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Dew Drop – February 22, 2022 (#3627)

Posted on February 22, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

#30DaysOfPWA #08 – Introducing Advanced Capabilities of PWAs (Nitya Narasimhan)
Install tools for preview and experimental channels of the Windows App SDK (Windows Dev Docs Team)
Debug .NET applications running in local containers with VS Code (Tom Deseyn)
Building .NET Project Docs With DocFX On GitHub Pages (James Croft)
The 6 Figure Developer – .NET Turns 20 and Clean Architecture with Steve Smith (John Calaway)

Web & Cloud Development

Model Validation Using FluentValidation in ASP.NET (Andrew Kulta)
Implementing SSO with Angular and AWS Cognito (Chameera Dulanga)
Working with Azure SDK for .NET (Max Hamulyák)
Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with Bitbucket (Rupa Reddy)
Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with GitLab (Sachin Rathor)
How YOU can build a Mock REST API based on JSON for ASP .NET and minimal API (Chris Noring)
Automating FHIR IG Generation from Non-FHIR Sources by cloning myself (Keith W. Boone)
RSS3 Brings Syndication Feeds (and FriendFeed) to Web3 (Richard MacManus)
The Tuple Type in Typescript (Maina Wycliffe)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Windows App SDK – Application lifecycle functionality migration (Steven White)

Visual Studio & .NET

DotNet Development without Visual Studio (using VS Code) (Kevin Logan)
3 Tips on Upgrading Your Visual Studio Extension 2022 (Alon Sapozhnikov)
Params Keyword in C# (Bartosz Jarmuż)
COM asynchronous interfaces, part 6: Learning about completion without polling (Raymond Chen)
Please stop lying about .NET Standard 2.0 support! (Andrew Lock)
Merging Form Fields using the MailMerge Class (Bjoern Meyer)
FALSE compiler in .NET (MixusMinimax)
Making Code Connections (David Oliver)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Advanced Installer 19.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
Think big, start small (Jon Hilton)
How to work with complex Symbols (Sketch Team)
Why So Many Ideas Die or Don’t Get Adopted (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build Native Apps with Flutter (RaftLabs)
Why Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK (Theodoros Karasavvas)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Revision Path – Azeez Alli-Balogun (Maurice Cherry)
Smashing Podcast Episode 45 With Jeremy Wagner: What Is Reponsible JavaScript? (Drew McLellan)
InfoQ Podcast: The Challenges of DevOps and the Importance of Developer Experience with Jyoti Bansal (Jyoti Bansal)
DevTalk 78: Improving the UX of Xamarin apps. With Charlin Agramonte and Rendy del Rosario (Kerry Lothrop)
Power Virtual Agents & Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams | Chatbot Demo & Tutorial | Microsoft Mechanics (Lili Cheng & Jeremy Chapman)
Migrating to Azure SQL with Mohamed Kabiruddin – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 181 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Create a .NET MAUI Windows MSIX to Sideload Or Publish to the Microsoft Store (Gerald Versluis)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping a Scrum team survive an experienced, but non-collaborative team member | Usman Kotwal (Vasco Duarte)
Directions on Microsoft Episode 03: Power BI – Beyond Pretty Pictures (Mary Jo Foley & Andrew Snodgrass)
Coding After Work – OAuth for developers with Dan Moore (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
UI Breakfast Episode 233: Demystifying Product Funnels with Rachel Obstler (Jane Portman)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 154 – Vardhaman Deshpande (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)

