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Dew Drop – July 29, 2022 (#3733)

Posted on July 29, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 16 (Sydney Smith)
Template Studio 5.2 for WinUI C# is now available (Gabby Bilka)
Playing video with .NET MAUI (David Britch)
Web Rush Episode 194: Building apps for Teams with Waldek Mastykarz (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Drag and drop library for Jetpack Compose (Joy Liu)

Web & Cloud Development

Node.js: creating ESM-based shell scripts for Unix and Windows (Axel Rauschmayer)
Build a Svelte App that Uses the National Parks Service API to Plan Your Perfect Trip (Ashley Boucher)
Using Document Viewer Collaboration Features in Angular (Bjoern Meyer)
Registering an Application in Azure AD (David Giard)
TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 Beta Releases Add ESM for Node.js and Better Type Inference (Dylan Schiemann)
The Evolution of Asynchronous Data Fetching in JavaScript (Ifeoma Imoh)
Securing Web APIs with Azure AD: Designing Authentication Schemes (Jimmy Bogard)
Part 2 | Angular (v14) JWT Access Token Authentication & Refresh Token (Naveen Bommidi)
Exploring Communication of Rate Limits in ASP.NET Core With Rate Limit Headers (Tomasz Pęczek)
JavaScript code answer (Rob Miles)
Launch Your Usage-Based Pricing Model with Metronome and Postman (Michael Coughlin)
What is Twilio Live? (Donal Toomey)
How To Evaluate Then Improve a Website’s Network Performance (Eve Turzillo)
Testable Frontend: The Good, The Bad And The Flaky (Noam Rosenthal)
.finally understanding the promise chain (Jaime Jones)
GoLand 2022.2 Is Here (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
Electron and the V8 Memory Cage (Jeremy Rose)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Creating an Organizational Chart Using the WPF Diagram Control: An Overview (Prakash Perumal)
View PDF Annotations as a List and Navigate Using Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)
Background Work in Xamarin.Forms. Part #2 — Xamarin.iOS (Bohdan Benetskyi)

Visual Studio & .NET

Microsoft Tests Tutorials Inside Visual Studio, Starting with Blazor (David Ramel)
5 stunning open-source C# projects (Jakub Chodounsky)
Singleton Design Pattern in C# .NET Core – Creational Design Pattern (Sanjay)
Logging Source Code Generators (Steven Giesel)
Microsoft to End Support for .NET Core 3.1 in December 2022 (Edin Kapić)

Design, Methodology & Testing

CQRS facts and myths explained (Oskar Dudycz)
Top 18 DevOps Trends to Watch Out for in 2022 and Beyond and 16 Software Development Tools: Key to Enhanced Productivity and Innovation and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline Examples: Improve the Development Churn (Hiren Dhaduk)
How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes (LeadingAgile)
Builder and Gardener Mindsets (Dimitri Glazkov)
Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors (Klint Finley)
Measurable and meaningful skill levels for developers (Matt Van Itallie)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

AppCode 2022.2 Release Candidate Is Here! (Anastasia Kazakova)
Understanding Unity’s serialization language, YAML (Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo)
AAD Login HoloLens2 – MRTK3 Update (Pete D.)

Screencasts & Videos

Customize your chat view in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)

Podcasts

.NET Core Podcast – Our Summer Break – 2022 (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Failing Safely with Ramón Huidobro (Scott Hanselman)
Async Angular Testing and Introducing AG Charts – Adventures in Angular 352 (Charles Max Wood)
The Intersection of Data and DevOps – Adventures in DevOps 124 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Avoiding Shame And Guilt In Retrospectives, with The Retrospective From The Future | Miguel Moro (Vasco Duarte)
Rocket 396: RIP Instagram (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
Azure Podcast Episode 432 – App Config Service (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 468 – San Francisco? More like San Francisgo (Eira May)
UX Podcast #294 – Sitemaps (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Windows Weekly 787: No Code? Faux Code (Paul Thurrott)
UI Breakfast Episode 245: Engaging In-product Experiences (Pulkit Agrawal & Jane Portman)
Software Defined Talk Episode 370: In the long run… (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Twenty Plus Years of Blogging (Shawn Wildermuth)
Customer Success at Architect (Christopher Jones)
Join us at the first Microsoft Power Platform Conference Sept 20-22 (Stephen Siciliano)
Maker Spotlight: Davide Nejoumi (Jennifer Blakeslee)
GitHub Sponsors available in 30 new regions (Jessica Lord)
How to get a Microsoft Certification for Free as a Student. (Pikachu⚡)

