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Dew Drop – November 16, 2021 (#3560)

Top Links

Where Are My Favorite Extensions in Visual Studio 2022? (Leslie Richardson)
Highlights from Git 2.34 (Taylor Blau)
Announcing PostSharp 6.10 RC: Support for .NET 6.0, Visual Studio 2022, and C# 10 (Gael Fraiteur)
.NET Community Toolkit – A collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform (Community Toolkit Team)
In the Jungle of .NET Decompilers (Patrick Smacchia)

Web & Cloud Development

When to refactor a large Blazor component into separate, smaller ones? (Jon Hilton)
Let’s upgrade my main site and podcast to .NET 6 LTS (Scott Hanselman)
JavaScript Async – Returning Promises (Ian Elliot)
Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET 6.0! (Avanindra Paruchuri)
Using Multiple Databases in ASP.NET Core via Entity Framework Core (Marinko Spasojevic)
Blazor Binding Support Multiple Options For – ‘Select’ HTML Element Or ‘InputSelect’ Blazor Component [.NET 6.0 Feature] (Naveen Bommidi)
Scaffolding Static Web Apps (Aaron Powell)
Functions Now Accept Outputs (Anton Tayanovskyy)
How Open Systems uses Microsoft tools to improve security maturity (Emma Jones)
Powerful Terminal And Command-Line (CLI) Tools For Modern Web Development (Louis Lazaris)
eBay Event Notification Platform: Listener SDKs (Lokesh Rishi)
Top five actions engineers should take based on the OWASP Top 10 2021 security updates (Wayne Haber)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Drag-and-Drop Support in Xamarin.Forms: An Overview (Thangam Nallasamy)
Dealing with the System UI on iOS in Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, 6th Ed (Packt) (I Programmer)
New dependency injection features in .NET 6: Exploring .NET Core 6 – Part 10 (Andrew Lock)
What’s New for C#, F# and Visual Basic in .NET 6 (David Ramel)
C# Tip: Use a SortedSet to avoid duplicates and sort items (Davide Bellone)
ReSharper C++ 2021.3 EAP: Coding Assistance Features (Elvira Mustafina)
Dependency Hell: Past and Future (Dennes Torres)
.NET 6 now available for RHEL and OpenShift (Mauricio “Maltron” Leal)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Prototyping from A to Z: best practices for successful prototypes (Sketch Team)
Design Systems are for user interfaces (Brad Frost)
Building confidence in a decision (Martin Tingley, Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, Michael Lindon & Colin McFarland)
Building a QA process for your deep learning pipeline in practice (Tobias Kupek)
Test Studio Step-by-Step: Creating Tests (Peter Vogel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter: Hit testing outside parent bounds with `defer_pointer` package (Shawn Blais)
Announcing package support for DartPad (Zoey Fan)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Next.js 12 (Wes Bos)
CodeNewbie S18:E2 – What are some essential skills you’ll need to be successful on your coding journey (Fernando Doglio) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Roneka Patterson (Maurice Cherry)
The Stack Overflow Podcast 393: 250 words per minute on a chorded keyboard? Only if you can think that fast. (Ryan Donovan)
.NET Conf – Migrating Web Apps to Azure App Services (Gaurav Seth & Kristina Halfdane)
.NET Conf – Blazor Azure B2C Authentication and Authorization (Michael Washington)
.NET Conf – Accelerate .NET to Azure with GitHub Actions… Again? (Isaac Levin)
On .NET – OData Batching with ASP.NET Core (Jeremy Likness & Hassan Habib)
.NET MAUI Preview 10 Update: Time For You To Get Started! (Gerald Versluis)
James Shore on the Art of Agile Development – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 167 (Jeffrey Palermo)
.NET Conf 2021 – .NET Everywhere – Windows, Linux, and Beyond (Scott Hanselman)
Asp.Net Monsters #231 – Azure Container Apps with .NET 6 (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
.NET Conf – Not Thinking Small – My Journey to Learning .NET (Elahn Harris)
.NET Conf – Stories from interning on the .NET team (Cathy Sullivan, Jessica Houghton & Sophia Carpenter)
.NET Conf – .NET Internet of Things (Melissa Houghton)
State of Serverless Panel at GraphQL Summit (Aaron Powell)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 43 – Automation as Paved Roads in Cloud Enablement (Anton Chuvakin)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 220 – .NET 6 & Minimal APIs with Nick Chapsas (John Callaway)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 143 – Roina Ochieng (Microsoft) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Women in Technology Podcast – You never know until you try! (WiT Team & Tanuja Ghodgaonkar)

