Dew Drop – December 16, 2021 (#3580)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 4 (Jordan Matthiesen)
• Announcing the Plan for EF7 (Jeremy Likness)
• A brief history of code search at GitHub (Pavel Avgustinov)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Microservices using DAPR with Paul Yuknewicz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What’s new in .NET Productivity with Visual Studio 2022 (Mika Dumont)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 346 – How to use Azure Bastion to access virtual machines (Azure Team)
• JavaScript Modules – A Beginner’s Guide (Madison Kanna)
• Getting Started With Apollo Client in Your React App (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Bring Your Apps to Life With SignalR and .NET 6 (Assis Zang)
• WSL 2 GPU Support for Docker Desktop on NVIDIA GPUs (Frédéric Dalleau)
• An elegant way to performance test microservices on Kubernetes (Karan Singh)
• Beginner’s guide to Svelte – From basics to state management and animation (Stephenie Minami Nakajima)
• Optimistic Concurrency in an HTTP API with ETags & Hypermedia (Derek Comartin)
• Build Simple Timeline in React (Aleks Popovic)
• Real-time Speech Translator using Azure SignalR Service, Azure functions Azure Cognitive services and Blazor (Mangesh Gaherwar)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Read the latest Windows UI Library (WinUI) docs (Windows Dev Docs Team)
• Controls with NControl! (Walter Aguilar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Challenge: Find the slow down (Oren Eini)
• CRUD with Redis OM .NET – C# Advent (Stephen Lorello)
• Advent fun with F# and Advent of Code (Mark Allibone)
• C# Chasing 2021 TIOBE Index ‘Programming Language of the Year’ Award (David Ramel)
• How to Get an Item by Index From Dictionary in C# (Code Maze)
• CodeRush 21.2.5 for Visual Studio – Caps as a Shortcut Modifier and CodeRush Shortcut Cheat Sheet v4.0 (Mark Miller)
• Send Emails using the SendGrid API with .NET 6 and C# (Niels Swimberghe)
• The User Old Heap (UOH) (Mark Downie)
• 32feet.NET on .NET 5.0 and Above (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Kafka and .NET – Part 3 – Finally at .NET (Simon Timms)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How the advice process works in practice (Martin Fowler)
• December patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Understand how your teams adopt DevOps with DevOps reports (Orit Golowinski)
• Better Views For You (And Your Team) (Jordan Mirchev)
• Growing an Experiment-Driven Quality Culture in Software Development (Lisi Hocke)
• Test Studio Step-by-Step: Data-Driven Tests (Peter Vogel)
• Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers (Ryan Donovan)
• Use mind-mapping software to generate exciting new ideas and remove obstacles to your success (TechRepublic Academy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to make your Flutter app offline-first with Couchbase Lite (Gabriel Terwesten)
• Announcing Jetpack Glance Alpha for app widgets (Marcel Pintó Biescas)
• Announcing Stencil v2.12 (Anthony Giuliano)
• Feature preview: IL2CPP Full Generic Sharing in Unity 2022.1 beta (Josh Peterson)
• Taking Care of the User – Is Your Mobile App User-friendly? All You Need to Know About Usability Testing (Oleh Sadykow)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – Potluck – enums, WASM, Lighthouse, Redirects (Wes Bos)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 239: Bi-directional HA/DR to Azure SQL (Carlos L. Chacon)
• On .NET Episode: Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps (Cecil L. Phillip)
• Web Rush Episode 164: Rising, Stumbling and Getting Up Again: Life as a Tech Manager (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Talk Python to Me #345: 10 Tips and Tools for Developer Productivity (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Meta: Charting the future of our bug bounty program (Dan Gurfinkel)
• Apple Delays Corporate Return To Offices Indefinitely (BeauHD)
• A momentous year for Redgate Software (Kathi Kellenberger)
• Reddit files to take the company public (Kim Lyons)
• Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change (Lexie Hagen)
• Millinery on the Stack: Join us for Winter (Summer?) Bash, 2021! (Slate)
• A Guide to New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day in Greater Philadelphia for 2021/2022 (Visit Philly)
• W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (Xueyuan Jia)

Database

• Released: Update to Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server (David Engel)
• Reading data with Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB v3 (Ravi Tella)
• Azure Cosmos DB: Python SDK async IO support in public preview (Azure Team)
• DataGrip 2021.3.2 (Maksim Sobolevskiy)
• Data Compression for Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #188 (Pinal Dave)
• We Three Things: Dynamitey, Humanizer, SqlServer.Types (Matthew D. Groves)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• The Metaverse is here and Microsoft Teams is part of it (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• Minecraft crosses 1 trillion views on YouTube (Ash Parrish)
• US Surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22523 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Minecraft New Year’s celebration begins: Sale starts Dec. 21 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3376 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Wolf Report – December 16th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Joy of UX, The: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers (David Platt) – Referral Link