Dew Drop – March 11, 2022 (#3640)

Top Links

• Microsoft Edge dual-screen web APIs (Craig Dunn)
• XAML Styler | Visual Studio Toolbox (Nico Vermeir, Dave Grochocki & Robert Green)
• The problem with tutorials (Burke Holland)
• #30DaysOfPWA #25 – Best Practices for PWA: Reliability (Zach Teutsch)
• Cancellation, Part 3: Detecting Cancellation (Stephen Cleary)
• Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA) (Jason Helmick)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Azure Purview workflows (Azure Team)
• Azure Apps Autopilot (Justin Yoo)
• Let’s Learn Blazor: Creating a Desktop App with Electron.NET (Christopher Laine)
• Azure Logic Apps – Availability Zone support is coming soon (Bec Lyons)
• Building a Design System and Consuming it in Multiple Frameworks using Stencil.js (Nathan Bennett & Richard Flosi)
• Create Azure B2C users with Microsoft Graph and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• An Introduction To AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) (Vivek Maskara)
• How To Render Blazor Components Dynamically (Jon Hilton)
• Everything You Need To Know About the React 18 RC (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Go from the beginning – converting between types (Chris Noring)
• Node v17.7.1 (Current) (Stewart X. Addison)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Replicating Contact & Message UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
• What’s wrong with this WinUI code? (Matt Lacey)
• Syncfusion .NET MAUI 2022 Roadmap (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Adding The Drop Shadow Effect To A Xamarin.Forms Application (Vicente Gerardo Guzman Lucio)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Add Parameters to a String in C# (Code Maze)
• Downloading and Pushing NuGet packages in C# (Mark Heath)
• .NET 6 Lambdas on ARM64 – Part 2, Serverless (Bryan Hogan)
• Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 4 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How scaleups get constrained by talent (Martin Fowler)
• Agile vs. Scrum: Which Project Management Framework Is Best for Your Business? (anoriega)
• How to automatically code sign the MSI with GitHub Actions (Alex Marin)
• The Power of Daily Affirmations For Professional Development And Confidence (With 10 Examples) (Deanna deBara)
• Improved management for GitHub Enterprise owners (Melody Mileski)
• Using Conditional Logic to Improve Form Design and UX (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 10 years of Raspberry Pi: The $25 computer has come a long way (Simon Bisson)
• Play Time with Jetpack Compose (Andrew Flynn & Jon Boekenoogen)
• 3D print you own replica Astro Pi flight case (Richard Hayler)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – New C++ Scope and Debugging Support with René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (Rob Irving)
• Hanselminutes – What does it take to go fast? with Fastly’s Ines Sombra (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET MAUI Preview 13, Just In Time Before Preview 14 (Gerald Versluis)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner that knew how to nurture an Agile culture in the team | Nick Nielsen (Vasco Duarte)
• How to use Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams Meetings (Microsoft Teams)
• Rocket 376: Mac Thicc (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 422 – Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Eira May)
• UX Podcast #284 – Additive bias (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Windows Weekly 767: Searching for Longhorn (Paul Thurrott)
• Web Rush Episode 174: Where Should You Go for Authentic Tech Advice? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 348: Jevons Paradox (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• Presentation: WASM in the Wild West: A Practical Application Tale (Taylor Thomas & Matt Butcher)
• The .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 108: Buddy App (Matt Soucoup)

Community & Events

• Internal Platform Hackathon Solutions (Dave Upton)

Database

• To SQL or noSQL… is that even a question? (J.K. Kashe)
• Request for comments: Removing graph queries from RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Ingesting Data from Azure Storage Blobs into an ADX Table (David Giard)
• Database Code Reviews (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

• Of all our foundation’s grants, this was my dad’s favorite (Bill Gates)
• Microsoft details its Steam Deck support for Xbox Game Studios titles (Tom Warren)
• An update on Microsoft’s sustainability commitments: Building a foundation for 2030 (Brad Smith & Lucas Joppa)
• Working toward a net zero future: Evolving our work with energy companies (Darryl Willis & Lucas Joppa)
• The Steam Deck now runs Windows (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3428 (Chris Alcock)
• The Wolf Report – March 11th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Collective #702 (Mary Lou)
• Code Maze Weekly #114 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

 The Customer-Driven Playbook: Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products (Travis Lowdermilk & Jessica Rich) – Referral Link