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Dew Drop – July 19, 2022 (#3725)

Top Links

‘Meet Windows 11’: New video series helps with basics, personalization, apps and tools (Athima Chansanchai)
How to Profile .NET Code Using the dotMemory Plugin in Rider (Sasha Ivanova)
Steve Sanderson: The future of Blazor and WebAssembly – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 202 (Jeffrey Palermo)
No, C# Is Not Dying. But No Language Lives Forever (Matthew MacDonald)
Windows UI Library 2.8 Release Notes (Microsoft Docs)

Web & Cloud Development

How to train and deploy in Azure ML (Bea Stollnitz)
Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Second Refresh Release and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 8.2 Fourth Refresh Release (Divya Cherukuri)
Meet Bun: A JavaScript Runtime for the Whole Dev Lifecycle (Jessica Wachtel)
Announcing the .NET 7 support for Azure functions in an isolated process in public preview (Melony Q.)
Use Azure AD workload identity for Kubernetes in a .NET Standard application (Paolo Salvatori)
ESLint v8.20.0 released (Brandon Mills)
Down the caching-hole: adventures in ‘HTTP caching and Faraday’ land (Svyatoslav Kryukov)
Confidential Containers: Verifiably secure computation in the cloud (Alyssa Hughes)
Edge URL Schemes (Eric Lawrence)
Go Passwordless with Stytch’s Email Magic Links (Brandon Huang & Cal Rueb)
A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering (Eric Burel)
How to Use the Flag Package in Go (Manoj Debnath)

Visual Studio & .NET

5 tricks every C# dev should know about LINQPad (Davide Bellone)
Base64 Encode and Decode in C# (Code Maze)
Null Conditional Operators in C# – ?. and ?[] (Jeremy Clark)
CRUD Operations In Windows Applications Using C# (Pushpendra Kumar Shukla)
Z3.Linq – .NET 6.0 LINQ bindings for the Z3 theorem prover from Microsoft Research (Howard van Rooijen)
C++ coroutine gotcha: Falling off the end of a function-level catch (Raymond Chen)
What are Guard Clauses in .NET (Karthik Chintala)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Advanced Installer 19.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
Codeless Testing: You’ve Got the Green Light—Now Start Planning for Success (Amy Reichert)
Naming conventions for design systems (Brad Frost)
GitHub Copilot: Can this ‘AI programmer’ really improve developer productivity? (Liam Tung)
How observability is redefining the roles of developers (Shai Almog)
elmah.io launches two GitHub Actions in the GitHub Marketplace (Thomas Ardal)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Secure Remote Debugging for IoT Connected Devices (Jonathan Williams)
Azure IoT Development Tools for Visual Studio Code (Chris Pietschmann)
Hybrid vs Native…What About a Third Option? (Max Lynch)

Screencasts & Videos

Unit Testing .NET MAUI Apps with xUnit (Gerald Versluis)
What’s new in Visual Studio for .NET MAUI developers? (James Montemagno)
MR Speaker Series: Ask Us Anything about MRTK3 Public Preview (Mixed Reality Toolkit Team)
Well-Architected – Creating context for your Advisor Recommendations | The Azure Enablement Show (David Blank-Edelman, Irina Zotova & Sven-Erik Nielsen)
Easily Scale Your Desktop Automation With Hosted RPA Bots | Microsoft Mechanics (Ashvini Sharma)
Is Microsoft Changing The Accessibility Game? (Xplay)
Coding After Work – The Source Code Generation Game with Steve Collins (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel (Maurice Cherry)
Software Defined Talk Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs (Matt Ray & Barton George)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 518: Karl Wiegers on Software Engineering Lessons (Gavin Henry)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design (Jeff Doolittle)
The 6 Figure Developer – Remix with Kent C. Dodds (John Callaway)
Syntax Podcast – STUMP’D Interview Coding Questions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 75 – How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil (Anton A. Chuvakin)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 464 – Code completion isn’t magic; it just feels that way (Eira May)

