Dew Drop – March 28, 2022 (#3651)

Top Links

• App Actions in .NET MAUI (Andreas Nesheim)
• JS Party Podcast – Web development for beginners (Jen Looper, Jerod Santo & Ali Spittel)
• Jon Galloway – Yet Another Podcast (Jesse Liberty)
• What’s up with TimeZoneInfo on .NET 6? (Part 2) (Jon Skeet)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 356 – How to automatically scale Azure App Services (Azure Team)
• Optional Parameters in ASP.NET Core Web API Routing (Code Maze)
• Implementing OAuth2 APP to APP security using Azure AD from a Web APP (Damien Bowden)
• CSS :has (David Walsh)
• Angular Basics: Conditional Statements With NgSwitch (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
• ESLint v8.12.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Bicep Access policies and Managed Identity (Gregor Suttie)
• Frontend and API Testing Using Cypress and Postman (Joyce)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• No Code font tester in WPF (Bruno Sonnino)
• Building a Task Sequence in Xamarin Forms/ MAUI (Part 1) (Rendy Del Rosario)
• Xamarin MAUI: Pair to Mac M1 chip from Windows machine for iOS development using Visual Studio 2022 Preview (Suthahar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Compare Arrays in C# (Code Maze)
• Using PowerPoint as a WYSIWIG Editor for HTML Templates (Proof of Concept in C#) (Roland Weigelt)
• Behind C++/WinRT: How does C++/WinRT get the list of implemented interfaces? (Raymond Chen)
• Exploring Stowage (Dane Vinson)
• Using SqlBulkCopy with .NET lists (Kris van der Mast)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Using Mockito in Flutter (Aseem Wangoo)
• Introducing Swift Async Algorithms (Tony Parker)
• Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases (Tracy Stampfli)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CodeNewbie S19:E8 – How being demoted could be the right career move (Kristina Lustig) (CodeNewbie Team)
• OnPodcast Episode 66: Unsupported Windows 11 PC watermark, Insider channels merge, Lapsus$ hack (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 299: Databases shouldn’t allow delete (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: Testing Starlink; U.S. tech worker migration; GeekWire Awards sneak peek (Todd Bishop)
• Coding After Work – Planning, designing, and coding a Blazor site from scratch part 17 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• React Native Radio 230 – We React to News (Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
• Your Daily Scrum: Does a Scrum Master Facilitate All of the Scrum Events? (Ryan Ripley)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to set up teams for success during an Agile transformation! | Daniel Lutz (Vasco Duarte)
• The Work Item #52 – Grow Your Career in Data Science, with Nick Wan, Director of Analytics for Cincinnati Reds (Den Delimarsky)
• New Maintainers Video: Mattias Karlsson (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Software Reliability Engineering – Hope is not a strategy (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 033 – What Every Developer Should Know about Web3 with Nader Dabit – Part 2 (David Isbitski)
• Random.Code() – Generator Performance in Rocks and Random.Code() – More Rocks Performance Fun (Jason Bock)
• Kevin Kirkus on Automated Testing Embedded Code – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 186 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Serverless Chats Episode #130: Serverless Framework v3 with Matthieu Napoli and Mariusz Nowak (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• Talk Python to Me #358: Understanding Pandas visually with PandasTutor (Michael Kennedy)
• Fragmented, The Software Podcast #225: Don’t Give Up – Persevere (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)

Community & Events

• Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Byron Tardif (David McCarter)
• Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Manish Bhattarai (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

• Maximizing work space with SSMS by using separate results tabs (Atif Shehzad)
• Get Ready for SQL Server 2022 (Greg Robidoux)
• MySql Auto-Increment (Paul Michaels)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• How to build a Good Vibes generator for Microsoft Teams (Lee Ford)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Windows Terminal v1.12.1073 adds following improvements (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous

• Retro Computing Museum In Ukraine Destroyed By Russian Bomb (BeauHD)
• How ‘Crazy Eddie’ Electronics Chain Scammed America (EditorDavid)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3439 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five: GitHub Advice, Azure Arc, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Wolf Report – March 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Code Maze Weekly #116 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• C# Digest Issue #408 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #13, 2022 – Fast F#, new Fantomas and FsDoc (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 344 – 27th Mar 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• The Overflow #118: What makes developers happy at work? (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• Reading List 288 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link