrishankar)
Backstage Security Audit & Updates (Patrik Oldsberg)
.NET App Services: Containers or not containers, that’s the question (Dennes Torres)
Introducing Unified Observability Platform by VMware Aria Operations for Applications (Rachna Srivastava)

Visual Studio & .NET

Optimizing Corax: Optimizing tree operations (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio Build Tools Licensing Eased for Open Source C++ Projects (David Ramel)
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 25: The ARM64EC ABI (Raymond Chen)
Use Raw String Literals to generate TwiML in C# 11 (Niels Swimberghe)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Agile terms to boost your project management game | Trello (Dave Schafer)
Turning Methods Into Benchmarks (Assis Zang)
Microservice Tools: The Top 10 for Monitoring and Testing (Mandy Hubbard)
Testing and Software Quality: Creating Happy Users (Peter Vogel)
BuildRock: A Build Platform at Slack (Sandeep Baldawa)
How to Test a REST API with .NET and xUnit (Ryan Miranda)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s new in Flutter 3.3 (Kevin Jamaul Chisholm)
Wonderous: Explore the World with Flutter (Leigha Jarett)
Dart 2.18: Objective-C & Swift interop (Michael Thomsen)
Introducing the New Okta Mobile SDKs (Michael A. Machbaur)

Screencasts & Videos

.NET MAUI Maps: A First Look – Pins, Polygons and more! (Gerald Versluis)
Start using EF Core with your existing Azure SQL Database in 5 minutes | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Automation with Microsoft Playwright and Azure Logic Apps (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 391 (Jason Bock)
Interact with a GraphQL API from a .NET Core Application (MongoDB)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The missing ingredient for a Scrum team to be able to work remote! | Franziska Moenster (Vasco Duarte)
RunAs Radio – Managed Environments for PowerApps with April Dunnam (Richard Campbell)
Practical AI Podcast – Privacy in the age of AI (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy #524 – Predator Movies Review (with Theresa DeLucci, Zach Chapman, Stephen Graham Jones) (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch (Gavin Henry)
Staying on top of productivity – Adventures in .NET 133 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Sustainability (United States Postal Service)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Delightful Integration Testing with Oleg Šelajev (Bob Rhubart)

Community & Events

Live Webinar: Working With SQL and Databases in WebStorm (Aleksandra Aganezova)
Meet the Splunktern: Majd Khadra (Katia Ratkovich)
Introducing Twitter Circle, a new way to Tweet to a smaller crowd (Twitter)
Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees (Alex Heath)
Introducing the Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders Class of 2022 (Matt Ridenour)
Meet Brant Burnett – A Couchbase Ambassador (Brian King)
Announcing the Pulumi Challenge! (Kat Cosgrove)

Database

NoSQL Data Models for Large Document Data Stores (Maria Zakourdaev)
SQL Server and Oracle Transparent Data Encryption Differences and Similarities (Pablo Echeverria)
How to Create And Connect to an AWS RDS MySQL Database (Sagar)
Git’s database internals II: commit history queries (Derrick Stolee)
Intra-account container copy jobs for Core (SQL) and Cassandra API accounts (Preview) (Shweta Nayak)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Unboxing the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.15.2 release (Andrew Connell)
Announcing: To Do is now rolling out to Outlook for Windows (Avijit Yadav)

Miscellaneous

I can’t stop playing Wordle! (Bill Gates)
Sustainability at Microsoft (JD Meier)
Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers (Julia Liuson)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3533 (Chris Alcock)
Build5Nines Weekly – August 30, 2022 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 27, 2021 (#3493)

