Dew Drop – February 28, 2022 (#3631)

Top Links

• .NET GitHub Actions (David Pine)
• New Azure for Operators solutions and services built for the future of telecommunications (Jason Zander)
• PyTorch-DirectML: Preview Release 2 (Adele Parsons)
• Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI iOS app in Azure DevOps (Andreas Nesheim)
• Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 182 – Chris Patterson on Messaging systems with MassTransit (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

• Advanced techniques around ASP.NET Core Users and their claims (Jon P Smith)
• New to Azure Stack HCI? Check out Microsoft Learn! (Lisa Clark)
• Getting started with Azure Container Apps (Michael Ridland)
• Custom and System Properties in Azure Service Bus Messages using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus (Paul Michaels)
• Azure Data Explorer Articles and Videos (David Giard)
• How To Trap Focus in a Modal in Vue 3 (Thomas Findlay)
• #30DaysOfPWA #12 – Caching Your App Data (Aaron Gustafson)
• #30DaysOfPWA #13 – Synchronizing App Data in the Background and #30DaysOfPWA #14 – Notifying Users Of Updates (Maxim Salnikov)
• ESLint v8.10.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• How To Capture Data from a Custom Events in Bot Framework Composer (Jamie Maguire)
• Announcing SpaacedOut Gem Jekyll Theme v1.3.x (Jason Gaylord)
• Microsoft Edge could get a hub to help you organize your PWAs (Kevin Okemwa)
• Why and How to Use Webpack and Babel with Vanilla JS (Nishani Dissanayake)
• Customize Auth0 Universal Login with Auth0 CLI (Will Johnson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Properly Manage Background Tasks in Xamarin Forms (Damien Tohin Doumer Kake)
• Create a Hyperlink UI in .NET MAUI Preview 13 (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Configuration in .NET MAUI (appsettings.json) (James Montemagno)
• With Windows App SDK Update Coming, Microsoft Lauds Growing Ecosystem (David Ramel)
• Accelerator keys for ContentDialog Buttons (Fons Sonnemans)
• Advanced Databinding Part 4 – Bind . (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# 11 is Coming! 5 Features that will Blow your Mind (Dotnetsafer)
• Global using Directive in C# 10 (Mahesh Chand)
• How can I monitor changes to the reference count of a C++/WinRT object? (Raymond Chen)
• Adding Attachments to Adobe PDF Documents using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Creating a VS Code Extension (Bruno Sonnino)
• Differences Between != And Is Not Operators in C# and DateTime Format In C# (Code Maze)
• Global usings in C# 10 (Gunnar Peipman)
• What’s new with C# 11? (Maourice Gonzalez)
• Enabling High-Quality Code in .NET (Milan Milanović)
• Comparing objects with disparate members in Fluent Assertions (Dennis Doomen)
• PriorityQueue In .NET 6 (Vicente Gerardo Guzman Lucio)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Choose to Remember the Beauty in Life (J.D. Meier)
• Performance optimizations in production (Oren Eini)
• What is UI design? And why is it important? (Sketch Team)
• Why the Bug Tracker (Ted Neward)
• Do you work on interesting problems? (Al Tenhundfeld)
• A Microsoft exec says tech, not people, makes employees really happy (Chris Matyszczyk)
• Feeling Lost? Here’s A Roundup Of 7 Trello Resources To Bring Clarity To Your Boards (Sam Milbrath)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Emoji Only Text Entry on Android (j2inet)
• Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size (Simon Schiller)
• Arduino Fan Builds the World’s Smallest Space Invaders Game (David Cassel)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Leading Beyond Change – Leadership for New Ways of Working (Audree Tara Sahota & Michael K. Sahota)
• Merge Conflict 295: Two ways to do the same thing (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to help a “hands-off” PO to engage more with the Scrum team | Usman Kotwal and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to adapt to a new Scrum team without pushing them | Lorna Mason & Jon Lawrence (Vasco Duarte)
• On .NET: ASP.NET Core in .NET 7 Preview 1 – What you need to know (James Montemagno & Dan Roth)
• The AI Show: Ep 52 | Analyze unstructured docs and more with Azure Form Recognizer (Ayşegül & Vinod Kurpad)
• Coding After Work – RavenDB: a really boring database! with Dejan Miličić (Jessica Engstrom & Jimmy Engstrom)
• Webinar: Source Generators with Stefan Polz (Andrea Brezinova)
• PPP 348 | How to Work Less Hours and Get More Done, with author Joe Sanok (Andy Kaufman)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode 16 : Music Tech Pioneers: Propellerhead : ReCycle to Reason ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Ernst Nathorst-Böös)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Build Software Faster with These Productivity APIs (Avinash Choudhary)
• The Changelog – Making the command line glamorous (Toby Padilla, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 413 – Thinking Cloud Native (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 029 – Real World CDK with Matt Coulter (David Isbitski)
• The Amp Hour #579 – ADC Chip Design with Anthony Wall (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 345 (Jason Bock)
• Serverless Chats Episode #126: Teaching What You Learn with Tomasz Łakomy (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
• AGL 249: Catching up with Steve Yacovelli (John Rouda)
• Windows Weekly 765: Squig Glies (Paul Thurrott)
• 8 Bits with Jess Garson! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)

Community & Events

• dotNetDave Rocks The Philly Code Camp 2022 and dotNetDave Supports Ukraine! (David McCarter)
• Why Swift Creator Chris Lattner Stepped Down From Its Core Team This Week (EditorDavid)
• Celebrating 10 years of Raspberry Pi with a new museum exhibition (Matt Richardson)
• Gender Differences In Code Contributions (Sue Gee)
• Code.Org Launches Dance Party (Kay Ewbank)
• Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer and Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer (Spotify Engineering)

Database

• SQL Managed Instance closing the gap on SQL Server application compatibility – Part 2 (Niko Neugebauer)
• SQL SERVER – Find Missing Identity Values (Pinal Dave)
• The path forward for SQL Server analytics (SQL Server Team)
• RavenDB: Domain Modeling and Data Persistency (Oren Eini)
• An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB (Phil Factor)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2022 (Microsoft Teams Team)
• CLI for Microsoft 365 v5.0 (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• Surface Duo 2 gets touch, animation and camera improvements with new Feb update (Kareem Anderson)
• M1 Mac virtualization: Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Fusion (Michael Niehaus)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3419 (Chris Alcock)
• Top stories from the #AzureDevOps #community for 2022.25.02 are here! (April Edwards)
• Code Maze Weekly #112 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The Wolf Report – February 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Windows news recap: Notepad RichEdit enhancements, WhatsApp testing Message Reactions, and more (Jack Wilkinson)
• F# Weekly #9, 2022 – Stop Russian aggression against Ukraine! (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #404 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Friday Five: GitHub Codespaces, Android Emulator, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Overflow #114: Work estimates that account for friction, continual learning, and the coders inspired by Tumblr (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

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