Month: September 2021

Top Links

• Announcing Azure Functions 4.0 public preview with .NET 6 support (Anthony Chu)
• Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes! (Grace Taylor)
• .NET Foundation Board of Directors Election 2021: Results! (Nicole Miller)
• Microsoft Refreshes Surface Lineup with Duo 2, Pro 8, and Go 3 and More and Surface Laptop Studio: Microsoft’s New Portable Workstation (Brad Sams)
• Introducing new Surface products, built for Windows 11 (Pete Kyriacou)

Web & Cloud Development

• General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 (Azure Sphere Team)
• Building the Excel to JSON Angular App: Part 1 – CSV to JSON (Brian Lagunas)
• Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet (Vitaly Friedman)
• Kubernetes, Give Me a Queue (Yaron Parasol)
• Node v16.10.0 (Current) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
• TextControl Version 30.0 Live Preview (Bjoern Meyer)
• Index Signatures in TypeScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• How to Explain Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures to Anyone (Joey deVilla)
• The Pros and Cons of Using a Chat API in Your App (Julia Serdiuk)
• Menu and Thumbnail Stack Animation (Mary Lou)
• Getting Up and Running with Dapr (Steve Jones)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Tips and Ticks when creating a Custom Control in Xamarin Forms. Part. 1 (Charlin Agramonte)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 – More Productivity (Kay Ewbank)
• Visual Studio 2022 Themes Revamped with Tool to Convert VS Code Themes (David Ramel)
• Converting between UTF-8 strings and UTF-16 strings in C++/WinRT (Raymond Chen)
• String Performance: Checking For an Empty String (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How Medical Companies are Innovating Through Agile Practices (Nancy Van Schooenderwoert & Brian Shoemaker)
• Open Source in the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (Google Open Source Programs Office)
• Dependency Injection Book Reviewed (Steve Smith)
• Git Branching Strategies vs. Trunk-Based Development (LaunchDarkly)
• Separating Concerns with Pipes & Filters (Derek Comartin)
• List Recent Git Branches (Elijah Manor)
• What Makes Figma so Popular for UI/UX Design and Why You Should Use It (Fazmeena Faisal)
• Bug Reporting—Writing for an Audience (Louise Gibbs)
• TeamCity 2021.2 EAP3 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
• What is an A/B Test? (Martin Tingley, Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane & Colin McFarland)
• So GitHub has a CLI – let’s take a look (Sarah Lean)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2022 (Rob Zwetsloot)
• StereoKit v0.3.3 (C# and OpenXR) (Nick Klingensmith)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – From React To SvelteKit (Wes Bos)
• .NET Rocks! – F# and JavaScript with Zaid Ajaj (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 041: The Third Age Of JavaScript With Shawn “swyx” Wang (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Podcast Episode 395 – SAP on Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
• Learn C# with CSharpFritz – Beginning C# – LINQ (Jeff Fritz)
• Enhance your Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva (Michael Gannotti)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Surface Laptop Studio Hands-on Review (Chris Greiser)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Surface Pro 8 Hands-on Review + Updates to the Surface 2-in-1 Lineup (Dave Mitchell)
• Design Details 413: Design Mentorship (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• Web Rush Episode 152: Creating a Successful Front-End Onboarding Plan with Dana Yudelevich (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• The MongoDB Podcast Episode 78 – Building Kustomer with Jeremy Suriel (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
• Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 135 – Adis Jugo (Nubelus) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)

Community & Events

• Calling on developers for Virtual Hackathon (Daniel Kim)
• GitLab launches Collective on Stack Overflow (Jascha Drel)
• Reconnect Series: Mike Walker (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• Top Oktoberfest Celebrations and Fall Beer Festivals in Philadelphia for 2021 (Visit Philly)
• Maker Spotlight: Will Gorecki (Jennifer Blakeslee)

Database

• Azure Database for MySQL: Azure Pipelines support in public preview and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 334 – How to copy data from one Cosmos DB container to another container (Azure Team)
• Query Store: A Better Execution Plan Alert (Aakash Patel)
• Oracle on Azure- Unix to Linux and Options (Kellyn Gorman)
• Current Date Time in Python and SQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• How lazy can you get by combining Alexa and Microsoft Teams? (Loryan Strant)

PowerShell

• Building an ETL with PowerShell (Greg Moore)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing Power Automate machine runtime (Quentin Sele Barancy)
• Windows on ARM on Apple Silicon – An Open Conversation (Wesley Miller)
• Microsoft refreshes its Surface PC portfolio including Android-based Duo 2 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22463 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Microsoft’s new Slim Pen 2 uses haptics to mimic the feeling of using a real pen (Cameron Faulkner)
• Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around (Dan Seifert)
• Microsoft Surface Pro 8 hands-on: the one we’ve waited for (Dieter Bohn)
• Autoruns v14.02, WinObj v3.12, Tcpview v4.15 and Process Monitor v3.85 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Microsoft Surface Duo vs Duo 2: Significant updates address first generation shortfalls (Matthew Miller)
• Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices (msmash)
• Microsoft’s new mouse has a shell that’s 20 percent recycled ocean plastic (Richard Lawler)
• paint.net 4.3 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo (Zoe Schiffer)
• Surface Adaptive Kit makes Microsoft’s laptops more accessible and Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link