Posted on July 27, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Tune in July 29 for .NET Conf: Focus on F# (Beth Massi)
CSLA 5 and 6 (Rocky Lhotka)
Alpaca Preview: Native Swift with ASP.NET Core (Eric Sink)
Creating a Dapper Helper C# Class to Generate Parameterized SQL (Matthew Jones)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Write a Secure Python Serverless App on AWS Lambda (Phillip Edwards)
Inserting Text At The Last Known Selection / Caret Location In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Optimize your cloud spend with Azure (Azure Team)
Using the Web Share API in React (Peter Mbanugo)
Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Counter Styles Level 3 (Xueyuan Jia)
Protect Your SignalR Service Based Real-time Application with Application Gateway (Yan Jin)
Backstage: Software Templates is now in Beta (Ben Lambert)
Rust and WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Vercel (Michael Yuan)
I am writing a book about Razor Pages (Mike Brind)
Apache Cassandra 4.0 Comes in Ready For Production (Mike Melanson)
Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh (Andrew Nguonly, Armando Magalhães, Obi-Ike Nwoke, Shervin Afshar, Sreyashi Das, Tongliang Liu, Wei Liu & Yucheng Zeng)

Visual Studio & .NET

Introducing C# 10:Extended property patterns (Anthony Giretti)
Getting Started with Twitter API using SocialOpinion (Adam Storr)
Converting chunks to a string with ToString(): A deep dive on StringBuilder – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Better multi-tenancy with Octopus Deploy (Mark Harrison)
Code opinion: performance or clean code? (Davide Bellone)
Types of Tech Debt (Alec Cargin)
Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: How to Modernize Your SDLC (Daniel Odio)
What if GitHub Copilot Worked Like a Real Programmer? (Matthew MacDonald)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – The Surprisingly Exciting World of Favicons (Wes Bos)
Revision Path – Ron Bronson (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: Michael Perry on Immutable Architecture, CAP Theorem, and CRDTs (Michael Perry)
The Surface Podcast Series – Surface Laptop GO (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Blog Videos)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why startups should use Kubernetes from day one (Max Horstmann, Ben Popper & Ryan Donovan)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 68 – Scaling the Real Estate Industry with Jim McClarty of Keller Williams (Michael Lynn, & Nic Raboy)
Global reach of .NET – Adventures in .NET 079 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 205 – Polly with Bryan Hogan (John Callaway)
Google Cloud Security Podcast – Linking Up The Pieces: Software Supply Chain Security at Google and Beyond (Anton Chuvakin)

Community & Events

Free Workshop: Introduction to Agility and Building Awesome Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)
Announcing PowerShell, DevOps, and Cloud Conference 2021 (Ravikanth C.)
Celebrating the Raspberry Pi community: Laura (Katie Gouskos)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Khushboo Verma (MS Student Developer Team)
Stack Overflow: A design deep dive into how we created Collectives (Piper Lawson & Caro Guindon)

Database

SQL Server Recovery Models: A Quick Guide (Dinesh Muralitharan)
Tuning Query Cost 100% – SQL in Sixty Seconds #181 (Pinal Dave)
Working with business events and RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Planning for a Cloud Data Warehouse Project (Ron L’Esteve)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams gets more Phishing Protection! (Girish Chander)

PowerShell

PowerShell: Download script or file from GitHub (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft 365 apps won’t work with Internet Explorer 11. This is what going to happen from next month (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows 365 pricing: My predictions (Michael Niehaus)
Leaked Surface Duo 2 photos reveal new triple camera system (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3282 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #18 (Sam Basu)
Weekly Notes – #73 (Miguel Bernard)
[Last Week in .NET #52] – TwinCVEs (George Stocker)
Reading Notes #476 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – February 21, 2013 (#1,503)

Posted on February 21, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

IOC Containers and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)
Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework (Adam Denning)
Releasing Sample Browser for Windows 8 – Get Your "Hands" on 5000 Amazing Code Samples (Jialiang Ge)
MVP Summit presentation on async (Stephen Toub)
Glimpse – the open source diagnostics platform of the web (Glimpse Team) – Glimpse launched v1.0 this week.

