Dew Drop – December 15, 2021 (#3579)

Top Links

• CoreWCF 0.4.0 Release (Matt Connew)
• Migrating WPF Applications to Web (Uno Platform Team)
• What’s New With Visual Studio 2022 (Joseph Guadagno)
• Machine Learning in Xamarin.Forms with ONNX Runtime (Mike Parker)
• Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience (Kayla Cinnamon)

Web & Cloud Development

• JSON in HTML Attributes With ASP.NET Core TagHelpers (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Posting AJAX Requests to ASP.NET Core MVC (Ricardo Peres)
• JavaScript security: Vulnerabilities and best practices (Anna Monus)
• Add Authentication to Your ASP.NET Core MVC Application (Andrea Chiarelli)
• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated: A Year in Review (Cindy O’Brien)
• Using Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (Mike Brind)
• Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics (Russ Cox)
• An introduction to GraphQL and how to use GraphQL APIs (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Masking elements with Clipping in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Examining Async Behavior in .NET Notebooks (Eric Potter)
• Visual Studio Release Notes – Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0.3 (Microsoft Docs)
• Collection Performance: How Do You LINQ? (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy (Julia Reid)
• Running your local dev environment inside a container — VS Code Remote + GitHub Codespaces (Lewis Holmes)
• 7 Ways to Find and Highlight Text in a PDF Using .NET C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
• .NET December 2021 Updates – 6.0.1, 5.0.13 and 3.1.22 (Sanket Kalaskar)
• How to Check if a StringBuilder Is Empty (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Treat integration as strategic to your business (Martin Fowler)
• Azure DevOps (and Azure DevOps Server) and the log4j vulnerability (Gloridel Morales)
• Talk: Scalable architecture from the ground up (Oren Eini)
• Why CI/CD Continues to Evolve (B. Cameron Gain)
• Using GitHub’s security features to help identify Log4j exposure in your codebase (Brittany O’Shea)
• How Disrupting Your Daily Routine Can Actually Make You More Productive (Daniel Kenitz)
• How Mindfulness Makes Savvy Software Developers More Powerful (Eve Turzillo)
• GitHub Release Improved Developer Flow at Universe Event (Matt Saunders)
• Jobs to be done: A useful framework for driving customer value (Hugh North, Carolyn Bufford Funk, Ph.D. & Veronika Sipeeva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Integrating C library in a desktop Flutter app using Dart FFI (Igor Kharakhordin)
• 5 Examples of the new Ionic 6 Bottom Sheet Modal (Simon Grimm)
• Arduino library for Azure IoT (Wellington Duraes)
• Rebuilding our guide to app architecture (Manuel Vicente Vivo)
• 8 Simple Tips for Using an API in a Mobile App (Manikandan Selvaraj)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 438 | AWS’s Outage, Microsoft Azure News & Microsoft 365 Developer Updates (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 405 – Azure Active Directory’s Investments in Reliability and Resilience (Sujit D’Mello)
• Getting Certified in Azure – Adventures in .NET 099 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• Asp.Net Monsters – Getting started with .NET and Kafka (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
• The CSS Podcast 055: DevTools Mini Series – Layout (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• RunAs Radio – Deprecating Basic Auth with Greg Taylor (Richard Campbell)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 324 (Jason Bock)
• Developer Developer Developer Videos now live (Rob Miles)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 334: Jordan Tigani on data intensive applications (Brandon Whichard)

Community & Events

• Nerd Nite #102: Colors, Smallpox, Toy Companies (Nerd Nite Philly Team)
• Season of Docs announces results of 2021 program (Kassandra Dhillon & Erin McKean)
• Where to Celebrate Kwanzaa in Philadelphia for 2021 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Don’t Use SQL Server to Send Emails. (Brent Ozar)
• Support for Concurrent Index Creation in Indexing Service (Amit Kulkarni)
• SQL SERVER – Script to Estimate Compression (Pinal Dave)
• Build Oracle Graph on Docker (Part 2/2) (Ryota Yamanaka)
• SQL JOIN Types with Examples (Jim Evans)
• SQL Managed Instances – Cross Instance? (Arun Sirpal)
• Couchbase Server 7.0.2 Enforce TLS, HSTS & Enforce IP Address Family (Ian McCloy)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Important update for the Microsoft Teams Android app is now available (Microsoft Teams Team)

Miscellaneous

• Collaborative comments in Power Automate (Rakesh Krishnan)
• LastPass is going to become an independent company (Jay Peters)
• Minecraft Dungeons First Seasonal Adventure is Here with the Free Cloudy Climb Update (Mike Nelson)
• The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2021 (Verge Staff)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3375 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Wolf Report – December 15th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, 6th Ed. (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link