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Dew Drop – October 7, 2022 (#3781)

Posted on October 7, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Authentication for .NET MAUI Apps with MSAL.NET (Sameer Khandekar)
TechBash family day is back! Kalahari room discounts expiring today (10/07) (TechBash Team)
Modern C# Techniques, Part 2: Value Records (Stephen Cleary)
Introducing the .NET MAUI Autocomplete Control (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
Welcome to the 2023 Imagine Cup (MS Student Developer Team)
Designing for foldable and large screens (Yuran Liu)

Web & Cloud Development

PhpStorm 2022.2.3 is now available (Brent Roose)
WebStorm 2022.3 EAP #2: Code Vision for JS and TS, Intention Action Preview, and Vue Improvements (David Watson)
Node.js Authentication With Twilio Verify (Alexander Godwin)
Blazor WASM Custom 404 Page on GH Pages (Justin Yoo)
Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit (Jake Siegel)
JavaScript Output (Robert Gravelle)
Node.js Architecture and Best Practices for Node.js Application Development (Tejas Kaneriya)
The New PWABuilder Report Card (Josh Sach)
Serverless September – In a Nutshell (Devanshi Joshi)
Introducing Twilio’s Go Helper Library (Gareth Paul Jones)
A Roadmap For Building A Business Chatbot (Devansh Bansal)
Is learning serverless really that hard? (Jeremy Daly)
What Is the Jamstack? (Leonardo Maldonado)
#ServerlessSeptember 29 – Code to Cloud with `azd` and Oct | `awesome-azd` Templates (Savannah Ostrowski)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v1.3 Supports Gravatar (‘Globally Recognized Avatar’) (David Ramel)

Visual Studio, Win32 & .NET

Visual Studio Code September 2022 (Visual Studio Code Team)
vcpkg September 2022 Release is Now Available: Celebrating 6 Years with Over 2000 Libraries! (Augustin Popa)
The Import Address Table is now write-protected, and what that means for rogue patching (Raymond Chen)
WinForms HTML & CSS Templates — Conditional Styling (Dmitry)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Jeff Bezos Says You Can Have a Job, a Career, or a Calling (and Your Calling is the Jackpot) and How To Practice Precision Q+A to Ask and Answer Questions Better (J.D. Meier)
DevSecOps on Azure – part6: Deploy securely to Azure resources in the Virtual Network (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Welcome To A New Part of Donald Knuth’s Magnum Opus (Sue Gee)
Unless you’re in the mafia, your company isn’t your family (Chris Heilmann)
Take advantage of Git rebase (Christian Couder)
What is Software Architecture? (Derek Comartin)
Broaden Your Influence by Adapting How You Listen (Nancy Duarte)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Prepare your Android Project for Android Gradle plugin 8.0 API changes (Wojtek Kalicinski, Boris Farber & Xavier Ducrohet)
HTC teases a new smaller Vive VR headset (Adi Robertson)
GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Dart (Eric Tooley)
5 ways to level up your game development skills (Jennifer Pyne)
Google Pixel Watch: Help by Google, health by Fitbit (Sandeep Waraich)
Partnering with GitHub on supply chain security for Dart packages (Michael Thomsen)

Screencasts & Videos

Develop Apps with Azure SQL Database for Free | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
AWS for the .NET Developer – Containers 101 (Isaac Levin)
GitHub Learning Journey Part 1: The state of application security (Keith Hoodlet & Sarah Khalife)
Working with gRPC | The Exploratory (Postman Team)
Who is StereoKit for? | One Dev Question (Nick Klingensmith)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Sonic Pi Live Coding Music Synth with Sam Aaron (Scott Hanselman)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 055 – DevOps 2022 with Chris Williams (David Isbitski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Key Agile team behaviors that show how successful you are as a Scrum Master | Ruta Hardikar (Vasco Duarte)
Your Daily Scrum: Who Manages People on a Scrum Team? (Ryan Ripley)
Rocket 406: For Better or for Worse (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The CSS Podcast 059: Container queries (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
UX Podcast #299 – Best practice with Rich Brophy (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Web Rush Episode 204: Wolves, Cats, and Dogs… and The Google Cloud Platform (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 068: Why Working Harder Does Not Work with the World’s Best Unconscious Beliefs Specialist – Tim Shurr (Kae Lynne Sapino)
Windows Weekly 797: Fish and Ferraris (Paul Thurrott)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 494 – A chat with Redhat’s Matt Hicks on his path from developer to CEO (Ritika Puri)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 532: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF (Gavin Henry)

Community & Events

Android Dev Summit ‘22: Coming to you, online and around the world! (Yasimine Evjen)
Meet the Splunktern: Kelsey King (Katia Ratkovich)
Statement from Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith on the Fifth Circuit DACA decision (Brad Smith)
Google Cloud Next, developer style (Jeana Jorgensen)
Your guide to endpoint management at Microsoft Ignite 2022 (Shravana Mukherjee)
Identity at Microsoft Ignite 2022 (Alex Weinert)

