Month: November 2022

Top Links

• Introducing the Microsoft Graph Python SDK now available for public preview (Isaac Vargas Chacon)
• Updates to Windows App Management in Intune with Winget | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman & Jason Githens)
• When to use gRPC vs GraphQL (Loren Sands-Ramshaw)
• Brady Gaster: Orleans – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 221 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Replicating an Invoice Page UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Web & Cloud Development

• Automate your API deployments with Azure API Management and Bicep modules (Adrian Hall)
• Preact vs. React (Prashant Yadav)
• Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS 1.0: AWSX, EKS, and AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda SnapStart with Pulumi (Daniel Bradley)
• Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists (Daniel Schwarz)
• WebStorm 2022.3: New UI Preview, Vue and Angular Improvements, and Vitest Support (David Watson)
• Local Development with the Azure Static Web Apps CLI (David M. Ginn)
• Alba for Effective ASP.Net Core Integration Testing (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Testing your ASP.NET Core application – using a real database (Josef Ottosson)
• DevExtreme Multi-Purpose UI Components — Angular, React, Vue, and jQuery (Vlada S.)
• Testing static types in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Examples for calling the GitHub GraphQL API (with ProjectsV2) (Rob Bos)
• Pointer compression in Oilpan (Anton Bikineev & Michael Lippautz)
• Close out – 30 Days of Microsoft Graph Challenge – 30th November (Ayca Bas)
• DS Server: Announcing Distributed OAuth Authentication for Scalable Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
• Stop waiting for GitHub pages to build using overrides (Chris Heilmann)
• How To Easily Understand TypeScript Generics (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Are You API-First? Here Are 4 Implementations (Joyce)
• Microsoft Graph Python SDK – Public Preview (Lee Stott)
• To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s REST API with API versioning (Tim Rogers)
• Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium (Hazel Weakly)
• Changes to Twilio’s Messaging API Response Headers have been Cancelled (Twilio)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: Raise synchronous events using Timer (and not a While loop) (Davide Bellone)
• Having fun with C# 11 raw string literals (Jiri Cincura)
• Introducing C#11: Raw string literals (Anthony Giretti)
• What kind of caller diagnostic information can I get from exceptions thrown by C++/WinRT and wil?, C++20 edition and The case of the application that used thread local storage it never allocated (Raymond Chen)
• Floating-Point Types in C# – Double vs Float vs Decimal (Code Maze)
• How the new VSCode XML extension improves developer experience (Mohit Suman, Angelo Zerr & Jessica He)
• A Tour of 4 MSVC Backend Improvements (Sy Brand)
• Top 15 VS Code Extensions Every Developer Should Know (Nipuni Arunodi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• MSIX App Attach Step-by-Step Guide: How to set-up MSIX App Attach (Alex Marin)
• How to Set Up an Environment Variable in MSIX to Directory and File Paths (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Experimenting with Federation and Migrating Accounts (Kris Nova)

Screencasts & Videos

• Coding After Work – Building “Next Tech Event” using Blazor and RavenDB Part 13 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Code reuse with .NET MAUI with Sam Basu | .NET MAUI Hack day 2022 (SSW TV)
• The Download: GitHub Universe Recap, .NET Conference Overview, Our Anniversary and more (Christina Warren)
• Fluent UI Insights: APIs in v9. Slots, JSX children & triggers (Fluent UI Team)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Managing an API as a Product with Deepa Goyal (Deepa Goyal)
• Revision Path – Andrew Bass Jr. (Part 1 of 2) (Maurice Cherry)
• Scrum Master Toolkit Podcast – How to help an overwhelmed team deliver! Flow lessons for Scrum teams | Elly Griffith-Ward and Scrum Master Toolkit Podcast – The impediment that kills Agile adoption in many organizations, and what to do about it | Elly Griffith-Ward (Vasco Duarte)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Marsha Acker – Facilitation and Developing Agile Leaders – BAI 2022 (Bob Nadler)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 542 – Serverless Limitations (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 99 – Google Workspace Security: from Threats to Zero Trust (Anton Chuvakin)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 509 – From Twitter Bootstrap to VP of Engineering at Patreon, a chat with Utkarsh Srivastava (Ben Popper)
• The Changelog – Free Heroku EOL, Stable Diffusion 2.0, Twitter SRE explains why it stays up, Git Notes & Joel Lord (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• AGL 288: Engineering Careers with Jeff Perry (John Rouda)
• Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 58: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Trader Joe’s Holiday Shopping List (Trader Joe’s Team)
• Fragmented: The Software Podcast 239: Require PR Reviews with CODEOWNERS (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)

Community & Events

• Coming Back To Microsoft (Den Delimarsky)
• 20 Pop-Up Holiday Bars & Festively Decorated Restaurants in Philly for 2022 (Visit Philly)
• Highlights for the Global AI Student Conference (Henk Boelman)
• Join us for Windows Server Summit 2022 (Janine Patrick)
• Redgate 100 Spotlight: Community Heroes (Kerry Ramsbotham)
• Sex, Drugs, and Bipolar – A Novel (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• Strategies to Improve SQL Server Storage Performance (Joseph D’Antoni)
• New In SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL: XEvent Performance Metrics (Mitchell Sternke)
• Managing delays in distributed systems with RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• #PowerAutomate – Flow to use Open Trivia Database questions in a Microsoft Teams bot 3/N (Bruno Capuano)
• Adding a custom content provider to Viva Learning with Microsoft Graph (Matteo Pagani)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Things I Learned #10: The Mac Terminal is talking back (Michael Eaton)

Miscellaneous

• Active Directory Explorer v1.52, Contig v1.82, and Sysmon v14.13 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Comcast’s Sneaky Broadcast TV Fee Hits $27, Making a Mockery of Advertised Rates (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25252 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1020 and 22623.1020 (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3596 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2022-48) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #82 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #532 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #740 (Mary Lou)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 7, Blazor, and EF Core 7, 7th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link