Community & Events

PAX East 2022 to require full vaccination status and masks (Brad Stephenson)
50th Anniversary of First Microprocessor (Sue Gee)

Database

Using SQL Server sequence objects (Greg Larsen)
RavenDB 5.3 Features: Incremental time series & implementing lambda based accounting and RavenDB 5.3 New Features: Concurrent subscriptions and RavenDB 5.3 New Features: Concurrent Subscriptions & Serial operations and RavenDB 5.3 New Features: Incremental time series (Oren Eini)
Couchbase Introduces Hosted Database On AWS (Kay Ewbank)
Safe schema updates – Near-zero downtime database deployments (Alex Yates)

Miscellaneous

Amazon releases Prime Video app for Mac with downloads, AirPlay, and more (Chris Welch)
An Introduction to Python for Non-Programmers (Jack Wallen)
Microsoft gives Windows Subsystem for Linux a new icon, fixes issues and updates kernel (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
Xbox surprise: ‘Halo Infinite’ multiplayer debuts; 70+ new backwards-compatible titles revealed (Thomas Wilde)
Microsoft’s Xbox backward compatibility program returns with 76 new games (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3354 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-11-16 (Dan Rigby)
Reading Notes #485 (Frank Boucher)
The Wolf Report – November 16th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #33 (Sam Basu)
[Last Week in .NET #68] – .NET 6 Passionate Programmers (George Stocker)

The Geek Shelf

Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Miri Rodriguez) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 24, 2020 (#3160)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available (Dominic Nahous)
Building Modern & Performant Desktop Apps—Is WinUI 3.0 the Way to Go? (Rossitza Fakalieva)
The March 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
JetBrains Space (EAP) – The Integrated Team Environment (JetBrains)
Windows Terminal 1.0 is coming – Update now and set up your split pane hotkeys! (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Handle Navigation in React Native with react-navigation 5 (Said)
Suppressing characters in a React input (Carl Rippon)
How to Start Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code (Ondrej Polesny)
Ultimate Node.js Production Checklist (Mehul Mohan)
CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard (Bruno Couriol)
Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Connections (Daniel Marbach)
Displaying enum as select list in ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
Running a low-cost, scalable app with Azure Cosmos DB free tier (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
ASP.NET Core Web API and Swagger GUI (R S Dodiya)
Easily adding Security Headers to your ASP.NET Core web app and getting an A grade (Scott Hanselman)
Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services (Steve Gordon)
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) with ASP.NET Core and AJAX (Thomas Ardal)
Replacing AJAX calls in Razor Pages with Razor Components and Blazor (Andrew Lock)
Webhooks: The Building Blocks of an Event-Driven Architecture (Jennifer Riggins)
Search as a conversation using LUIS (Mithun Prasad)
Web Applications in Python (Sadrach Pierre)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Host a custom UWP control in a C++ Win32 app (McLean Schofield)

