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Dew Drop – February 28, 2022 (#3631)

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

Top Links

.NET GitHub Actions (David Pine)
New Azure for Operators solutions and services built for the future of telecommunications (Jason Zander)
PyTorch-DirectML: Preview Release 2 (Adele Parsons)
Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI iOS app in Azure DevOps (Andreas Nesheim)
Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 182 – Chris Patterson on Messaging systems with MassTransit (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

Advanced techniques around ASP.NET Core Users and their claims (Jon P Smith)
New to Azure Stack HCI? Check out Microsoft Learn! (Lisa Clark)
Getting started with Azure Container Apps (Michael Ridland)
Custom and System Properties in Azure Service Bus Messages using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus (Paul Michaels)
Azure Data Explorer Articles and Videos (David Giard)
How To Trap Focus in a Modal in Vue 3 (Thomas Findlay)
#30DaysOfPWA #12 – Caching Your App Data (Aaron Gustafson)
#30DaysOfPWA #13 – Synchronizing App Data in the Background and #30DaysOfPWA #14 – Notifying Users Of Updates (Maxim Salnikov)
ESLint v8.10.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
How To Capture Data from a Custom Events in Bot Framework Composer (Jamie Maguire)
Announcing SpaacedOut Gem Jekyll Theme v1.3.x (Jason Gaylord)
Microsoft Edge could get a hub to help you organize your PWAs (Kevin Okemwa)
Why and How to Use Webpack and Babel with Vanilla JS (Nishani Dissanayake)
Customize Auth0 Universal Login with Auth0 CLI (Will Johnson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Properly Manage Background Tasks in Xamarin Forms (Damien Tohin Doumer Kake)
Create a Hyperlink UI in .NET MAUI Preview 13 (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
Configuration in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json) (James Montemagno)
With Windows App SDK Update Coming, Microsoft Lauds Growing Ecosystem (David Ramel)
Accelerator keys for ContentDialog Buttons (Fons Sonnemans)
Advanced Databinding Part 4 – Bind . (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 11 is Coming! 5 Features that will Blow your Mind (Dotnetsafer)
Global using Directive in C# 10 (Mahesh Chand)
How can I monitor changes to the reference count of a C++/WinRT object? (Raymond Chen)
Adding Attachments to Adobe PDF Documents using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Creating a VS Code Extension (Bruno Sonnino)
Differences Between != And Is Not Operators in C# and DateTime Format In C# (Code Maze)
Global usings in C# 10 (Gunnar Peipman)
What’s new with C# 11? (Maourice Gonzalez)
Enabling High-Quality Code in .NET (Milan Milanović)
Comparing objects with disparate members in Fluent Assertions (Dennis Doomen)
PriorityQueue In .NET 6 (Vicente Gerardo Guzman Lucio)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Choose to Remember the Beauty in Life (J.D. Meier)
Performance optimizations in production (Oren Eini)
What is UI design? And why is it important? (Sketch Team)
Why the Bug Tracker (Ted Neward)
Do you work on interesting problems? (Al Tenhundfeld)
A Microsoft exec says tech, not people, makes employees really happy (Chris Matyszczyk)
Feeling Lost? Here’s A Roundup Of 7 Trello Resources To Bring Clarity To Your Boards (Sam Milbrath)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Emoji Only Text Entry on Android (j2inet)
Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size (Simon Schiller)
Arduino Fan Builds the World’s Smallest Space Invaders Game (David Cassel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Leading Beyond Change – Leadership for New Ways of Working (Audree Tara Sahota & Michael K. Sahota)
Merge Conflict 295: Two ways to do the same thing (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to help a “hands-off” PO to engage more with the Scrum team | Usman Kotwal and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to adapt to a new Scrum team without pushing them | Lorna Mason & Jon Lawrence (Vasco Duarte)
On .NET: ASP.NET Core in .NET 7 Preview 1 – What you need to know (James Montemagno & Dan Roth)
The AI Show: Ep 52 | Analyze unstructured docs and more with Azure Form Recognizer (Ayşegül & Vinod Kurpad)
Coding After Work – RavenDB: a really boring database! with Dejan Miličić (Jessica Engstrom & Jimmy Engstrom)
Webinar: Source Generators with Stefan Polz (Andrea Brezinova)
PPP 348 | How to Work Less Hours and Get More Done, with author Joe Sanok (Andy Kaufman)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 16 : Music Tech Pioneers: Propellerhead : ReCycle to Reason ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Ernst Nathorst-Böös)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Build Software Faster with These Productivity APIs (Avinash Choudhary)
The Changelog – Making the command line glamorous (Toby Padilla, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Azure Podcast Episode 413 – Thinking Cloud Native (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 029 – Real World CDK with Matt Coulter (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #579 – ADC Chip Design with Anthony Wall (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 345 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #126: Teaching What You Learn with Tomasz Łakomy (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
AGL 249: Catching up with Steve Yacovelli (John Rouda)
Windows Weekly 765: Squig Glies (Paul Thurrott)
8 Bits with Jess Garson! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)