Community & Events

Reflections on My Introduction to .NET on Its 20th Anniversary (David Giard)
rust-analyzer joins the Rust organization! (The rust-analyzer Team)
Code.org bands together with Coldplay to get kids dancing and coding via #codeplay contest (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1 and SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2 (Robert Dorr)
Released: SCOM Management Pack for SQL Server (7.0.36.0) (Ebru Ersan)
Export Azure SQL Database | Advanced Scenarios (Ahmed S. Mahmoud)
Learn about Azure Cosmos DB Globally Distributed Databases (Rajendra Gupta)
How to Create a Dataset for Machine Learning (Exxact Team)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams Adds Local Time Information to User Profile Cards (Rabia Noureen)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft goes public with details on its ‘Singularity’ AI infrastructure service (Mary Jo Foley)
Working with WSL distributions (Steve Fenton)
Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 desktop watermark for unsupported hardware (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3415 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week (2022-8) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #45 (Sam Basu)
The Wolf Report – February 22nd, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Reading Notes #495 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – January 21, 2022 (#3604)

Posted on January 21, 2022 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Jetpack Compose WindowState preview (Kristen Halper)
Developer Perspectives Episode 8 | Ale Thomas and Scott Spence (Windows Developer Team)
Windows 11 is getting a new Task Manager design (Tom Warren)
Debugging Compatibility in Edge (Eric Lawrence)
Getting started with Protocol Handlers for your web app (Diego Gonzalez)
What Is Single Project in .NET MAUI? (Leomaris Reyes)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Create a React App with Storybook (Holger Schmitz)
Mixing Promises And async / await For Caching Purposes In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Azure SDK Release (January 2022) (Azure SDK Team)
How to Create an Azure Function App Using C# (Claudio Bernasconi)
NoJS – Creating a calculator with only pure HTML and CSS. No Javascript! by Gurveer Arora (Gurveer Arora)
Building The Real App With React Query (Georgii Perepecho)
Angular 2021 Recap and 2022 Preview (Mark Thompson)
jQuery UI 1.13.1 released (Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek)
Part-1 Blazor Server Cookie Authentication (Naveen Bommidi)
Execute a long running SQL Stored Procedure in Azure logic app using an Automation Account (Saroja L. Sattigeri)
Eleventy v1.0.0, the stable release. (Zach Leatherman)
Building host implementations for WebAssembly interfaces (Radu Matei)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Binding To a Parent Element in UWP and WinUI 3 (Magnus Montin)
Facebook SDK v12.2 for Xamarin.iOS Now Available (Israel Soto)

Visual Studio & .NET

Don’t assume the result of read() (Oren Eini)
Quantum-Inspired Annealing Using C# or Python (James McCaffrey)
New Task.WaitAsync method in .NET 6 (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
How to Create and Publish a NuGet Package with .NET CLI (Muhammed Saleem)
Series – Getting Started with .NET Platform, .NET Framework & .NET Core (.NET 5+) (Sanjay)
Progress Telerik Adds 20-Plus Components for Blazor, .NET MAUI and WinUI (David Ramel)
C#, Java, and PowerShell Code to Extract Images Embedded in a PDF (Gabriel Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Divert the Flow (Martin Fowler)
Reminiscence of a Scrum Master (Part 4) by Frank Hubin (Frank Hubin)
Observable Infrastructure as Code (Kay Plößer)
Big Tech Bets (Justin Etheredge)
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it? (Peter Cihon)
How To Create A Realistic And Enjoyable Career Path For Your Team Members (Deanna deBara)
Advanced Installer 19.1 (Advanced Installer Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android Basics and Training Update (Dan Galpin)
Updates to Ionic Angular Toolkit (Mike Hartington)
Make Payments with Google Pay and Firebase (Stephen McDonald)
The latest in Search: Unity 2021.2 (Sebastien Phaneuf)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CppCast – Binary Exploits with Marit Tokle and Christian Ressell (Rob Irving)
.NET Core Podcast – Clean Architecure with Matthew Jeorrett (Jamie Taylor)
Hanselminutes – Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD (Scott Hanselman)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 241: Replicating Data with Azure SQL Data Sync (Carlos L. Chacon)
React Native Radio 224 – React Native Web on Next.js with Fernando Rojo (Fernando Rojo, Jon Major & Mazen Chami)
How to prepare for an interview – Adventures in DevOps 101 (Jonathan Hall)
Animating Controls in .NET MAUI & Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Creative thinking formats to spice up your retrospectives | Linda van Sinten (Vasco Duarte)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Who’s going to pay to fix open source security? (Ben Popper)
Rocket 369: Crypto.com Presents (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
Design Details 425: Overengineering Variants (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
What are the major highlights in .NET 6? (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Windows Weekly 760: The Activision Acquisition (Paul Thurrott)