Database

Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022 (Mirek Sztajno)
Explore Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra’s new features (Theo van Kraay)
In Praise Of SQLite (Nikos Vaggalis)
Basic SQL DELETE Statement with Examples (Jim Evans)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2022 (Holly Lehman)

PowerShell

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10, version 22H2 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25169 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.440 and 22622.440 and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.317 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 3: Addressing modes (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3521 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Links 29 Jul 2022 (Malcolm Jack)
Collective #722 (Mary Lou)
Red Hat Developer roundup: Best of July 2022 (Heiker Medina)
The Wolf Report – July 29th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Code Maze Weekly #132 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 2, 2022 (#3675)

Posted on May 2, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

v5.0 Release of Windows Template Studio (Mike Battista)
Bringing code navigation to GitHub communities (Patrick Thomson)
The Download: ZX Spectrum Anniversary, GitHub Desktop 3.0, Classic Mac in Your Browser and More (Christina Warren)
Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Release (Service Fabric Team)
Visual Studio Toolbox – .NET Community Toolkit (Robert Green & James Montemagno)
Win2D-MazeGame Sample on GitHub (Microsoft Open Source)

Web & Cloud Development

Use the Query String to pass an array of selected values between Blazor Pages (Jon Hilton)
.NET 6 on AWS Lambda, Quick Demos (Bryan Hogan)
Microsoft Touts IntelliJ IDE from JetBrains for Azure Development (David Ramel)
Introduction to Google Charts With Angular and ASP.NET Core Web API and How to Add Multiple POST Actions in ASP.NET Core Web API (Code Maze)
Implement an OpenIddict identity provider using ASP.NET Core Identity with Keycloak federation (Damien Bowden)
Building a REST API With Feathers.js and SQLite (Ekekenta Odionyenfe)
Angular Basics: Angular Templates Overview (John Au-Yeung)
Let’s not forget that JQuery is Ta’veren (John Papa)
Introduction to Azure Chaos Studio (Paul Michaels)
What Is Angular Change Detection & Change Detection Strategies (Svetloslav Novoselski)
State Management in Angular Using NGXS – Part 2 (William Juan)
How the TypeScript Pick Type works (Johnny Simpson)
Kicking off #30DaysOfSWA (Nitya Narasimhan)
GraphQL APIs: Greater Flexibility Breeds New Security Woes (Peter Klimek)

Visual Studio & .NET

Working with Files in C# 10 Course (Jason Roberts)
ReSharper and Rider 2022.1.1 bug fixes have landed (Asia Rudenko)
Set C# Language Version for All the Projects in a Solution (Bartosz Jarmuż)
A Demo On .NET 6 API Sending Email Using SendGrid NuGet Package (Naveen Bommidi)
Automatic Sample Rate Conversion with WASAPI (Mark Heath)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Welcome Advanced Installer Built-in Functionality for Adding Context Menu Items (Alexandra Stoienescu)
How to Silently Install EXE and MSI setup applications (Unattended) (Radu Popescu)
How Stripe Built a Writing Culture (RC Victorino)
Business App Problems That Threaten Team Productivity | Trello (Lydia Durkovic)
GitHub Desktop 3.0 Improves Collaboration and Development Workflow (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Is it Still Worth Learning React Native in 2022? (Bogdan Sandu)
Architecture MAD Skills series wrap up (Manuel Vincente Vivo)
Customizing performance metrics in the Unity Profiler (Andy Barnard)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Mary Grygleski on Event Streaming and Processing with Apache Pulsar (David Giard)
InfoQ Podcast: Recruiting and Retaining Great Technologists (Keren Halperin)
React Native Radio 233 – React 18 and the Future of React Native (Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami & Gant Laborde)
Your Daily Scrum: Can a Scrum Team Abandon a Product Goal? (Ryan Ripley)
Merge Conflict 304: Snap’s Pixy… the future of drones? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Visual Studio Toolbox – Managing Azure Services in a Visual Studio Project (Leslie Richardson & Angelos Petropoulos)
Azure Static Web Apps Anniversary (Wassim Chegham)
.NET MAUI RC 2 in 60 Seconds, Hello Tizen! #shorts (James Montemagno)
Cloud Conversations – Nikki Chapple on Teams Governance, Community & The Changing Face of Tech (Laurent Giret)
UI Breakfast Episode 238: The Allied Team Model with Anthony Armendariz (Jane Portman)
The Changelog – Nick’s big rewrite (Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, Kevin Ball & Feross Aboukhadijeh)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 356 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #135: Serverless for Frontend Engineers with Swizec Teller (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
AGL 257: Machine Learning and AI with Luke Arrigoni (John Rouda)
Top End Devs Update – Adventures in Angular 345 (Charles Max Wood)
Tabs and Spaces Podcast 205 – Can you compute with all the colours of the wind? (feat. Sean Haas) (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)
PPP 355 | Fear Is Holding You and Your Team Back–Here’s What To Do, with Unfear author Mark Minukas (Andy Kaufman)

