Dew Drop – February 18, 2022 (#3625)

Top Links

• 7 Improvements You Might Have Missed in .NET 6 (Matthew MacDonald)
• Announcing .NET 7 Preview 1 and Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 1 (Jeremy Likness)
• Line-staging (Interactive Staging) (Taysser Gherfal)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 1 (Daniel Roth)
• Foldable Navigation component update (Andrei Cirja)

Web & Cloud Development

• A Full-Stack Web App Using Blazor WebAssembly and GraphQL: Part 2 (Ankit Sharma)
• Apply JWT Access Tokens and Refresh Tokens in ASP.NET Core Web API 6 (Aram Tchekrekjian)
• Announcing the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5 (Cindy O’Brien)
• Build an Interactive Serverless Voice and Messaging Application using Twilio and AWS (Dan Bartlett)
• Microsoft Mechanics video: Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Database for High Performance & Scalability (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
• Scaffold Your App: Angular CLI vs Ignite UI App Builder (Zdravko Kolev)
• Cross-Browser support with Cross-Origin isolation (Sam Verschueren)
• Postman Now Supports OpenAPI 3.1 (Ankit Saini)
• Cloudentity Adds GraphQL Support to Its Authorization Platform (Kevin Sundstrom)
• Breaking changes in the Microsoft Graph Tasks API (beta) (Microsoft Graph Team)
• Announcing new features in Service Fabric managed clusters (Mike Craft)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Develop an EMI Calculator WinUI Application [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• Xamarin.Forms UI/UX Challenges – Micuna Food – Part 1 and Part 3 (Daniel Angel Monettelli L.)
• .NET MAUI – How to use with Mac (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Splash Screen in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• More MAUI bits! (Steven Thewissen)
• All-in-One .NET MAUI App Project Template (Vijay Anand E G)
• Windows App SDK deployment guide for unpackaged apps – Windows app development (Windows Dev Docs Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Emaroo 4.9.0 – Support for Visual Studio Code 1.64 (Roland Weigelt)
• #OpenCV – Access a local camera in F# (Bruno Capuano)
• Pattern Matching in C# (Jessica Hill)
• How to Create and Publish a NuGet Package Using Visual Studio (Muhammed Saleem)
• COM asynchronous interfaces, part 4: Doing work while waiting for the asynchronous operation (Raymond Chen)
• Raw string literals in C# (Steve Fenton)
• C#11 Parameter Null Checking (Wade Gausden)
• MailMerge: Rendering Conditional Table Rows (Bjoern Meyer)
• Use a .NET Worker Service to run background services (David Grace)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• JetBrains YouTrack Adds Gantt Charts (Kay Ewbank)
• How to automate the MSI building using GitHub Actions (Alex Marin)
• 10 Wireframe examples for mobile apps and websites (Sketch Team)
• Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack (Carlos Valdez)
• 6 Ways Leaders Can Remain Flexible During Chaotic Times (Genevieve Michaels)
• The Problem With Passion: Not Everyone Who Works for You Loves their Job, and that’s OK (Kim Scott)
• Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities (Tiferet Gazit)
• Top 3 Reasons to Use PreEmptive (Michelle Pruitt)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Getting Started with Ionic 6 (Mike Hartington)
• .NET Developer? You’re an IoT Developer Too! (Rob Lauer)
• Feature highlight: IL2CPP runtime performance improvements in Unity 2021.2 (Josh Peterson)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – GDAL and PDAL with Howard Butler (Rob Irving)
• .NET Core Podcast – A Few Things I Wish I Knew Before Writing .NET On Linux (Jamie Taylor)
• Technology & Friends – Brent Ozar on What Every Developer Needs to Know About Databases (David Giard)
• The Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler (Scott Hanselman)
• Rocket 373: Belated Razzlekhan Reactions (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Azure Podcast Episode 412 – Azure Database for Postgres (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 028 – Serverless on AWS with Julian Wood – Part 2 (David Isbitski)
• Azure Architecture Center by Microsoft Regional Director Adam Cogan (SSW TV)
• .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 107: .NET MAUI Preview … Number 13! (Matt Soucoup, James Montemagno & David Ortinau)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Extensions by Mads Kristensen (Leslie Richardson & Mads Kristensen)
• Agile Book Club: Psychological Safety (with Gitte Klitgaard) (James Shore)
• SQL Server 2022 Storage Engine Capabilities (Ep. 4) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Pless)
• How to use Polling in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
• Creating a Source Generator for InstantAPIs (Jason Bock)
• Perspectives in Leadership: Leveraging data to enhance the developer experience (Pluralsight)
• Asp.Net Monsters Episode 240 – Mermaid Diagrams on GitHub (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 416 – An algorithm that optimizes for avoiding ennui (Ben Popper)
• .NET Tooling Community Standup – .NET Performance sneak peek! (Stephen Toub, Kendra Havens & Jordan Matthiesen)
• Adaptive Cards community call – February 2022 (JP Roca)
• Windows Weekly 764: The Rat From Punxsutawney (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 344: Positive sum but not for everyone (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• A Look at 20 Years of Microsoft .NET: My First Enterprise Application and More! (David McCarter)
• Garage project Journal celebrates its anniversary with folders to keep you organized (Renee Malone)

Database

• SQL Server Replication as a tool to migrate very large databases (Sonali Solanki)
• How To Install SQLite On Windows 11 (Mahesh Chand)
• SQL Monitor’s new Current Activity page (Matthew Chappelow)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint (Microsoft 365 Platform Team)

Miscellaneous

• Choosing Your First DAW | Music-Making for Developers (Alan Mendelevich)
• Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account (Tom Warren)
• Want to run Android apps on Windows 11? You need 8GB RAM but should have 16GB, says Microsoft (Liam Tung)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3413 (Chris Alcock)
• AzUpdate S04E05: Azure Kubernetes Service, CIS Certification, Windows Server, and burstable disks. (Jay Destro)
• Code Maze Weekly #111 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Collective #699 (Mary Lou)
• The Wolf Report – February 18th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.02.18 (Jay Gordon)

The Geek Shelf

 Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3: Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading (Shakti Tanwar) – Referral Link