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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 – September 22, 2021 (#3522)

Posted on September 22, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Welcome to the 20th anniversary of the Imagine Cup (MS Student Developer Team)
Adding cross cutting concerns to a GraphQL service (Nigel Sampson)
ASP.NET Core 6: Streaming JSON responses with IAsyncEnumerable, example with Angular (Anthony Giretti)
SourceGear Bridge preview: Swift with .NET in Xcode (Eric Sink)

Web & Cloud Development

Three New Next.js Features and How to Use Them (Ali Spittel)
Is Accessing Querystring Values in Azure Functions Hard? (Adam Storr)
Enhance local development experience using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code (Abhishek Gupta)
Authentication Support in Syncfusion Blazor Template Studio: A Complete Guide (Kalirajan Ganesan)
Top Tips for Vue 3 Development (Kevin Ashley)
React Dashboard Tutorial—How To Build an Interactive Dashboard (Thomas Findlay)
Comparing WebApplicationBuilder to the Generic Host: Exploring .NET Core 6 – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)
GraphQL Can’t REST (Courier)
Determining OS Platform Version (Eric Lawrence)
V8 release v9.5 (Ingvar Stepanyan)
Practical API Design Using gRPC at Netflix (Vasco Veloso)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 10.0: File Scoped Namespaces – Get More Space For Your Code (Thomas Claudius Huber)
Interesting Technology Tips – Vol. 1 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introducing Google Cloud Platform integration for Octopus Deploy (Andreia Virmond)
Advanced Installer 18.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
Discovering YouTrack: Dashboards (Elena Pishkova)
3 trends shaping identity as the center of modern security (Emma Jones)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Improved Google Play Console user management: access requests, permission groups, and more (Mike Yerou)
Getting Started With Python on Hardware (Craig Couden)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

10 Podcasts That Every Leader Should Have In Their Listening Queue (Mariya Harris)
AzureFunBytes Episode 56 – Secretless Applications with @ChristosMatskas (Jay Gordon)
DevOps Lab | Infra as Code in Action: Protect production resources | Ep 3 of 4-episode series | The DevOps Lab (April Edwards & Chris Maneu)
Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Explore Oracle Labs Australia with Founder & Director Cristina Cifuentes (Bob Rhubart)
Advocate For Yourself – Adventures in .NET 087 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 427 | Two More Epic Azure Vulnerabilities (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Asp.Net Monsters #223 – Processing CSV files in C# (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
DBAle 36: The triple threat-happiness, gratitude, and beer (Chris Unwin & Chris Kerswell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 300 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

Learn Kubernetes with Google: Join us live on October 6! (María Cruz)
The “Too many white dudes” problem in software (George Stocker)
Why I love Polywork as a developer advocate — and it’s not for the reason you think (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Maker Spotlight: Megan Colby and Maker Spotlight: Nancy Aycock (Jennifer Blakeslee)

Database

Creating a table using the SQL SELECT INTO clause – Part 1 (Sergey Gigoyan)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Announcing the Microsoft Teams Vaccination Attestation Application (Rob Garrett)
Microsoft Teams – Empowering Collaboration (Surya Pammi)
Viva Connections public preview is now available! (Brad McCabe)

PowerShell

#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert. (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

Power Automate Desktop September 2021 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
Introduction to PyTorch Lightning (Exxact Team)
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used (Cory Doctorow)
How to end the COVID crisis (Bill Gates)
Deno 1.14 Improves Web Crypto Support (Ian Elliot)
6 Undeniable Benefits of Low-Code App Development (Jesse Sumrak)
Windows 11 PC Health Check app is now available for everyone (Kunal Chowdhury)
Dependency Injection with Kotlin and Koin (Matthew Casperson)

More Link Collections

.NET App Developer Links – 2021-09-22 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – September 7, 2021 (#3511)

Posted on September 7, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Travel Planner dual-screen sample app (Raymond Liu)
Staged Rollouts & Phased Release on Google Play and App Store Connect (James Montemagno)
Technology & Friends – Sam Basu on NET MAUI (David Giard)
Microsoft PowerToys 0.45.0 released (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web & Cloud Development