Community & Events

Shut It Down (Michael Szul)
Announcing the Test Base developer community on GitHub (Rama Shastri)
Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition (Rizel Scarlett)

Database

Identify and Correct a Large SQL Server Error Log (Jan Potgieter)
SQL Server Pop Quiz: A Key Lookup Without the Index (Brent Ozar)
MySQL: The Darker Side of ALTER TABLE (Lukas Vileikis)

PowerShell

How to Install Active Directory PowerShell Module (Michael Reinders)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19044.1862 to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Microsoft changes its policy against the sale of open source software in the Microsoft Store (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
Microsoft’s secret plastic Surface Duo leaks on eBay (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3513 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week (2022-29) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #65 (Sam Basu)
Reading Notes #515 (Frank Boucher)
The Wolf Report – July 19th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 18, 2022 (#3687)

Top Links

Migrating MR.Gestures from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI (Michael Rumpler)
What’s new with ML.NET Automated ML (AutoML) and tooling (Luis Quintanilla)
8 Very Useful Markup Extensions in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Using SQL Server Cursors with Entity Framework Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
All-In-One Search In Visual Studio Is Getting Slicker (Denizhan Yigitbas)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Build Micro Frontends Using Module Federation in Angular (Alisa Duncan)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 367 – How to move Azure Storage Blobs between containers (Azure Team)
The Top 12 Node.js Frameworks on GitHub️ (Andrew Baisden)
Debugging React Applications with React DevTools (Bhagya Vithana)
Copy To Clipboard in Blazor WebAssembly (Code Maze)
Advanced Animations Using CSS (Yosra Emad)
Blazor vs Razor: The Difference Solved (Jason Beres)
Introducing the TechDocs Addon Framework (Eric Peterson)
A Postman Resource Bot (Kin Lane)
useLayoutEffect Is a Powerful Hook (Leonardo Maldonado)
What GraphQL Is and Isn’t? (Mahibul Haque)
Stack READMEs in the Pulumi Service (Meagan Cojocar)
Explaining #FHIR Consent examples (John Moehrke)
Node v18.2.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Node v14.19.3 (LTS) (Richard Lau)

Visual Studio & .NET

3 ways to check the object passed to mocks with Moq in C# (Davide Bellone)
How to open and read XML files in C# .NET 6 (Sanjay)
Using MySQL in a Docker container with EF Core (Christian Nagel)
Writing a sort comparison function, part 1: basics (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

DevOps for Java on Azure (April Edwards)
Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2, 2020.0.2 and 2019.1.2 releases and May patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
DevOps 101: How to kick-start your DevOps initiative (Grant Fritchey)
How DevBuild Helped One Woman Get Back to Her Career Path (Hillary Cargo)
Configuring Jenkins in Azure and deploying with Octopus (Terence Wong)
Domain Modeling – Encapsulation (Steve Smith)
Rewriting git history simply with git-filter-repo (Andrew Lock)
Trust-Driven Development: Building Cognitive and Emotional Pillars (Ben Linders)
Why a bug fix should “always” include new tests (Matt Lacey)
Why You Should Care About Software Architecture (Pierre Pureur & Kurt Bittner)
Developer Happiness Is Not a Trend—Your Business Depends on It (Rita Manachi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Make your own Flutter corner banners with Super Banners (Matt Carroll)
Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4.1 For Mac And iPad (Oliver Haslam)
Develop Apple Apps: Learn Mac & iOS App Development, Xcode & Swift (SitePoint Team)
Boost the security of your app with the nonce field of the Play Integrity API (Oscar Rodriguez)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: ML Tools to Accelerate your work with Cassie Breviu (Cassie Breviu)
Building out a managed Kubernetes service is a bigger job than you think (Ryan Donovan)
How to use Confluence Cloud in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
RunAs Radio – SQL Q&A from SQL Server & Azure SQL Conference Spring 2022 (Richard Campbell)
Your Daily Scrum: What is Your Biggest Weakness as a Scrum Master? (Ryan Ripley)
What is Azure Machine Learning? | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer)
Implement MVVM and Databinding – .NET Maui Crash Course #4 (Gerald Versluis)
Practical AI Podcast – Active learning & endangered languages (Sarah Moeller, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 361 (Jason Bock)
8 Bits with Tessa Kriesel! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
TC39 and Upcoming Proposals for ECMAScript (PART 1) – JavaScript Jabber 532 (Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)