Community & Events

Intel selects Ohio for ‘largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet’ (Jon Porter)

Database

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.0.1 (David Engel)
Add Last Step to SQL Agent Jobs for Failure Notification (Jeffrey Yao)

PowerShell

When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider (Amber Erickson)

Miscellaneous

Generate SSH RSA Key Pairs on Windows with WSL (Steve Smith)
Hands-on with Microsoft’s simple — yet effective — Surface Adaptive Kit (Jason Cipriani)
Microsoft is now on TikTok, where the cool kids talk (Laurent Giret)
Using Power Automate to send tweets based on my RSS feed (Mark Downie)
Announcing Rust 1.58.1 (The Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3394 (Chris Alcock)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.01.21 (Jay Gordon)
Collective #695 (Mary Lou)
The Wolf Report – January 21st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Code Maze Weekly #110 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning gRPC with ASP.NET Core 6: Build Applications using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular, and Best Practices in .NET 6 (Anthony Giretti) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 13, 2021 (#3577)

Posted on December 13, 2021 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Fixing sync over async issues in .NET (Mark Downie)
Parallel.ForEachAsync Deep Dive (Greg Bair)
Jessica Engström on User Experience – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 171 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Reducing Developer Cycle time with Dapr and AKS (Kevin Dawkins)
Async Disposables The Easy Way (Phil Haack)

Web & Cloud Development

Mocking Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core Integration Tests (Muhammad Azeez)
New in Node.js: node: protocol imports (Axel Rauschmayer)
Try React 18 RC with TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid (Chris Coyier)
A Simple Kubernetes Admission Webhook (Clément Labbe)
Implement Compound Proof BBS+ verifiable credentials using ASP.NET Core and MATTR (Damien Bowden)
Case-sensitivity on AWS – redux (Julian M. Bucknall)
How to connect Azure SQL database from Python Function App using managed identity or access token (Kevin Li)
Running Docker Compose Interactively (Paul Michaels)
AWS Announces Construct Hub and New Version of AWS Cloud Development Kit at re:Invent 2021 (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Standardizing Focus Styles With CSS Custom Properties (Stephanie Eckles)
Custom JSON Serialization with System.Text.Json Converters (Steve Gordon)
navigator.clipboard API (David Walsh)
How to Access ES Module Metadata using import.meta (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Top 7 Machine Learning Frameworks for Web Development (Fazmeena Faisal)
Open Graph: a guide to sharable social media previews (John Reilly)
Microservice Scalability Challenges and How to Overcome Them (Joydip Kanjilal)
Set Up Let’s Encrypt with Contour Using VMware Tanzu Community Edition (Kendrick Coleman)
Mantras for Secure FHIR Development (John Moehrke)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Create a File Picker Using Xamarin.Essentials and Telerik UI for Xamarin (Dobrinka Yordanova)
Applying borders in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

Digging into the .NET Dictionary implementation… (Oren Eini)
New in Visual Studio Code v1.63: Theme Previewing, Notebook Improvements, More (David Ramel)
C# Advent 2021 – Using C# Code in Power Automate (Barrett Blake)
Rider 2021.3.1 and ReSharper 2021.3.1 Released (Asia Rudenko)
How to Run Code in a New Thread in C# (Bartosz Jarmuż)
EF Core 6 new features and changes for .NET 6 (David Grace)
Syncfusion Controls Support .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 (Mohamed Samsudeen)
Getting Started With .NET IL (Mike James)
Kafka and .NET – Part 1 – What is Kafka? (Simon Timms)
The Magickal Way to Distort Images (Jeremy Sinclair)
Data Inferencing in Loading Data (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Working With Alternative Data Streams::The “Hidden” Part of Your Windows File System on Windows (j2inet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