Visual Studio & .NET

Variables? We Don’t Need No Stinking Variables – C# Discards (Jason Roberts)
Debugging Dapr applications with Visual Studio Code (Jakob Ehn)
C# Design Patterns – Facade (Code Maze)
Using Reflection to Create a Dynamic OnModelCreating in Entity Framework (David Grace)
NServiceBus and .NET Core Generic Host (Jimmy Bogard)
Open URLs in the error/warning description (Matt Lacey)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Security Patterns for Microservice Architectures (Matt Raible)
Testing in Agile: How to Get Started (Balazs Schaffhauser)
GitHub with Azure DevOps (Brian Blackman & Eldon Gormsen)
Managing a Team from Home (Jeff Handley)
Introducing job workflows – sequential flows, fan-in, fan-out and cancellable jobs (Appveyor Team)
What Is Test Driven Development? (Eric Boersma)
Abstractions Carry a Cost (George Stocker)
Command-line tab completion for Octopus CLI (Jim Burger)
Tints, a new Components Menu and more — what’s new in Sketch? and Documenting the humane design movement (Sketch Team)
Install hub to make your Git command-line as fully featured as GitHub (Sudeshna Sur)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Don’t forget about Steam Link on Raspberry Pi (Alex Bate)
How to embed a Flutter application in a Website using DartPad (Jose Alba)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Purchasing Power Parity (Wes Bos)
InfoQ Podcast: Panel: Suddenly Distributed – Effective Agility in the Age of Coronavirus (David Horowitz, Mark Kilby, Lisette Sutherland, Judy Rees, Steve McCann, Charles Humble & Shane Hastie)
Smashing Podcast Episode 12 With Paul Boag: What Is Conversion Optimisation? (Drew McLellan)
Monsters Weekly 157 – C# 8 Default Implementations (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
Real Talk JS Episode 76: Readable JavaScript with Laurie Barth (John Papa)
Deploy your own video collaboration app in under 5 minutes (Brent Schooley)
No Dogma Podcast #140 – Maria Naggaga, Try .NET and .NET Interactive (Bryan Hogan)
Growing an Effective QA Practice | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 147 (Jason Bock)
What’s the future of the Surface Duo API’s | One Dev Question (Scott Fudally)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Shelter In Place (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 136 – Working Remotely (John Callaway)

Community & Events

Announcing the new lead for the Windows Insider Program (Panos Panay)
Women in STEM, Featuring Carly Eckert & Whende Carroll of KenSci (Sara Kuethe)
Google for Games Developer Summit March 2020 (Greg Hartrell)
Celebrating Women Who Have Broken Barriers (Casey McGuigan)
Ask a Developer: Erik Guzman Recommends Plain Language (ContentLab IO)
GitHub – Open collaboration on COVID-19 (Martin Woodward)

Database

How To Connect Remotely to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine (Vitor Montalvao)
What’s the best alternative to azure cosmos DB (Fulton Browne)
Using DbUp and Octopus workers for database deployment automation (Bob Walker)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Virtual Rounding using Microsoft Teams (Max Fritz, Manoj Shah, Tyler Durham, Sohil Sathyanathan, Tavis Hudson, Jim Erickson & Shelly Avery)

PowerShell

Learning PowerShell Core on Linux for the SQL Server DBA Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
PowerShell wrapper around the Calendarific API (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

Moving to Linux – Part 1: Background and first impressions and Part 2: My life in operating systems and Part 3: Installation and day-to-day use and Part 4: Conclusions (Arthur Vickers)
Don’t Just Say It, Show It (Yolanda Fintschenko)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2959 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-24 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2020 #12) (Michael Eaton)
Build5Nines Weekly: March 23, 2020 (Chris Pietschmann)
Weekly Xamarin Newsletter, Issue 249 – 6th March 2020 (Luce Carter)
Front-end RSS Feeds (2020 Edition) (Louis Lazaris)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day (Siddhartha Rao) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – December 30, 2019 (#3101)

Top Links

Visual State Management with BuildIt.States and Uno (Nick Randolph)
How Blazor Is Going to Change Web Development (Jeremy Morgan)
Vertically Sliced Command Line Tools in C# and .NET Core 3.1 (Garo Yeriazarian)
Setting Up Your Machine for .NET Core with Kathleen Dollard – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 69 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

