Dew Drop – January 5, 2022 (#3593)

Top Links

• The Future of OData (OData NxT) (Hassan Habib)
• Using Native Controls in Uno Platform Applications – Demo Code Included (Uno Platform Team)
• Metaverse increases equality, accessibility and inclusivity (Vesa Nopanen)
• Create Context-based Programming Models with .NET 6 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• .NET MAUI Source Of Truth – Exploring IWindow (Michael Ridland)

Web & Cloud Development

• Crafting Scroll Based Animations in Three.js (Bruno Simon)
• Should CSS Override Default Browser Styles? (Chris Coyier)
• How to troubleshoot and fix ASP.NET Core bugs in a production environment (David Grace)
• Building ASP.NET Core and EF Core multi-tenant apps – Part 1: the database (Jon P. Smith)
• Angular for Workflow Processes (Nalla Senthilnathan)
• Tutorial: Intro to React (React Team)
• Easily Use a JavaScript Control in a Blazor Server App (Prabu Sarvesan)
• .NET 6 Razor Pages CRUD Operations With Entity Framework Core (Naveen Bommidi)
• 50 Projects For React & The Static Web (Colby Fayock)
• Fleet Manager, an easy way to check in on an EC2 Windows instance (Bryan Hogan)
• A New Way to Look Like Splunk (Ryan O’Connor)
• Keeping up-to-date with web development (Michael Scharnagl)
• Microsoft Releases Open Source Distributed Machine Learning Library (Kay Ewbank)
• Tracking down initialization issues in Optimizely (Brian Weeteling)
• January 10th 2022 node.js Security Releases (Bryan English)
• Three ways of handling user input (Patrick Dubroy)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Microsoft Details Entity Framework Core 7 Plan, EF6 to EF Core Porting (David Ramel)
• Polymorphism in C# (Code Maze)
• Compiling sqlcipher (sqlite encrypted) for Windows using Visual Studio 2022 (Dominique St-Amand)
• 10 Best C# NuGet Packages to Improve Your Productivity in 2022 (Sangeetha Periyaiah)
• Show Reassigned Variables in Visual Studio (Steve Fenton)
• Errors and Suspicious Code Fragments in .NET 6 Sources (Sergey Vasiliev)
• Automatically fix your namespaces (Steve Fenton)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How To Avoid 8 Common Agile Anti-Patterns Hurting Your Team (Søren Pedersen)
• Open format: How Sketch’s open file format can supercharge your workflows (Sketch Team)
• Test Studio Step-by-Step: Testing Execution Paths With Conditional Tests (Peter Vogel)
• The road to smarter code reviewer recommendations (Taylor McCaslin)
• The Role of CI/CD Pipeline in Software Development (Tetiana Stoyko)
• Death to Tribal Knowledge (Tyler Hawkins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter & Flame Step 7: Play the game (Christian Muehle)
• Journey into XR Development (April Speight)
• Dart type you have NEVER used (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
• Building the EAS 2021 Conference App (Matt Netkow)
• Five predictions for the UXR world in 2022 (Michele McDanel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Developer Tea – Purpose Oriented Resolutions, Part Two, and 7 Years of Developer Tea! (Jonathan Cutrell)
• SSW Tech News: Microsoft Loop, .NET 6, npm & Yarn packages, NuGet 6, VS 2022, GitHub, Teams (SSW TV)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 330 (Jason Bock)
• RunAs Radio – DevSecOps in 2022 with Jess Dodson (Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Cloud Migration – Options for virtual machines, databases, web apps and containers explained (Matt McSpirit)
• Implement Full-Text Search over a GraphQL API in Atlas (MongoDB Team)
• The 6 Figure Developer 226 – Mary & Tom Poppendieck: Software Engineering (John Callaway)
• New Rant: On Revaluating Tech We Hate (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – America’s oldest law enforcement agency: The United States Postal Inspection Service (Yasmine Di Giulio & Dale Parsan)

Community & Events

• AWS re:Post Takes on Stack Overflow (Michael Otey)
• Web Wednesday: TypeScript and GraphQL with Aaron Powell (Microsoft Developer)
• CES 2022: Windows on Arm PC ecosystem grows with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and 7c+ Gen 3 compute platforms (Athima Chansanchai)
• A more inclusive future. Together. (Graham Odds)
• Once a Developer, Always a Developer (Robert Demmer)
• Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Demetris Bakas (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

• Book Review: Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration, 3e (Ian Stirk)
• How to replace an identity column with a sequence number (Greg Larsen)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• How to use the whiteboard in Microsoft Teams (Lance Whitney)
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2021 (Mark Kashman)
• Microsoft Teams to Tackle Meeting Fatigue with New “Hide Your Own Video” Feature (Rabia Noureen)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Install SQL Server and Oracle using PowerShell and Windows Containers (Pablo Echeverria)
• Practical Shell Patterns I Actually Use (Ian Miell)

Miscellaneous

• First Microsoft Pluton-powered Windows 11 PCs to start rolling out this year (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Graph Authentication in Python (Melanie Hall)
• DuckDuckGo Just Finished a Banner Year and WHO Official Downplays Coronavirus Variant Found in France (msmash)
• paint.net 4.3.7 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – January 5th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | January 2022 (Rachel Appel)
• Microsoft Security Matters Newsletter – Dec 2021 Edition (Jeremy Windmiller)

The Geek Shelf

 Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows & Diana Wright) – Referral Link