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Dew Drop – August 26, 2022 (#3752)

Top Links

.NET MAUI eBook Now Available – Enterprise Application Patterns (Michael Stonis)
Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK (Chet Husk)
Build Your Own Retro Toy Robot – Meet Omnibot (John Kennedy)
C# 11 Raw String Literals Explained (Patrick Smacchia)
Announcing TypeScript 4.8 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

Installing and running Node.js bin scripts (Axel Rauschmayer)
Sneak Peek 31.0: Customizing the Context Menu of the ASP.NET Document Editor (Bjoern Meyer)
Part 2 | NestJS (v9) | Angular (v14) | MongoDB | CRUD Example (Naveen Bommidi)
How to create an ASP.NET Core Minimal API with Visual Basic .NET (there’s no template) (Niels Swimberghe)
Deploy Azure Landing Zones using Azure Bicep (Thomas Maurer)
JWT creation and validation in Python using Authlib (Scott Brady)
Simple Lambda Function with a Function URL (Bryan Hogan)
Top 6 Frontend Frameworks To Use in 2022 (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
3 Ways to Build Workflows in Postman (Pooja Mistry)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Visual Studio & .NET

Microsoft Secures Visual Studio Live Share Sessions and C#, TypeScript Crack Top 10 in 2022 IEEE Programming Language Ranking (David Ramel)
Combine Powerful Speech Recognition and Document Editing (Katie)
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 22: Other kinds of classic prologues and epilogues (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Key-Range Partitions (Martin Fowler)
How to illustrate in Sketch (Sketch Team)
What are the differences between INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR? (Horatiu Vladasel)
4 ways your team can use Trello for IT project management | Trello (Court Bishop)
Vision-oriented and impact-oriented mindsets (Dimitri Glazkov)
Contributing to open source – taking the dive (Joe Dunleavy)
Keeping your skillset fresh as a developer (Klint Finley)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Experimenting with postures in Flutter (Andrei Diaconu)

Screencasts & Videos

Lessons Learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Jose M. Jurado)
MAUI – Do you build cross-platform mobile apps with .NET MAUI ? (for iOS and Android) (SSW TV)
Use Workflows to schedule a meeting from a Microsoft Teams chat (Microsoft Teams)
What kinds of ventures does TitletownTech invest in? (Craig Dickman)
TED Talks are life-changing. Here are 11 Most popular Ted Talks worth your time. (Harsh Makadia)

Podcasts

Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Growing your career via technical content creation with Mohammed Osman (Scott Hanselman)
Web Rush Episode 198: Angular v14 and Beyond (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Software Defined Talk Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps? (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
UI Breakfast Episode 246: Running a Profitable Email List with Chase Dimond (Jane Portman)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 477 – The luckiest guy in AI (Eira May)
UX Podcast #296 – Introvert designers with Tim Yeo (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #062: Cybersecurity Attacks and Terrorism – How to Reduce Your Risk with Tom Kirkham (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

Announcing the latest AWS Heroes – August 2022 (Ross Barich)
Speaking Schedule and Presentations (Isaac Levin)
Open Source Monthly: August 2022 Edition (Rizel Scarlett)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

From intuitive sharing with OneDrive to driving prioritization with Viva Goals—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 (Colette Stallbaumer)
What’s new in Microsoft Forms | September 2022 and New features in Microsoft Forms for education | September 2022 (Skylar Pan)

Miscellaneous

Windows 11 preview makes Windows Terminal the command-line default (Liam Tung)
LastPass suffers a security breach: hackers steal source code from password management company (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
DuckDuckGo’s email protection beta is now open to all (Wayne Williams)
Introduction to NVIDIA NeMo – Tutorial & Example (Exxact Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3531 (Chris Alcock)
Code Maze Weekly #136 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Collective #726 (Mary Lou)
Bits and Bytes – 2022-7 (Joe Brinkman)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – June 28, 2021 (#3472)

Top Links

Developing for Android on Windows (Guy Merin)
Surface and the future with Windows 11 (Matt Barlow)
3 Terrible Programming Features From the Past (Matthew MacDonald)
Ditch that Packaging Project with the Windows App SDK (Windows UI) (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

