Dew Drop – February 10, 2022 (#3618)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Twenty Years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How the Angular Compiler Works (Alex Rickabaugh)
• How is windowing better with the Windows App SDK? | One Dev Question (Andrew Clinick)
• Flutter in 2022: strategy and roadmap (Tim Sneath)
• A Deep Dive Into Uno Extensions with Nick Randolph (Matt Mattei)

Web & Cloud Development

• .NET 6 Web API on Lambda with a Custom Runtime (Bryan Hogan)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 352 – How to trigger an Azure Function from Azure Cosmos DB (Azure Team)
• Book Review: Testing JavaScript Applications (Ian Elliot)
• OpenAPI for JavaScript Azure Functions (Aaron Powell)
• Saving Bot Activities in Azure SQL Database (Abhiman Tiwari)
• Using Azure Active Directory B2C with .NET (Christian Nagel)
• How to Make CSS Slanted Containers (Dave Seidman)
• MHTML in Chromium (Eric Lawrence)
• A CRUD Operation Demo With Blazor WebAssembly (.NET 6) + Strawberry Shake GraphQL Client + MudBlazor UI + GraphQL API (Naveen Bommidi)
• Send Emails using C# .NET with Azure Functions and SendGrid Bindings (Niels Swimberghe)
• Add Responsive-Friendly Enhancements to `details` with `details-utils` (Zach Leatherman)
• CRUD API + Complexity = Death by a 1000 Papercuts (Derek Comartin)
• Announcing the public preview of Update Plans (Fraser Waters)
• Why You Need An API Gateway To Manage Access To Your APIs (Armand Sultantono)
• Collaborate in Real Time with Anyone in the World Using Public Workspaces (Ramji Enamuthu)
• Calling REST APIs From the IDE (Sameer Doshi)
• Showing and hiding content in Adaptive Cards (Tomasz Poszytek)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• With New Windows Desktop Support, Flutter Throws a Dart at .NET MAUI (David Ramel)
• Xamarin.Forms – Sharing Files And Documents (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Catch Logger (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Getting Started With Brushes in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Different Ways to Initialize Arrays in C# (Code Maze)
• ReSharper 2022.1 Roadmap and Rider 2022.1 Roadmap (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How can I find out which processor architectures are supported via emulation by the current system? (Raymond Chen)
• Diagnosing and Fixing MediatR Container Issues (Jimmy Bogard)
• Build Your First .NET Core Application with MongoDB Atlas (Nic Raboy)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Using the Four Key Metrics to assess an infrastructure platform (Martin Fowler)
• Continuous Testing with Selenium and Azure DevOps (Travis Ray)
• Synthetic testing: A definition and how it compares to Real User Monitoring (Anna Monus)
• New in Sketch: Introducing Corners, improving segmented controls in the Inspector and more control over prefix placement when exporting (Sketch Team)
• How to Get Stuff Done: Never Stop Learning (Kim Scott)
• Writing Secret 4: Effective Nonfiction Writers Cycle Between Writing, Thinking, & Learning (Johanna Rothman)
• Test Studio Step-by-Step: Running Tests Remotely (Peter Vogel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter 2.10 Brings Stable Windows Support (Sergio De Simone)
• Microsoft looks to preempt Activision-Blizzard objections with new app store principles (Todd Bishop)
• Jetpack Compose 1.1 is now stable! (Florina Muntenescu)
• Microsoft hints it will open up Xbox store, changing its entire business model (Tom Warren)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Asp.Net Monsters #239 – Changing Storage Providers in Azure Durable Functions (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
• AzureFunBytes Episode 67 – What’s New With @AzureCosmosDB? (Jay Gordon)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 61: Software Is For People (Ben Nadel)
• C# for Beginners | Full 2-hour course (Scott Hanselman & Kendra Havens)
• Better Parallel Code with C# Channels With Jeremy Clark (Kevin Griffin & Drew)
• “C# 10” with Mads Torgerson & Dustin Campbell (Sam Nasr)
• How do I access Windows APIs with NET5 and the Windows App SDK? | One Dev Question (Angela Zhang)
• How to make and receive calls in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Syntax Podcast – Creator of Wordle – Josh Wardle (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Exploring Source Generation for Logging | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Maryam Ariyan)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast #033: Break All the Rules and Win Your Career with Tammy Alvarez (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• Radical Candor S4, Mini Episode 2: The “Um Story” (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
• What is the Xbox Adaptive Controller? | One Dev Question (Kaitlyn Jones)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• You can do more with OneNote for the web and in Teams (Chetna Das)
• Microsoft Teams performance improvements reduce power consumption in meetings by up to 50% (Robert Aichner)
• Sneak peek on Microsoft Metaverse: Mixed reality meeting experience in Mesh for Microsoft Teams (Vesa Nopanen)

PowerShell

• PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA – Variable Fundamentals (Alejandro Cobar)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 365 Enterprise: February 2022 updates (Christian Montoya)
• Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres on Disney Plus on May 25th (Jon Porter)
• What’s the best student laptop? We asked students (Monica Chin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3407 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• The Wolf Report – February 10th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

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