Community & Events

dotNetDave Rocks The Philly Code Camp 2022 and dotNetDave Supports Ukraine! (David McCarter)
Why Swift Creator Chris Lattner Stepped Down From Its Core Team This Week (EditorDavid)
Celebrating 10 years of Raspberry Pi with a new museum exhibition (Matt Richardson)
Gender Differences In Code Contributions (Sue Gee)
Code.Org Launches Dance Party (Kay Ewbank)
Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer and Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer (Spotify Engineering)

Database

SQL Managed Instance closing the gap on SQL Server application compatibility – Part 2 (Niko Neugebauer)
SQL SERVER – Find Missing Identity Values (Pinal Dave)
The path forward for SQL Server analytics (SQL Server Team)
RavenDB: Domain Modeling and Data Persistency (Oren Eini)
An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB (Phil Factor)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2022 (Microsoft Teams Team)
CLI for Microsoft 365 v5.0 (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

Surface Duo 2 gets touch, animation and camera improvements with new Feb update (Kareem Anderson)
M1 Mac virtualization: Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Fusion (Michael Niehaus)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3419 (Chris Alcock)
Top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2022.25.02 are here! (April Edwards)
Code Maze Weekly #112 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Wolf Report – February 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Windows news recap: Notepad RichEdit enhancements, WhatsApp testing Message Reactions, and more (Jack Wilkinson)
F# Weekly #9, 2022 – Stop Russian aggression against Ukraine! (Sergey Tihon)
C# Digest Issue #404 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Friday Five: GitHub Codespaces, Android Emulator, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The Overflow #114: Work estimates that account for friction, continual learning, and the coders inspired by Tumblr (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – September 1, 2020 (#3266)

Posted on September 1, 2020 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Ionic + Angular: Powering the App store and the web (Mike Hartington)
Big Plans for Big Data and .NET for Spark (Jeremy Likness)
Yahtzee in Blazor WebAssembly Part 1: The C# Model (Matthew Jones)
App Trimming in .NET 5 (Sam Spencer)
Introducing the Half type! (Prashanth Govindarajan)