Web Development

Windows Azure Blob Storage Polling Task (Alexandre Brisebois)
Pre-release of ASP.NET Scaffolding with a Web Forms scaffold generator (Anton Babadjanov)
Hand.js: a polyfill for supporting pointer events on every browser (David Catuhe)
Mix in a little Rx, JQuery, Azure, ASP.Net, Kinect… (Greg Duncan)
Wrox Video Walktrhough: Creating An ASP.NET Web Site – Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 (Jim Minatel)
How I Built a Windows Store App With HTML5 and SVG (Pietro Brambati)
SitePoint Code Challenge: CSS – Drop Down Menus (Sarah Hawk)
Connecting To SignalR With LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
New Windows Azure Videos on Channel 9 (Wes Yanaga)
Forms With AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
The Discourse Source Code Has Already Helped Me (Pete Seale)

XAML

Syncfusion Metro Studio 2 – A Collection of Predefined and Customizable Icons (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Phone Simulation Dashboard (Maciej Grabek)
2000 WPF Things #761 – How FlowDirection Affects HorizontalContentAlignment (Sean Sexton)
Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Steve Michelotti)
iOS developers who want to learn Windows 8 development (Jennifer Marsman)
CXML and DeepZoom on Azure (Tony Champion)
This package was deployed for development or authoring mode error in Windows App Cert Kit (David Isbitski)

Miscellaneous .NET

TFS API Part 48 – WorkItemControl And Bypass Work Item Rules and TFS API Part 49 – Delete Team Project (Shai Raiten)
Introducing Formo – Dynamic Configuration (Chris Missal)
Handling Arguments in JustMock Arrangements (Elena Pundjeva)
Jumping Into C++: Calculating Unknowns (Eric Battalio)
MSBuild Regex Transform Version Numbers (M. Lang)
CSLA 4 version 4.5.12 beta released (Rockford Lhotka)
2000 C# Things #785 – The Singleton Pattern (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to increase the Code Coverage in 2 easy steps (Peter Gfader)
A Program to explore Code Diff (Patrick Smacchia)
The Power of Positive Failure (Paul Ballard)
Testing Tip #3: Check startup time when there’s disk/network activity (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Beginning Test-Driven Development in Python (David Sale)
Getting Things Done with SWAT Mode (JD Meier)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Mike Hadlow Uses EasyNetQ to Talk RabbitMQ (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Central 156 – Mobile World Congress Warmup (Daniel Rubino)
Defrag: Fast Nav, 0xC000000D, Installing Stalls | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying (D’Arcy Lussier)
Connect All The Things – MVP Summit 2013 (Phillip Trelford)

Database

Basic SQL Server XML Querying (Seth Delconte)
How Does SQL Server Store Data? (Brent Ozar)
SSRS Properties – CanGrow and CanShrink (Jes Schultz Borland)
SQL SERVER – Shortcut to SELECT only 1 Row from Table (Pinal Dave)
Suppressing xp_cmdshell output (Denis Gobo)
Migrating from RavenDB to Cassandra (Aaron Stannard)
RavenDB ResultTransformers – a new way of looking at things (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

Pluralsight SharePoint 2013 Developer Ramp-Up Series by Critical Path Training (Updated for RTM) (Andrew Connell)
Defaulting Values in a Multi-Lookup Form in SharePoint (Bil Simser)

PowerShell

A Month of PowerShell – Day 20 (Databases: Table-Valued Functions) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 21 (Backups) (Wayne Sheffield)

Miscellaneous

Google Offers Us A Glimpse Of The Future With Their Latest Glass UI Video (Ben Reid)
Chrome app launcher developer preview (Sriram Saroop)
Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ is coming to the PlayStation 4 (Nathan Ingraham)
Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event (Sam Byford)
Blizzard announces Diablo III for PS3 and PS4, as part of ‘strategic partnership’ (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading February 20, 2013 (Rob Diana)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 20th (Rob Caron)
The Morning Brew #1300 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-21 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #1071 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: February 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 21/ 02/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Links 21 Feb 2013 (Jax)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
Link List: Becoming a Data Professional (Buck Woody)

The Geek Shelf

Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (Voices That Matter): Tim Kadlec, Aaron Gustafson: 9780321821683: Books

ISBN: 0321821688
ISBN-13: 9780321821683

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