Community & Events

Angular at I/O 2022 (Minko Gechev)
Join us live on May 19 for the Azure Static Web Apps Anniversary! (Nitya Narasimhan)
Meet the Splunktern: Suzette Sun (Katia Ratkovich)
Learn GraphQL at NDC Melbourne (Aaron Powell)
The New Stack Turns 8 (Alex Williams)

Database

Simplify Schema Migration On Couchbase Kubernetes Deployments (Justin Ashworth)
Graph your data with Gremlin (Jason Farrell)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2022 (Microsoft Teams Team)

Miscellaneous

Trying Out The Steam Deck (Den Delimarsky)
Let’s make this the last pandemic (Bill Gates)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Ultimate Guide to Technical Writing (Chris Wolfgang)
Every ridiculous thing we learned today about Elon Musk’s plan to take over Twitter (Richard Lawler)

More Link Collections

C# Digest Issue #413 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #18, 2022 – F# eXchange 2022 & VS4Mac 2022 RC (Sergey Tihon)
The Overflow #123: Will Web3 build a better internet? (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Reading Notes #505 (Frank Boucher)
Friday Five: Dataverse Solutions, Microsoft Defender, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The Wolf Report – May 2nd, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Windows Graphics News – 2022 Q1 (Ana Marta Carvalho)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – January 31, 2022 (#3610)

Posted on January 31, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Build your first WinUI 3 app (Part 1) and Adding event handlers: Sounds, Dark Mode & Windowing (Part 2) and Making the app single-instanced (Part 3) (Jingwei Zhang)
Windows Template Studio – reborn! (Matt Lacey)
LINQ improvements in .NET 6 (Bruno Sonnino)
Azure DevOps requires TLS 1.2 on all connections including Visual Studio (Ruben Rios)
Power Apps and the .NET Developer (Matthew Soucoup)

Web & Cloud Development

Containerless! How to Run WebAssembly Workloads on Kubernetes with Rust (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Using Azure AD Authentication for a Go API (Jonathan Channon)
Dynamically Creating Script Tags With Umbrella JS (Ben Nadel)
How to Create an Instant Search Input with Debounce in React.js (Anderson Osayerie)
Code-Splitting: Get a Better Performance When Developing With React (Chinedu Imoh)
Implement a PWA using Blazor with BFF security and Azure B2C (Damien Bowden)
Use ASP.NET Core hosted services to run a background task (David Grace)
Security and web apps (Julian M. Bucknall)
Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API (Lorenzo Costa)
2 reasons I’m learning about CSS (Matt Lacey)
Chaos Monkey – Part 4 – Creating an Asp.Net 6 Application that Caches an Error (Paul Michaels)
APIs that Simplify How Teams Work with Document Management Systems (Joyce)
ESLint v8.8.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
FHIR Forms: Theory and background (David Hay)
Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension (David Walsh)
Install Bicep and get up and running and Learn Bicep Step by Step (Gregor Suttie)
What Web Frameworks Solve And How To Do Without Them (Part 1) (Noam Rosenthal)
Adding Custom Claims to ID Tokens with Auth0 Actions (Jessica Temporal)
Develop webhooks locally using Cloudflared Tunnel (Niels Swimberghe)
How to install Hugo on Windows 10 (Sarah Lean)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Ordering elements with ZIndex in .NET MAUI (Andreas Nesheim)
Updates in .NET MAUI – Summary 2021 (Luis Matos)
Uber Clone App using State Machine in Xamarin Forms (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