Web & Cloud Development

Inject a service into a System.Text.Json converter (Thomas Levesque)
Successful Submission in React Hook Form (Carl Rippon)
Using Dotnet CLI To Setup ASP.NET CORE Solution And Run With Tye (Adam Storr)
Serilog In ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Anup Hosur)
Using Digital Signatures to check integrity of cipher texts in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (Damien Bowden)
An Interesting Explanation of async/await in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
The 20 RXJS Operators You Absolutely Need To Know (Joe Eames)
Vue 3: To Vuex or Not to Vuex (Shawn Wildermuth)
Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core (Vladimir Pecanac)
ESLint v7.8.0 released (ESLint Team)
The Current State of Mock APIs Using Postman and A Diverse API Toolbox is the Future (Kin Lane)
Deploying .NET Core to Heroku (Andrew Robilliard)
Why My Blazor Course Will Be FREE for Everyone (Claudio Bernasconi)
Why Blazor Wasm is the Best Choice for API Integration (David Grace)
Accelerated Automatic Differentiation with JAX: How Does it Stack Up Against Autograd, TensorFlow, and PyTorch? (Exxact Team)
Patient Identity Management the IHE way (John Moehrke)
How To Do More With Vue Router (Timi Omoyeni)
Debugging with Fiddler Everywhere: Resolving an Error… in Production (Rob Lauer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Using Huawei Mobile Services with Xamarin (John Thiriet)
Xamarin Card Scan Plugin (Rendy Del Rosario)
Beautiful WebAssembly Charts courtesy of Syncfusion and Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Translating NHibernate LINQ query to SQL (Gunnar Peipman)
Microsoft Survey: Developers Held Back by Lack of ‘Native AOT’ in .NET Core (David Ramel)
Easy Steps to Export HTML Tables to an Excel Worksheet in C# (Johnson Manohar)
C# preprocessor directive symbols from the dotnet build command line via DefineConstants (Mike Hadlow)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Waterfall vs. agile (Kevin Miller & Tommy van Schaik)
How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams (Alexandra Wei)
How To Use Threat Modeling to Explore Threats and Countermeasures (JD Meier)
Microsoft Security: How to cultivate a diverse cybersecurity team (Jim Flack)
Properties for all (Mark Seemann)
Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave (Rachel Howard)
Reaping the True Value of Exploratory Testing (Rajini Padmanaban)
GitHub Checks API Plugin Project – Coding Phase 3 (Xiong Kezhi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Instant Motion Tracking with MediaPipe (Vikram Sharma, Jianing Wei & Tyler Mullen)
Multi-modal User Input for Spatial Computing (James Ashley)
Flutter: Extending State‹T› (Shawn Blais)
Avoiding the 5 most common (and costly) mistakes guaranteed to derail your game (Vince Caruana)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Yan Cui on Serverless, including Orchestration/Choreography, Distributed Tracing, & more (Yan Cui)
Asp.Net Monsters #180: SQL Profiling with Azure Data Studio (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
The Maintainers: Nicholas Blumhardt, Autofac and Serilog (Shawn Wildermuth)
Establish cloud governance using Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Meta Cast Episode 174 – The Hard Stuff, Part 2 – Tell Your Boss They Are Wrong (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Why Are We Still Talking about SOLID? (Michael Szul)
The .NET Docs Show – Hacking DateTime bugs in PROD with Jon Skeet (.NET Docs Team)
Derek Comartin on Migrating to .NET Core – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 104 (Jeffrey Palermo)
AGL 171: Amplify your Job Search with Jeffrey Ton (John Rouda)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 94 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
What’s New with Form Recognizer | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – The tiny open-source pillar holding up the entire internet (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
The 6 Figure Developer #158 – Mo Hampton: Giving Back to Tech without Burnout (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Announcing New Node.js Mentorship Opportunity (A.A. Sobaki)
Philly.NET Meetup – Using Teams to run philly.NET (Bill Wolff)
.NET Foundation July/August 2020 Update (Claire Novotny)
Understanding cloud transformation and resiliency: a conversation with EY (Michelle Unger)

Database

SQL Server – Bulk Deletes Revisited (Bonnie DeWitt)
Email an Execution Plan – SQL in Sixty Seconds #114 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2020 (MS Teams Team)
Using Microsoft Lists in Teams Channels (Tony Redmond)

PowerShell

NetNeighbor Watch: The PowerShell Alternative To Arpwatch (Nick Richardson)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3059 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-09-01 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems (Michael L. Perry) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – October 28, 2019 (#3059)

Posted on October 28, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing the Azure Boards app for Microsoft Teams (Karthik RG)
Be a Technology Tourist (Scott Hanselman)
Angular Tools You Should be Aware Of (Santosh Yadav)
Let’s use XAML Island on WPF app without changing C# code behind (Kazuki Ota)
Announcing TypeScript 3.7 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 231 – Top three things for Azure developers to watch at Microsoft Ignite 2019 and Tip 232 – Assess and migrate web apps to Azure with Azure Migrate (Michael Crump)
Integrating Actions into the Window in Telerik UI for Blazor (Peter Vogel)
ASP.NET Core Security, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure: Functions (Jimmy Bogard)
Securing a Web API using multiple token servers (Damien Bowden)
When to use the subscribe method or async pipe in Angular? (Dhananjay Kumar)
10 Good Practices for Building and Maintaining Large Vue.js Projects (Nada Rifki)
.NET Core 3.0 on Lambda with AWS Lambda’s Custom Runtime (Norm Johanson)
Lessons learned using Docker for development and testing on Windows (Octopus Deploy)
Bringing your Blazor apps to the Desktop with ElectronNET.Blazor (Robert McLaws)
Developing a Microsoft .NET Core Web API application with Aurora Database using CloudFormation (Siva Ramani)
Integrating Google APIs with Angular (Vojtech Mašek)
25 Experts Share Their Tips for building Scalable Web Application (Hardik Shah)
ESLint v6.6.0 released (ESLint Team)
Learn TypeScript Data Types – From Zero to Hero (Jonathan Sexton)
GRIT: a Protocol for Distributed Transactions across Microservices (Gene Zhang, Jung-Sang Ahn, Kun Ren & Mohammad Roohitavaf)
Optimizing Web Applications with OData $Select (Hassan Habib)
Postman Collections As API Contracts (Kin Lane)
Creating a Random Post Link with the Ghost SDK and Content API (Matthew Jones)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Build Great Xamarin Apps with App Center (Ela Malani)
Restructuring everything: FancyToDoList with Xamarin.Forms (Luis Matos)
50 Reasons to Use Uno Platform for Your Next Project (Uno Platform Admin)
Testing ViewModels using INotifyPropertyChanged verifier (Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk)