Custom Model Binding in ASP.NET 6.0 Minimal APIs (Ben Foster)
Azure Identity 301 – ChainedTokenCredential (Jon Gallant)
What’s Next: WebStorm 2021.3 Roadmap (Aleksandra Aganezova)
Converting DOCX Form Fields to Smart HTML Forms (Bjoern Meyer)
Using Azure security groups in ASP.NET Core with an Azure B2C Identity Provider (Damien Bowden)
Building a Micro Web API with Azure Functions and SQLite (Jeremy Morgan)
Analyzing FHIR data with Azure Synapse Analytics (Linishya Vaz)
jQuery UI 1.13.0-rc.2 released (Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek)
Manually Parsing a Json String Using System.Text.Json (Paul Michaels)
Text Preprocessing Methods for Deep Learning (Exxact Team)
PhpStorm 2021.2.2 Preview (Roman Pronskiy)
Simple Steps to Validate Data in a JavaScript Spreadsheet (Shanmugaraja K)
Debugging System.FormatException when launching ASP.NET Core (Thomas Ardal)
Build a REST-Based Application with Node.js, Express and Couchbase (Tyler Mitchell)
How to write a custom ESLint rule (Benedict Quinn)
Chrome Browser Extensions Study Reveals Performance Impact of Popular Extensions (Bruno Couriol)
Concerns, Callbacks, and Case Statements, Oh My! (Casey Ellett)
Golang: A Beginner’ Guide To Getting Started (Gabriel Tanner)
Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web (Berwyn Powell)
V8 release v9.4 (Ingvar Stepanyan)
Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 1: Using Protobuf FieldMask (Alex Borysov & Ricky Gardiner)
Build a WebAssembly App with Rust (Jack Wallen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Xamarin.Essentials 1.7 with New Web Authenticator Options and .NET MAUI Essentials (Almir Vuk)
Validation Rules for Email in Xamarin Forms (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

Multiplatform AvaloniaUI .NET Framework Programming Basic Concepts in Easy Samples (Nick Polyak)
Launching Visual Studio Code cleanly from a .NET Application (Rick Strahl)
C# Namespace Declarations (Steve Fenton)
Writing Logs to SQL Server Using NLog (Johnson Towoju)
MSVC C++20 and the /std:c++20 Switch (Daniel Griffing)
Support for Twitter API v2 Retweets endpoint added to Social Opinion API (Jamie Maguire)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Bind the SSL Certificate During the Upgrade Process (Alex Marin)
A Roundup Of Data-Driven Trello Features (Britt Joiner)
How can you stay ahead of the curve as a developer? (Helen Scott)
Measuring User Experience in Modern Applications and Infrastructure (Sagar Nangare)
The code review struggle is real. Here’s what you need to know (Valerie Silverthorne)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova Electron 3.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4 (Ben Stone)
Windows Subsystem for Android Arrives in the Microsoft Store (Paul Thurrott)
Analysing Unity projects using NDepend v2021.1 (Davide Zordan)
One thing you’ll probably leave out of your game’s post-mortem, but shouldn’t (Marie-Christine Babin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

MS Dev Show – Artificial Nose with Benjamin Cabe (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – TypeScripts Strict Explained (Wes Bos)
OnPodcast Episode 48: Windows 11 launches October 5, MSFT breaks Windows 11, 9/22 Surface event (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
Merge Conflict 270: M1 on the road, phased release, new SQLite-net, and .NET MAUI ready libraries (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Revision Path – Zariah Cameron (Maurice Cherry)
Eliminate data silos with NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob Storage | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Yuan Zheng)
Konstantin Dinev on Multi-Team DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 157 (Jeffrey Palermo)
InfoQ Podcast: Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Even Better (Diana Larsen, Esther Derby & David Horowitz)
The Amp Hour #556 – Firmware for Hardware Engineers with Phillip Johnston (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
UI Breakfast Episode 221: Behavioral Economics with Kristen Berman (Jane Portman)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 295 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #109: Serverless for Newbies with Emily Shea (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
Azure Podcast Episode 392 – SQL Managed Instances (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

Our favorite community events beyond Redgate (Eleanor Hughes)
F# Software Foundation: 2021 Board of Trustees Election (Reed Copsey, Jr.)
Celebrating some of the best indie games (Patricia Correa)
EVENT: Microsoft Ignite 2021 – November 2-4, 2021 (Kurt Shintaku)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Nancy (MS Student Developer Team)
Webinar: IntelliJ IDEA + Space = Complete Environment for Collaborative Software Development (Valerie Andrianova)

Database

SQL SERVER – Deny Drop Permission for a Table and SQL SERVER – Running SQL Agent Job After Completing Another Job (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Manual Intervention Steps in Azure Logic apps with MS Teams (John Kilmister)

Miscellaneous

Windows 11: Here’s how to get Microsoft’s free operating system update (Liam Tung)
paint.net 4.3 alpha (build 7917) and paint.net 4.3 alpha (build 7918) (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3309 and The Morning Brew #3310 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 319 – 5th Sep 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
F# Weekly #36, 2021 – Sutil REPL, FSSF Election, int array and Myriad (Sergey Tihon)
C# Digest Issue #379 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Code Maze Weekly #91 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Young Coder’s Best of Summer 2021 (Matthew MacDonald)
Reading Notes #482 (Frank Boucher)
The Overflow #89: Passwords are dead! (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Friday Five: Office 365 Tips, Azure ML Pipelines! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Reading List 281 (Bruce Lawson)
C++ Annotated August 2021: Practical Modules, C++20 Attribute to Help with EBO, Valgrind, Intel Compiler, and CLion News (Anastasia Kazakova)

The Geek Shelf

Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Miri Rodriguez) – Referral Link

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