Month: November 2022

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 Performance Enhancements 17.4 (Nayana Srikanth)
• Test Uno Platform WebAssembly apps on mobile devices using Dev Tunnels (Martin Zikmund)
• Build and publish Visual Studio extensions with GitHub Actions (Thomas Ardal)
• Programmatically Accessing App Settings from Logic Apps Expressions (Kent Weare)
• The new .NET 7.0 IParsable interface (Patrick Smacchia)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Use an Angular Pivot Table Component in Your Web Application (Joel Parks)
• Angular 15 Adds Standalone APIs (Kay Ewbank)
• You Can Render Anything In Angular (Ben Nadel)
• How to create an API Gateway using Azure API Management (Davide Bellone)
• How to Validate URLs in JavaScript (Benjamin Semah)
• How to Internationalize Numbers with JavaScript (David Walsh)
• Building The OpenSpartan Data Browser (Den Delimarsky)
• A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: JavaScript (Part 2) (Cristian Díaz)
• .NET 7 Adds Aggressive Garbage Collection for Kubernetes (Jonathan Allen)
• A responsive striped CSS gradient inspired by 80s VHS tapes (Salma Alam-Naylor)
• 7 VS Code Extensions for React Developers (Nipuni Arunodi)
• Announcement: Raygun Launches Public API (Zheng Li)
• Forcing the Lambda Service to Warm 100 Execution Environments for your Function (Bryan Hogan)
• Creating FHIR Objects Using Power Apps and The Custom Connector FHIRPower (Francisco Ruiz)
• OpenAPI Does What Swagger Don’t (Melinda Gutermuth)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Using .NET MAUI to Build a Mobile App (Someleze Diko)
• .NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – 7 – Unit Testing (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• CSharpRepl Brings REPL Superpowers To C# (Nikos Vaggalis)
• What kind of caller diagnostic information can I get from exceptions thrown by C++/WinRT and wil? (Raymond Chen)
• 7 Debugging features to master in Visual Studio to make your life easier (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• How to Execute Stored Procedures With EF Core 7 (Ivan Matec)
• “Use always a StringBuilder” – Internet myths (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Build an MSI that installs per-user or per-machine and What is a PFX Certificate and how to generate it? (Radu Popescu)
• How to build a landing page in Sketch (Sketch Team)
• In Defence of Squash Commits (Ian Griffiths)
• Understanding Color and Accessibility (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• App Bundles for Google TV and Android TV (Josh Wentz)
• Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub (Azure Team)
• Introducing Camera Viewfinder (Francesco Romano)
• Perception 1.0: Expanding the toolbox for synthetic data (Jonathan Hogins, Steve Borkman, Mohsen Kamalzadeh & Cameron Sun)

Screencasts & Videos

• Live Coding – Uno Platform WASM App Manifest (Martin Zikmund)
• Asp.Net Monsters #261 – Ignoring files in git without the .gitignore (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
• Miss Excel’s tips for creating viral social videos (Kat Norton)

Podcasts

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to ace the Scrum Master role, even if you don’t have any technical knowledge! | Caterina Reinker (Vasco Duarte)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 539 – React use() hook and Async Server Components Proposal (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 98 – How to Cloud IR or Why Attackers Become Cloud Native Faster? (Anton Chuvakin)
• The Changelog – Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Partner Showcase: Building AvePoint MyHub with John Peluso (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• AGL 287: Changing the Game with Lucy Chow (John Rouda)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 508 – Here’s what it’s like to develop VR at Meta (Ritika Puri)

Community & Events

• Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Annanya Vedala and Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Dev Vaghani and Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Prnika Bakshi and Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate:  Salman Chishti and Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Wei Song Teo (Doug Masuda)
• New US Headquarters: Welcome to the Innovations Floor (Bjoern Meyer)
• A Philly Holiday Tradition: Macy’s Christmas Light Show Is Back for 2022 (Visit Philly)
• Discover the best developer blogs on any tech stack (Blogging for Devs)

Database

• SQL COUNT and SQL COUNT DISTINCT in SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
• Backing up MySQL Part 4: mydumper (Lukas Vileikis)
• SQL Server 2022: Azure AD Authentication (Dennes Torres)
• I Migrated from a Postgres Cluster to Distributed SQLite with LiteFS (Kent C. Dodds)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Things I Learned #8: Open and the Mac Terminal (Michael Eaton)

Miscellaneous

• 5 of my all-time favorite books (Bill Gates)
• Black Friday 2022: Microsoft unveils offers on Surface and Xbox (Microsoft)
• Windows 8.1 Support Ends January 10 (msmash)
• Give a great first technical talk – Table of Contents (Matt Lacey)
• How to verify your GitHub account on Mastadon (Santosh Hari)
• Microsoft is adding a handy VPN indicator to the Windows 11 taskbar (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
• Domino’s is building an all-electric pizza delivery fleet with Chevy Bolts (Umar Shakir)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3591 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week (2022-47) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #81 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #531 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link