Top ‘On Roadmap’ Feature Request for Visual Studio 2022: Roll Back Updates (David Ramel)
Temporal Tables with EF Core 6 (Christian Nagel)
How to Copy Array Elements to New Array in C# (Code Maze)
Everything You Want to Know About the Record Type in .NET: Performance (Bruno Capuano)
Better Exception Handling With EntityFrameworkCore Exceptions (Wade Gausden)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Proven Ways To Future Proof Your Teams, Tools, And Organization (Britt Joiner)
A Look Inside the .git Folder (Eric Potter)
Calm the chaos with Microsoft To Do & Viva Briefing email (Ayeshni Dasgupta)
Creative Process Lessons from ‘Get Back’ (Brad Frost)
Hybrid work and the year ahead (Cyril Belikoff)
Secure Cloud Deployments with GitHub (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Mistakes First Time Leaders Make (George Stocker)
Optimize Pull Requests in Travis CI (Montana Mendy)
How to not get lost structuring your first Foundational Research (Nikita Chandawale)
Keep your workflow actions up to date using GitHub Dependabot (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
How to Get Started With UX Research (Nancy Young)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter Architecture ✨ (Gülsen )
Android Multi-Phone Debugging (j2inet)
Alexa.NET 1.20.0 was just released! (Tim Heuer)
Improving App Performance with Baseline Profiles (Kateryna Semenova, Rahul Ravikumar & Chris Craik)
Mobile game development best practices (Bogdan Sandu)
Programmers Explore the Secrets of Wordle (David Cassel)
Finding the Floor with HoloLens 2 and MRTK 2.7.3 and Removing the ‘hiccup’ from repeating Unity animations (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

OnPodcast Special: Chatting all things Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley (Arif Bacchus)
Technology & Friends – Jeff Blankenburg on AI Assistants in the Future (David Giard)
Merge Conflict 291: GitHub Actions All The Things (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: Data journalist Sherrell Dorsey on her new book, ‘Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us’ (Todd Bishop)
JS Party – What’s in your package.json? (Tobie Langel, Amal Hussein, Feross Aboukhadijeh & Christopher Hiller)
New Video: Coding Making Sense of reactive() and ref() in Vue.js (Shawn Wildermuth)
This VS Code Trick Helps You Find Your Projects 10x Faster! (Gerald Versluis)
InfoQ Podcast: Evidence Based Management with scrum.org (Patricia Kong)
AGL 245: Alex Murrey from TangoTeams (John Rouda)
Coding Blocks Podcast – PagerDuty’s Security Training for Engineers, The Dramatic Conclusion (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
The Amp Hour #575 – New Life Skills with Joe Grand (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 337 and Upgrading a WinForms App to .NET 6, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
DevOps.FM – The One Where We Talk Planning (Brian Randell)
Jeffrey Palermo on Software Careers – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 178 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The Download: Rancher Desktop 1.0, New Git Features, and TUI Toolkits (Christina Warren)
Getting Started with Deno & MongoDB (Jesse Hall)

Community & Events

Learn How Stacey-Ann Duhaney Leveled-Up Her Project Management Career Through the Tech Project Management Boot Camp (bwintersgullo)
Marketplace Office Hours (Business and Technical)- Register Now for February Sessions (Microsoft Developer Support)
My Journey at Microsoft: The First Three Months (Richard Hay)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Gino Messmer (MS Student Developer Team)
Only the great die at 11 (RIP Stack Overflow Jobs) (Tom Wright)

Database

Comparison of the VARCHAR(max) and VARCHAR(n) SQL Server Data Types (Daniel Farina)
Varchar Data Types in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL (Andrea Gnemmi)

SharePoint & MS Teams

The overhead of Widgets and Teams in Windows 11 (Michael Niehaus)
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2022 (Microsoft Teams Team)

PowerShell

Enable CLI Completion in PowerShell using Bash Completions (Cody Merritt Anhorn)

Miscellaneous

Looking at Writing Book Blurbs and How that can Help Conference Speakers (Chris Woodruff)
O’Reilly Reports Increasing Interest in Cybersecurity, AI, Go, Rust, and C++ (EditorDavid)
Generating Content Ideas That Will Resonate With Software Developers (Karl Hughes)
Windows 11 Gets a New Feature a Bit Early: Microsoft Account Management (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3400 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #400 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #5, 2022 – F# and WebAssembly, F# Show (Sergey Tihon)
Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
The Wolf Report – January 31st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
The Overflow #110: The Log4j vulnerability by the numbers (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Friday Five: Dev Productivity, MVP History, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

The Geek Shelf

Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0: Learn to turn the right screws to optimize ASP.NET Core applications for better performance, 2nd Ed (Jürgen Gutsch) – Referral Link

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