A Deeper Look at Equilateral Triangles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Authenticating JWT Tokens with Azure Functions (Jason Farrell)
PeachPie – PHP Compiler to .NET (PeachPie Team)
Copying files based on file content between two locations with Azure Data Factory (Andrew Connell)
Getting your first Bot Running (Charles Sterling)
Micro Front End Architecture — An Introduction + Initial Thoughts (Charlie Greenman)
gRPC in Golang (Jeremy Zhang)
Install a Blazor app as global tool and service (Manuel Grundner)
Check for Breaking Changes with ApiCompat (Stuart Lang)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How to Prevent memory leak and Profiling in Xamarin applications (Suthahar J.)
Understanding the differences between Margin & Padding. and Translation properties (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Commenting out Code in C# (Oldie but Goldie Tip) (Roland Weigelt)
Git Basics With Visual Studio 2019 (Charles Flatt)
C#.NET: JSON Object Mapper (Asma Khalid)
F# for fun and profit – Learn F# (Scott Wlaschin)
The Dream of C# 9.0 (Matt Eland)
New Features in Entity Framework Core 3.0 (Joydip Kanjilal)
Controversial extension methods: CastTo and As (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Retrospective Smells: Lack of Focus (Ben Linders)
Clean Architecture with DevSecOps (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
What Can Be Done To Make Code Quality Better (David McCarter)
The beauty of Functional Programming (Fanny Vieira)
Just Jump into the Stream (Rion Williams)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Publish smaller apps with the Android App Bundle (Jon Douglas)
Repacking and Resigning an Android APK to Target Different Environments and Scripting the Repacking of Android Apps for a Release Pipeline (Nick Randolph)
DartPad – Flutter Tic Tac Toe game (Dart Community)
Flutter: a guide on TextField (Aneesh Jose)
Creating Development Certificates for Samsunt Tizen TVs (j2inet)
Build a Compass App in Flutter (Kenneth Reilly)
Towards full audio support in Flutter (Suragch)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Windows Central Podcast 159: Insider changes, updates to Edge, and more (Zac Bowden)
Meta Cast Episode 156 – Transforming Leadership with The Agile Wire (Josh Anderson)
Android Central Podcast #454: Decade in review (Jim Metzendorf)
Alexa Dev Chat Episode 0026 – VoiceFirst Conversations with Amazon Music (Dave Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #241 – An Interview with Chuck Peddle (Repeat, in memoriam) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Changelog – Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Gerhard Lazu)
AGL 136: Rockford Lhotka, CTO of Magenic (John Rouda)
2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – A Guide to Living a Life of Frugality (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Talk Python to Me #244 – Top 10 Real Python Articles of 2019 (Michael Kennedy)
Awesome Overlays | Flutter Library of the Week | EP-04 (MTECHVIRAL)

Community & Events

26 Things To Do In Philly, December 30, 2019 – January 5, 2020 (Kelly Bucci)

Database

How to Copy Files in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #257 and SQL SERVER – DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION – PARAMETER SNIFFING (Pinal Dave)
Why is Python Programming a perfect fit for Big Data? (Scarlett Rose)
Refreshing documents in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams – What’s in it for Developers, Part 2 (Pete Fuenfhausen)

PowerShell

Invoke Get-WinEvent without parameters (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

Beat Saber’s 2019 sales numbers showcase huge growth for VR (Nicholas Sutrich)
Battling Favorite Sync in Microsoft Edge (Chromium) (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

Friday Five: Azure Resources Migration With MigAz Tool, Microsoft System Center DPM 2019, and more! (MVP Award Team)
Code Maze Weekly #7 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #291 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #52, 2019 – How to find F# jobs? (Sergey Tihon)
Svelte Status – Consuming an API in Svelte, pass children elements in Svelte, Chrome 80 & more (Marlos from Jexia)

The Geek Shelf

Angular Development with TypeScript (2nd Ed) (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev) – Referral Link

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