Database

Load Data Asynchronously to SQL Server via an API and Python (Levi Masonde)

PowerShell

Use the Azure Arc Managed Identity with Azure PowerShell (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25217 (Brandon LeBlanc)
The latest and greatest: meet Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro (Brian Rakowski)
Advancing medical and healthcare research through Microsoft technologies (David C. Rhew, MD)
Seattle mayor expresses concern about city tax revenue loss due to remote work (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3558 and The Morning Brew #3559 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #732 (Mary Lou)
.NET Annotated Monthly | October 2022 (Rachel Appel)
Code Maze Weekly #142 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 13, 2021 (#3358)

Posted on January 13, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

The Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering – Learn (Microsoft Learn)
Does the Language You Choose Change the Carbon Impact of Client UI Apps? (Scott Chamberlin)
Generate a GitHub Actions workflow with Visual Studio or the dotnet CLI (Damian Brady)
How to Become a Better Developer by Asking Questions (Steve Gordon)
Trust, Identity and AppContainer for Windows Apps (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

New Backstage feature: Kubernetes for Service owners (Matthew Clarke)
Make the page count of a 3D book visible using CSS custom properties (Michael Scharnagl)
How Azure.com uses Serverless Functions for Consumption-based utilization and reduced always-on electric footprint (Aaron Hogue)
gRPC & ASP.NET Core 5: Test gRPC endpoints with gRPCurl (Anthony Giretti)
How to Add Commas Between a List of Items Dynamically with CSS (Dave Seidman)
Node.js Mentorship Initiative: N-API Opportunity (A.J. Roberts)
How to Post a File to an Azure Function in 3 Minutes (Bryan Soltis)
Uploading a File to Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Go: Handling JSON in MySQL (Tiago Melo)
Define function overload types with TypeScript (Kent C. Dodds)
A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go (Ian Lance Taylor)
Go (golang) Error Handling – A Different Philosophy (Jeremy Clark)
Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy (Mike Rousos)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Getting Started with Infragistics Ultimate UI for Uno Platform in 5 Steps (Brian Lagunas)
Previewing XAML UIs In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
Customizable Scheduling Views with our Xamarin Calendar Control (Yana Kerpecheva)
Styling the Android bottom tabs animation behavior and font (Steven Thewissen)

Visual Studio & .NET

VS Code Java Project Explorer Gets Better (David Ramel)
Debugging Dependency Injection Service Registrations in .NET 5.0 (Adam Storr)
#Net5 – C#9 “records” and “deconstruction” super cool feature (Bruno Capuano)
Introducing the EfCore.SoftDeleteServices library to automate soft deletes (Jon P. Smith)
.NET Framework January Security and Quality Rollup Update (Tara Overfield)
Rethinking OSS Attribution In .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Introducing Cake Bridge Dependency Injection (Mattias Karlsson)
.NET January 2021 Updates – 5.0.2, 3.1.11, 2.1.24 (Rahul Bhandari)
Forms Processing API Tutorial: Recognize and Process a Form (Zac Cole)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to use GitLab for DevOps, version control, and more (Chrissie Buchanan)
January patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
Deploying to MongoDB with Octopus Deploy and Liquibase (Shawn Sesna)
Don’t Use Inverted Color Cues on Toggle Buttons (Anthony)
Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time (Johanna Rothman)
The Case for Codeless Testing (Karl Hughes)
Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 2: New Automation Features in Firefox Nightly (Maja Frydrychowicz)
How Can New Deep Learning Initiatives Overcome Challenges in Robotics? (Exxact Team)
How GitOps and the KRM make multi-cloud less scary. (Richard Seroter)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Own Your Crash Logs with PLCrashReporter: Part 3 (Thomas Moore)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Cilium, with Thomas Graf (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
Developer Tea – Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We’re Proven Wrong) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander & Sourabh Shirhatt)
Tinting Icon and Image Colors in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Building the Future: What’s New in the Mixed Reality Toolkit (Kevin Semple)
Asp.Net Monsters #200d: Conversations with Nik Molar (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
RunAs Radio – Disaster Recovery Strategies to Fight Ransomware with Dave Kawula (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 229 (Jason Bock)
The Changelog – What the web could be (in 2021 and beyond) (Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for January 2021 (Amanda)
Uno Platform Twitch Tuesdays (Uno Platform Team)
Meet the Splunktern: Cinthia Salazar (Katia Ratkovich)
Five best practices to get the most value from the Microsoft Partner Network (Dan Truax)
Our continuing support for Dreamers (Kent Walker)
3 Impactful Ways To Give Back In 2021 (Serena Edwards)
Pulumi: Upcoming Workshops and Events (Sophia Parafina)