React 18 and TypeScript (Johnny Reilly)
Create View and Edit Power BI Reports In Blazor (Michael Washington)
Learn React with this free GitHub book I wrote (Chris Noring)
Sign-in using multiple clients or tenants in ASP.NET Core and Azure AD (Damien Bowden)
ES2021 Features (Hemanth HM)
How to Implement Rich Angular Notifications (aka Toast, Snackbar) with Kendo UI (Dan Beall)
Creating A Multi-Author Blog With Next.js (Dom Habersack)
Using Azure Active Directory to Secure Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Apps (Marinko Spasojevic)
Azure SDK management library highlights from Microsoft Build (Nick Zhu)
Receiving a Message Using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus (Paul Michaels)
GoLand 2021.2 EAP Build #5 Is Out With a New Button for Updating go.mod and Completion for MongoDB Fields and Operators (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Uno Platform 3.8 Is Here and .NET MAUI Preview 5 Is Here (Almir Vuk)
Xamarin Code Quality & Performance (Luis Matos)

Visual Studio & .NET

ICYMI C# 9 New Features: Reducing Code with Target-typed New Expressions (Jason Roberts)
How to Compare Performance between .NET 5 and .NET Framework Controls (Denis Zmitrichenko)
.NET Framework June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview (Tara Overfield)
Cost of exceptions (Gunnar Peipman)
Setting up an autologger with WPR (Sowoon Pyo)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Building Your Own Agile Team Maturity Assessment (Kasie Kremenak)
Combining multiple repositories with Azure DevOps pipeline (III) and Combining multiple repositories with Azure DevOps pipeline (IV) (Feng Xue)
Migrating from Capybara to Puppeteer (Jason Chambers)
Building Production Ready Applications (Scott Kuhl)
Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Effective Facilitation (Travis Lowdermilk)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Xcode 13 Extends Team Collaboration and Source Editing Features (Sergio De Simone)
How to React to Touch Events in Flutter (Arooha Arif)
Rider for Unreal Engine Update Comes With Significant Debugger Enhancements (Anastasia Kazakova)
Introducing HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Production for Unreal Engine (Em Lazer-Walker)
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template (Pete D.)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S16:E8 – What you should know about frontend development (Laurie Barth) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Gavin Bauman on SonarQube (David Giard)
Install Windows 11 in Just 5 Clicks | Easiest method (MTechViral)
OnPodcast Episode 39: Everything about the official Windows 11 reveal & our Microsoft event recap (Podcast OnMSFT)
Merge Conflict 260: Every question answered (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Meta Cast Episode 200 – Great Agile Planning (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
C# Language Highlights: Using Declarations | On .NET (Matt Soucoup & Maira Wenzel)
Async Debugging Part 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Isadora Rodopoulos)
ID10T Podcast – Edgar Wright and Sparks (Chris Hardwick)
UI Breakfast Episode 216: Meeting Facilitation with Douglas Ferguson (Jane Portman)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 275 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #107: Serverless Infrastructure as Code with Ben Kehoe (Jeremy Daly)
AGL 208: The Data Mirage with Ruben Ugarte (John Rouda)
The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 62 – Introduction to Modern Databases for Educators with Julianna Chen and Eoin Brazil (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
An introduction to the Microsoft identity platform (Scott Hanselman & Christos Matskas)
Managed Endpoints | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Sethu Raman)
Talk Python to Me #322: A path into data science (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Microsoft’s Panos Panay on building Windows 11 during a pandemic, Android, and the leak (Tom Warren)
Free Webinar – SQL Performance Monitoring with Wait Statistics Scripts (Pinal Dave)
FHIR @hack 2021 (July 9-11) – Build tech solutions that improve the patient-clinician experience (The @ Company)
Encouraging women to embrace their cybersecurity superpowers (Emma Jones)
Unpacking the user research behind Collectives™ (Ben Popper & Mithila Fox)
Hypotheses and High Hopes: How ’empower everyone’ can really mean everyone (Paul Culmsee)