Community & Events

From MSDN Forums and Wiki Life to the new Tech Community Life: A New Era (Saeid Hasani)
Meet you in-person and digitally at Microsoft Build 2022! (Vesa Nopanen)

Database

Data Archiving Strategies for SQL Server (Mitch van Huuksloot)
How to import data into Apache Solr (Jack Wallen)
Getting Started with Query History and Table Designer in Azure Data Studio (Rajendra Gupta)

Miscellaneous

“How can you not love this job?” (Bill Gates)
Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller was a success for the modding community (Alex Cranz)
Accelerate sustainability progress and business growth with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability — starting June 1 (Alysa Taylor & Elisabeth Brinton)
Things to know about the new Outlook for Windows (Gabriel Valdez)
Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces (Richard Lawler)
Angry Birds comes to Minecraft (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3473 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – May 18th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI: Expand your desktop apps to support new features and deliver an integrated Windows 11 experience (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 11, 2022 (#3682)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2022 17.2 is now available! (Tim Heuer)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 4 (Daniel Roth)
.NET MAUI Release Candidate 3 (David Ortinau)
New accessibility features coming to Windows 11 (Jeff Petty & Carolina Hernandez)
Tips for Moving Your Xamarin Library to .NET MAUI (Luis Matos)
Announcing .NET 7 Preview 4 (Jeremy Likness)

Web & Cloud Development

Using ASP.NET Core MVC Value Providers With Minimal APIs (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 364 – How to work with your Azure apps in GitHub Codespaces (Azure Team)
Testing ASP.NET Core gRPC services in JetBrains Rider (Andrew Lock)
How to run Kubernetes clusters locally on Windows (Boemo Mmopelwa)
What’s Next: WebStorm 2022.2 Roadmap (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Easily Create a Fillable Form Using JavaScript Word Processor (Gunasekaran Thirumoorthy)
30 Days of SWA #09: Manage Inventory – With React (Chris Noring & Nitya Narasimhan)
Join Us For the Azure Static Web Apps Anniversary Event! (Nitya Narasimhan)
As Kubernetes Becomes Ubiquitous, VMware Aims to Solve New Challenges (Rita Manachi)
Improving Azure Key Vault Performance in ASP.NET Core By Up To 10x (Scott Sauber)
The Easiest Way to Animate WordPress Websites: BeBuilder + Lottie (SitePoint Sponsors)
Full-Stack Observability with Grafana and Azure Monitor (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Angular Async/Await: Why You Needed It & How To Use It (Svetloslav Novoselski)
Announcing the end of support for Internet Explorer 11 in the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) (Trivikram Kamat)
Cloudflare and StackBlitz partner to bring Cloudflare Workers to your browser (Tomek Sulkowski)
Aurelia updates for May 2022 (bigopon)
Exploring Kafka Producer’s Internals (Alex Falca)
Improving Performance With Distributed Caching (Assis Zang)
Of Ducks and Go Interface Misuse (Bart Bucknill)
Magical SVG Techniques (Cosima Mielke)
An update on our commitment to making the web more accessible for everyone (Liat Ben-Zur)
Enhanced 2FA experience for your npm account (Myles Borins)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Building a Task Sequence in Xamarin Forms/ MAUI (Part 2) (Rendy Del Rosario)
Configure CI pipeline with .NET MAUI Release candidate (for NuGets) (Andras Toth)
Adding Google Maps to your Uno Platform-WASM App (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Gains Most in Programming Language Popularity Index (David Ramel)
Using the when Keyword in C# While Handling Exceptions (Code Maze)
Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 4 (Jeremy Likness)
How to send Emails in C# .NET with FluentEmail and SendGrid (Néstor Campos)
.NET Framework May 2022 Security and Quality Rollup (Salini Agarwal)
MSVC’s STL Completes /std:c++20 (Casey Carter)
.NET May 2022 Updates – .NET 6.0.5, .NET 5.0.17 and, .NET Core 3.1.25 (Dominique Whittaker)
Import and Export File Streams with the Document Converter (Hadi)
A brief summary of the various versions of the Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL) (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Replace ClickOnce application with MSIX (Alex Marin)
Reskilling programs: Preparing non-tech employees for tech roles (Pluralsight)
How To Prevent Project Fails And Project Failure | Trello (Amy Rigby)
So, you want to be an architect? (Ben Brauer)
Crisis management (Eric Brechner)
Firewall Architecture in the Cloud (Jon Granger)
Solving the Build Queue Bottleneck Problem (Yegor Naumov)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

