Dew Drop – January 27, 2022 (#3608)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Pro Microservices in .NET 6 with Sean Whitesell, Rob Richardson, and Matthew Groves (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Announcing Glance: Tiles for Wear OS made simple (Anna Bernbaum)
• A new era of the PC (Panos Panay)
• Modernizing DasBlog – from Web Forms to .NET 6 (James Montemagno & Mark Downie)
• Code search in Visual Studio 2022 is about to get much faster (Denizhan Yigitbas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Halo Infinite Web API Authentication (Den Delimarsky)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 350 – How to extract information from receipts with Azure Form Recognizer (Azure Team)
• A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element (Chris Coyier)
• A launch.json to turn VS code into a full web development IDE (Christian Heilmann)
• Connected Microservices with Azure Container Apps (Monojit Datta)
• How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs (Troy Hunt)
• Programmatically Determine what Ports Kestrel is Running On (Bryan Hogan)
• Modernizing DasBlog – from Web Forms to .NET 6 (Mark Downie)
• What every GraphQL user should know about HTTP and REST (Jens Neuse)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Closer Than Ever (Discover +5 New Features) (Dotnetsafer)
• .NET MAUI – Exploring Overlays (Michael Ridland)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Create a PNG File from a Web Page in C# (Roland Weigelt)
• Switch Expression with Multiple Cases That Return the Same Result in C# (Code Maze)
• Validating Objects With FluentValidation (Assis Zang)
• Colors in .NET: An In-Depth Guide (Peter Huber)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server patches (Gloridel Morales)
• Solving ‘The remote provider was unable to process the request’ in Azure DevOps (Jason Gaylord)
• DBAs and DevOps (Kathi Kellenberger)
• MSIX Packaging Tool January 2022 Release is now available! (Sharla Akers)
• GitHub Codespaces creation with the CLI (Rob Bos)
• What Is Product Management? Product Manager Responsibilities By Industry (anoriega)
• Event Sourcing vs Event Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
• Are you on the boat? (George Stocker)
• How To Kill Innovation (JD Meier)
• Getting started with GitHub Codespaces (Jim Bennett)
• Cut Time on Code Reviews and Project Planning With Static Analysis (Kateryna Shlyakhovetska)
• Keeping technologists in the flow state (Prashanth Chandrasekar)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter: Our favorite pub.dev libraries (Shawn Blais)
• Some Blender tricks for the impatient Mixed Reality / HoloLens developer (2) (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• AzureFunBytes Episode 66 – Building real-time apps with Azure SignalR with Chris Noring (Jay Gordon)
• Introduction to Azure SQL Bindings for Azure Functions | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Microsoft Mechanics – NoSQL Database for High Performance & Scalability | How to Get Started with Azure Cosmos DB (Jeremy Chapman & Estefani Arroyo)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 59: Everything Old Is New Again (Ben Nadel)
• PPP 346 | Lessons from a Successful Project Manager, with Donna Gregorio (Andy Kaufman)
• Design Details 426: Senior++ Designer Expectations (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 031: Increase Emotional Intelligence and Performance with Teresa Quinlan (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• One Dev Question – How much extra work is it for developers to add accessibility into their games? (Kaitlyn Jones)

Community & Events

• The Dev Talk Show (Feb 2) – Azure Container Apps LIVE (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
• Student Ambassador community voices: Learnings from 2021 and new beginnings (MS Student Developer Team)
• Grow your career at Unity (Lauren Allen & Corin Lane)
• Gates Foundation names first outside trustees, bringing new oversight to $50B philanthropy (Todd Bishop)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TempDB Error: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Display dates between two input dates using SQL DATEDIFF function in SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
• Oracle to Azure Refactoring Go or No-Go Indicators (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• Easily Deploy SQL Server Always On via AWS Launch Wizard (Carla Abanes)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• How to set up SPFx development environments for multiple SharePoint Server deployments (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft Teams users can now chat with any Teams user outside their organization (Noga Ronen)
• Create your first Adaptive Card Extensions(ACEs) with SPFx (Siddharth Vaghasia)

PowerShell

• How to detect and delete unusable nodes in Batch Service automatically by PowerShell Script (Jay Gong)

Miscellaneous

• Power Automate for desktop – January 2022 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
• Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month (Tom Warren)
• Supervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning (Exxact Team)
• How to have a better interview (Michael Eaton)
• Microsoft Account service now reaches 1 billion users (Kevin Okemwa)
• Updating your Class Notebook Addin for OneNote Desktop to the latest version (Mike Tholfsen)
• Writing With Style: 10 Style Guides to Inspire You (Svetlana Novikova)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3398 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – January 27th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# (Scott Wlaschin) – Referral Link