PSF Trace Fixup – Troubleshoot an MSIX package failure (Horatiu Vladasel)
Agile Principles: Frictionless Collaboration (Al Tenhundfeld)
Learn in 1 Hour: Design Patterns (Anastasia Khramushina)
Snapshot Testing with Verify (Dan Clarke)
Maturity levels of using GitHub Actions Securely (Rob Bos)
Writing deterministic tests in a variable world (Dane Schilling)
Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions (Jay Destro)
End to End Testing with 30DaysOfPlaywright #004 | Tool Talk: Hello, Trace Viewer (Nitya Narasimhan)
9 Ways To Make The Holiday Season Less Stressful For Your Employees (Sam Milbrath)
GitHub Improves Code Navigation and Search (Sergio De Simone)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Gift Guide To Raspberry Pi Pico and Programmer Gifts – Pi For Xmas (Harry Fairhead)
Flutter on Raspberry Pi (mostly) from scratch (Chinmay Garde)
Flutter Memory Optimization Series (AbdulMuaz Aqeel)
How to setup dart-define for keys and secrets on Android and iOS in Flutter apps (Gildásio Filho)
How to automate localization for Flutter apps (GitLab Team)
17 Fun Projects for New Boards from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Micro:Bit, and More (Keith Hammond)
Connecting USB devices to WSL on Windows with usbipd-win for Linux IoT device support! (Scott Hanselman)
Best Project Management Software For Game Developers (Enrique Corrales)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S18:E6 – How you can use music to learn code (Sam Aaron) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer Tea – Input Quadrant – A Tool for Better Retrospectives (Jonathan Cutrell)
OnPodcast Episode 56: Halo Infinite campaign launch, new Windows 11 notepad & big Insider build (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
Merge Conflict 284: C# 10 Global & Implicit Usings (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
JS Party – So much Sveltey goodness (Rich Harris, Amal Hussein & Amelia Wattenberger)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 022 – AWS Construct Hub, CDK V2, and CDK Watch with Danielle Kucera and Adam Ruka (David Isbitski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Agile anti-patterns that emerge when the PO tells the team what to do | Maximilian Dazer (Vasco Duarte)
Meta Cast 211 – How To Handle This Wild Job Market (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
UI Breakfast Episode 228: Design Advisory with Brian Lovin (Jane Portman)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 323 (Jason Bock)
AGL 239: In The Lead with Dr. Janet Polach (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Interview – Jeffrey Snover, The Inventor of PowerShell (Elizabeth Lvova)
Pantone Color of the Year 2022 (Ben Moss)
The Projects and People that Shaped Open Source in 2021 (Celeste Malia)

Database

How to Create a FOR Loop in SQL Server (Koen Verbeeck)
Temporal Tables In SQL Server (Wade Gausden)

SharePoint, Microsoft 365 & MS Teams

Display images in Adaptive Cards (Tomasz Poszytek)

Miscellaneous

Hidden Xbox APIs: Backing Up Media Captures (Den Delimarsky)
Your Windows 11 upgrade is ready. Should you do it? (Ed Bott)
The Ultimate Guide to Installing Windows 11 (Michael Otey)
My Essential Software (Rinat Abdullin)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3373 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #393 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #50, 2021 – Rider 2021.3, F# 6 Tasks and data pipelines (Sergey Tihon)
The Overflow #103: Does modern parenting require spyware? (Ryan Donovan)
The Wolf Report – December 13th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
Firday Five: Power Apps, Teams Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
Reading List 284 (Bruce Lawson)
C++ Annotated November 2021: Discussions on C++ Ecosystem, a Book on C++ Core Guidelines, Designated Initializers, and Recent Releases (Anastasia Kazakova)
Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)

The Geek Shelf

Righting Software (Juval Löwy) – Referral Link