Visual Studio & .NET

ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 Starts Early Access Program! and Rider 2019.3 Early Access Program is Open! (Alexander Kurakin)
Update Visual Studio for Mac for an improved Unity experience! (John Miller)
.NET Framework October 2019 Cumulative Updates Windows 10 version 1903 and Windows 10 version 1909 (Tara Overfield)
Simplifying the Cake global tool bootstrapper scripts with .NET Core 3 local tools (Andrew Lock)
Building .NET Core 3 under a Linux TeamCity Agent (Derek Comartin)
Options for .NET’s versioning issues (Jon Skeet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Kanban Way: How To Visualize Progress And Data In Trello (Sonya Siderova)
Integrate your product roadmap to Azure Boards (Alessandro Segala)
How to Configure CI/CD in AzureDevOps (Joydip Kanjilal)
Transfer Learning Made Easy: Coding a Powerful Technique (Exxact Team)
Composite command pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
How testing helps – a real world example (Matt Lacey)
Why Devs (Should) Understand Estimates (Steve Fenton)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter App State Management (Bharghav Kumar)
Useful List methods in Dart (Darshan Kawar)
More Scene Understanding – “Put This on the Big Table” (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – Windows 10, Surface Gear, .NET 3.0, and More! (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Technology & Friends – Jeremy Likness on Blazor (David Giard)
Revision Path 318: Dee Tuck (Maurice Cherry)
Hanselminutes – First Time Coders with Michelle Sun (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict 173: RISC Is Good (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – Interview with Anil Dash (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Microsoft Graph | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Learn all about Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), Part 1 | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
NFC is Magic | Xamarin Developer Summit (Sean Sparkman)
Light up Xamarin Apps with ChatBots | Xamarin Developer Summit (Sam Basu)
Coding Blocks Podcast – DevOps: Job Title or Job Responsibility? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Rocket 250: A Colossal Flip-Up (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
Continuous Delivery & Release Management | DevOps for Mobile | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, James Montemagno & AbelSquidHead)
Bot Framework + IBM Watson #7: Handling Emotion in Your Chatbot and Bot Framework + IBM Watson #8: Responding to Emotion in Your Chatbot (Michael Szul)
Developer on Fire Episode 447 | Samantha Campbell – Community-Focused (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #464 – KonnectorPanik (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Ladybug Podcast – Shopify & E-Commerce (Emma Wedekind, Kelly Vaughn & Ali Spittel)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 105 (Jason Bock)
Shayne Boyer on the Landscape of Containers and Cloud-Native – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 60 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Serverless Chats Episode #20: The Serverless Journey of Lego with Sheen Brisals (Jeremy Daly)
Yet Another Podcast – Jon Galloway! (Jesse Liberty)
AGL 127: Leading with Confidence and Overcoming Fear (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Philly .NET January Meetup – Container Orchestration for .NET Developers (Bill Wolff)
25 Awesome Things To Do In Philly, October 28 – November 3 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

Simulating ON DELETE CASCADE in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – Identifying Query Generating Malicious Wait Type and SQL SERVER – Getting Second Row from Table (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

The Microsoft Teams Guide to Ignite 2019 (Diaundra Jones)

Miscellaneous

Vapor – Swift Server-Side Development (Mike James)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2860 and The Morning Brew #2861 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-25 and .NET App Developer Links – 2019-10-28 (Dan Rigby)
Double Shot #2459 and Double Shot #2460 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: What we know about MSIX AppAttach, Azure Sphere Remote Sensing Car, and more! (MVP Award Team)
Reading Notes #398 (Frank Boucher)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.25 (Sasha Rosenbaum)
Collective #560 (Pedro Botelho)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #282 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #43, 2019 – New Rider EAP and F# eXchange CFP (Sergey Tihon)
GameDev News – October 25, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Idiomatic Redux, Typescript’s 3.7 beta features, NgRx essentials & more ()

The Geek Shelf

Angular Development with Typescript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev)

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