Dew Drop – December 2, 2021 (#3570)

Top Links

• Introducing the new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022 (Mika Dumont)
• Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out (Tim Anderson)
• Visual update in Office for Windows now available! (Kori Loomis)
• XAML inline RowDefinitions and ColumnDefinitions (Fons Sonnemans)
• New Microsoft Teams Essentials is built for small businesses (Jared Spataro)

Web & Cloud Development

• What’s new in Svelte: December 2021 (Daniel Sandoval)
• How to Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters With Best Practices (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
• How to Send Recurring Emails in Node.js with SendGrid (Dhruv Patel)
• How To Protect Your API Key In Production With Next.js API Route (Caleb Olojo)
• React, Svelte or Angular: Which one to pick of the three? (Janus Atienza)
• How to safely apply an EF Core migrate on ASP.NET Core startup (Jon P. Smith)
• ‘defineComponent’ in Vue 3 Is Pure Magic! Do You Know How It Works? (Plamen Zdravkov)
• How to change the Jupyter Notebook default directory (Donovan Brown)
• Building a chat bot in 2022 (Andreas Botsikas)
• Node v16.13.1 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
• Exploring Go v1.18’s Generics (Big Nerd Ranch Team)
• Microsoft Edge’s Many Processes (Eric Lawrence)
• Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0 (James Dawson)
• Grid Zoom Layout (Mary Lou)
• Different HttpClient Techniques to Consume API Calls in Minimal API [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Check Out Our New Developer Resources, Plus a New Plugin Showcase Page on Behance (Sharayoo Jog)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Save Memory by Exporting and Importing Annotations in WPF PDF Viewer (Deepak G)
• Top 10 Must-Have Features in a WinUI Event Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Here We Are: WinUI Report Viewer for Desktop (Sia Aleksieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Using C# and Auto ML in ML .NET to Predict Video Game Ratings (Matt Eland)
• Simulated Annealing Optimization Using C# or Python (James McCaffrey)
• How can my C++/WinRT component pass a std::vector back to the caller? and How can I transfer ownership of a C-style array to a Windows Runtime component? (Raymond Chen)
• Lamar v7 meets .Net 6, Minimal APIs, and IAsyncDisposable (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces and A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Book Club: Scaling Agility (James Shore)
• Should you use the Repository Pattern? With CQRS, Yes and No! (Derek Comartin)
• Octopus Deploy Config as Code: early access preview (Rob Pearson)
• Design Patterns for Serverless Systems (Tridib Bolar)
• Introducing Canvas view in the web app, now in beta (Sketch Team)
• Modularity – The Shared Future of Computer Science and Space Travel (Ilyana Smith)
• The Burgeoning Need for Focus (Allen Pike)
• Page Object Model Design Pattern Using xUnit Part 8 (Anton Angelov)
• Going from Coder to Slack Engineer (Chaitanya Ravula)
• Create Merge Requests, Code Reviews, and Other Space Updates in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers (Yaswanth Anantharaju)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Raspberry Pi Goes Public And For Profit? (I Programmer)
• Release v3.29 – Dart Code – Dart & Flutter support for Visual Studio Code (Dart Code Team)
• Develop watch faces with the stable Jetpack Watch Face library (Alex Vanyo)
• Try the new LookDev Studio prototype today (Emma Vig & Daniel Todorov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – Everything in web dev is Amazing! (Wes Bos)
• .NET Rocks! – Thinking WAAAY Outside the Box with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Developer Tea – The Focus IS the Work (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 51: You Are Replaceable (Ben Nadel)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial (Jeremy Chapman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Introducing the Kanban method to Agile teams in a complex project | Lucia Alarcon (Vasco Duarte)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episodes 237 and 238: Getting Started with Power BI (Carlos L. Chacon)
• The Changelog – Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Jessica Lord, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Web Rush Episode 162: Life outside code with Mark Thompson (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)

Community & Events

• UnoConf (2021) – Quick reactions (Matt Lacey)
• New AWS Scholarship Program Helps Underrepresented and Underserved Students Prep for Careers in AI and ML (Antje Barth)
• Meet the Splunktern: Anna Nosek (Helen O’Keeffe)
• Time To Open Advent of Code (Sue Gee)
• Check out the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old in Q4 (Juan M.)

Database

• How to Enable and Configure SQL Server Agent for SQL Server 2019 on RHEL 8.1 (Manvendra Singh)
• Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution due to unparameterized Contains queries generated by Entity Framework 6 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SQL SERVER – Is Query from Cache? Execution Plan Property (Pinal Dave)
• Dealing with complex hierarchies in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Merry Graphmas: Working with Cosmos DB Gremlin API (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Microsoft launches Teams Essentials, built for small businesses (Jimmy Ward)
• Developing Enterprise-Ready Microsoft Teams Apps with Teams Toolkit v3.0 (Tomomi Imura)
• Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial (Zachary Cavanell)

Miscellaneous

• How acoustics experts turned down the volume on the Space Needle’s makeover (Alan Boyle)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• What the Future Developer Will Look Like (DeveloperMedia)
• OneNote on Microsoft Surface Duo, the perfect match! (OneNote PM)
• PowerToys 0.51 brings new mouse highlighter tool for presentations (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3366 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Wolf Report – December 2nd, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 New Apple AirPods Pro – Referral Link