Database

SQL SERVER – List All Dates Between Start and End Date (Pinal Dave)
Azure SQL Database named among the top 3 databases of 2020 (John ‘JG’ Chirapurath)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Connect Guru with Microsoft Teams for a Collaborative Wiki (MS Teams Team)

Miscellaneous

A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon (Reed Berkowitz)
The Lies that can Undermine Democracy (Martin Fowler)
Microsoft moves closer to running all of its own services on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.746 (20H2) to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
Want to teach your kids to code? Here are three apps that can help. (Mark Locklear)
Go read this report that uses GPS to prove Parler users stormed the Capitol (Mitchell Clark)
paint.net 4.2.15 alpha build 7683 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3147 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-13 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Joy of UX: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers (David Platt) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 23, 2020 (#3345)

Posted on December 23, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Uno Platform 3.4 – Maturing the supported control set (Uno Platform Team)
Avoid C# 9 Record Gotchas (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
MSGraphMailbag – Use Graph Explorer Like a Professional (Brian T. Jackett)
MicroFrontends With Blazor WebAssembly (Wael Kdouh)
Hacky Holidays! (Guy Merin) – Have some fun with Surface Duo this holiday season.

Web & Cloud Development

Five more free services now available in the Azure free account (Azure Team)
Hot Module Replacement in Angular and The Kendo UI Forms Guide (Alyssa Nicoll)
DS Server: Merging Documents using the DocumentProcessing Web API in Angular (Bjoern Meyer)
Break a forEach Loop with JavaScript (David Walsh)
Everything About Callback Functions in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
CSS Snapshot 2020 Published (fantasai)
Connecting to OData Services with FlexGrid for Blazor (Ashwin Saxena)
What’s New in Angular 12 (Michelle Sebek)
How to Create a Dynamic Form Builder in Blazor (Saravanan G.)
Learn Azure Sentinel on Microsoft Learn (Thomas Maurer)
HTTP keep-alive is on by default in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
Announcing the Backstage Stability Index (Patrik Oldsberg)
What is the Exxact System Toolkit (ExSTK)? (Exxact Team)
Learn to build no-code apps quickly to simplify your work (Jennifer Cadence)
TensorFlow Quantum is an Open Source Stack that Show Us how the Future of Quantum and Machine… (Jesus Rodriguez)
Node v15.5.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
Calling REST API service using JSON object with fixed order of elements (Tareq Saifi)
Migrating to the Cloud: 6 Strategies for Future Success (Piet van Dongen)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Humanising Grids In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
Introducing My Cadence for iOS – a Simple Cadence Sensor Display (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 4: Entity Framework Core integration (Thomas Levesque)
Prettier your CSharp with dotnet-format and lint-staged (Johnny Reilly)

Design, Methodology & Testing

John Jung on leaning into the weirdness of tech leadership (Pluralsight)
What the financial crash can teach us about open source (Colin Eberhardt)
Let’s talk about securing open source projects (Hauwa Otori)
Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework – Overview (Michael Janke)
Git clone: a data-driven study on cloning behaviors (Solmaz Abbaspoursani)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Imager update (Gordon Hollingworth)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hide Flyout Items and Tabs in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 223 (Jason Bock)
Software Defined Talk Episode 277: This episode was way better than I expected (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
What is Wrong with UX Podcast – Designing for Complex Products (Laura Klein & Kate Rutter)

Community & Events

Take the KendoReact Team’s Early Web Cheese Challenge! (TJ VanToll)
Resources for the SQL Server and Azure Data community (SQL Server Team)
Microsoft Life – Joseph Sefair: “I teach my kids to cook to make sure they don’t forget where they come from.” (Gretchen Garland)
Adobe: Empowering Our Developer Community in 2021 (Ingo Eichel)
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range for the Web (Xueyuan Jia)

Database

Using collect_database_name with SQL Server Extended Events (Aaron Bertrand)
Using SQL Server as a Rebus Transport (Mark Heath)
SQL SERVER – Fill Factor – Instance Level or Index Level (Pinal Dave)
How to Batch Updates A Few Thousand Rows at a Time (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

Taking your PowerShell prompt to the next level with Windows Terminal and Oh my Posh 3 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

These breakthroughs will make 2021 better than 2020 (Bill Gates)
How to launch a tech career in 2020 (Elise Hollowed)
Twitter will make Joe Biden’s @POTUS account start with zero followers (Jacob Kastrenakes)
Can vaccinated people still transmit COVID-19? The answer is key for herd immunity, research finds (Kellie Schmitt)

More Link Collections

.NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-23 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Call to Adventure (Brotherwise Games) – Referral Link

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