I/O Pinball Powered by Flutter and Firebase (Very Good Ventures Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Docker, with Scott Johnston (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
InfoQ Podcast: Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices with Holly Cummins (Holly Cummins)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Andrew Lock – ASP.NET, Blogging, Kubernetes, and more! (Dan Clarke)
Building Netflix Clone Flutter | Backend + Frontend | English (Codepur)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Getting a Scrum team back on the retrospectives train | Julie Wyman (Vasco Duarte)
Asp.Net Monsters #249 – Azure SQL VMs (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
How to make your message stand out in Microsoft Teams channels (Microsoft Teams)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 359 (Jason Bock)
Armchair Architects: So, you want to be an Architect? (Uli Homann, Eric Charran & David Blank-Edelman)
RunAs Radio – Backup and Ransomware with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Military Mail (Yasmine Di Giulio & Dale Parsan)

Community & Events

Microsoft finally lists all the Build 2022 sessions (Arif Bacchus)
Happy 10th Anniversary to Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Kevin Okemwa)
Join Microsoft Solitaire’s celebration of 32 years of fun (Steve Clarke)
Announcing Intro to Tech Skills sessions at Microsoft Build 2022! (MS Student Developer Team)
5 Questions with Twilio’s first-ever Chief Privacy Officer Amy Holcroft (Twilio)

Database

How to Encrypt and Decrypt CSV File in SSIS (Jan Potgieter)
Migrating A SQL IaaS Database To Azure SQL Using DMA (Data Migration Assistant) (Abdul Basith)
Don’t Treat SQL Like a Programming or Scripting Language. (Brent Ozar)
Table Functions in DAX: FILTER and ALL (Jessica Hill)
What’s New In Couchbase Server 7.1 (Jeff Morris)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Publish your app in the Microsoft Teams app store (Bob German)

PowerShell

Jeffrey Snover Claims Microsoft Demoted Him For Inventing PowerShell (BeauHD)

Miscellaneous

Reimagining the apps included with Windows 11 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Bill Gates helps open new vaccine manufacturing facility in Seattle area (Charlotte Schubert)
Introduction to artificial intelligence (Kumar Abhishek)
Microsoft joins list of companies that will help pay employee travel costs for abortions and other care and Bill Gates tests positive for COVID, says he has mild symptoms and is ‘fortunate to be vaccinated’ (Kurt Schlosser)
Announcing changes to Office Add-ins’ ExecuteFunction commands (Microsoft Office Team)
Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years (Mitchell Clark)
Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal (The Rust Security Response WG)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3468 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – May 11th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think (Russ Laraway) – Referral Link