Database

RavenDB 5.2 RTM is out! (Oren Eini)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Teams 2.0 announced with Windows 11! (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

Clearing up Windows 11 Compatibility, It’s Easy and Frustrating (Brad Sams)
Managing installed apps in Windows with Winget (Bruno Sonnino)
Report from Israel: About Half of Adults Infected With Covid-19 Delta Variant Were Fully Inoculated (EditorDavid)
Windows 11 enables security by design from the chip to the cloud (Emma Jones)
PC Health Check app incorrectly reports ‘This PC can’t run Windows 11’ error; a fix coming soon and PC Health Check v2.3 now tells you why your device is ineligible for Windows 11 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows as a Service cheat sheet, Windows 11 edition and ADK for Windows 11 is available (Michael Niehaus)
The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 20: Code walkthrough (Raymond Chen)
Windows 11 is borrowing ideas from PowerToys (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 6 (Sophie Sommer)
The Verge Guide to Windows (The Verge Staff)
Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3261 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-28 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 310 – 26th Jun 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
Code Maze Weekly #82 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Overflow #79: Zoom! Enhance! Super resolution! (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
C# Digest Issue #369 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #26, 2021 – Narratives in The Early History of F# (Sergey Tihon)
Friday Five: Attack Surface Reduction, WSP Deployer, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The .NET Stacks #55: Ready or not, here comes .NET 6 Preview 5 (Dave Brock)

The Geek Shelf

The Customer-Driven Playbook: Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products (Travis Lowdermilk & Jessica Rich) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 23, 2021 (#3407)

Top Links

The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready? (Ben Wiseman)
Practical differences between C# vs Vb.Net (Michał Białecki)
Tetris in Blazor WebAssembly (Matthew Jones)
The philosophy and practice of our hybrid workplace (Kurt DelBene)
Adventures in .NET 061: C# 9 Deep Dive with Jason Bock (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)

Web & Cloud Development

Harness Azure CLI to Keep Your App Service Name (Adam Storr)
Exploring Blazor Hybrid App using Mobile Blazor Bindings (Ajith R)
Tips for Javascript Perfomance Testing (Andreea Zorz)
Debugging configuration values in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
How to Receive a Phone Call in Node.js with Twilio Functions (Ashley Boucher)
Use Logpoints! (David Walsh)
Scaling Microservices on Kubernetes (Ashley Davis)
Setting dynamic Metadata for Blazor Web assembly (Damien Bowden)
The Difference Between Values and References in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Secure containerized environments with updated threat matrix for Kubernetes (Emma Jones)
Introducing AWS SSO support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code (Garret Sweetwood)
Looking For The Best jQuery Books? We’ve Got You. (Janus Atienza)
Brand New DHTMLX Gantt Libraries in Pure React, Svelte, and Vue.js (Kotryna Kairyte)
2 Ways to Log the Current User in ASP.Net Core (Lee Richardson)
Evolving Google Workspace Add-ons with Alternate Runtimes (Charles Maxson)
How To Pass Data Between The Component To Another Component In Angular (Satheesh Elumalai)
Azure Workbooks – Set it to Auto-Refresh (shijain13)
Azure Functions Support for node.JS 14 and .Net 5 Is Now Generally Available (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties (Temani Afif)
Angular Basics: What Are Promises and Async/Await, and Why Should You Care? (Thomas Findlay)
A safer default for navigation: HTTPS (Shweta Panditrao & Mustafa Emre Acer)
Discover the New Productivity Features of GoLand 2020.3 — With a Recording of the Webinar (Ekaterina Zharova)
A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components (Vitaly Friedman)
Joining forces on better browser compatibility in 2021 (Kyle Pflug)
We are building a better Heroku (Michael Friedrich)
Blazorise v0.9.3 – patch 2 release notes (Mladen Macanovic)
Cloud-Native learning resources for .NET developers (Nish Anil)
LiveReloadServer – A Generic Static Web Server with Live Reload based on .NET (Rick Strahl)
Keeping Your Secrets Secret (Sophia Parafina)
The Ultimate Guide to Building a UI Component Library—Part 2: Establishing a Development Environment (TJ VanToll)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

.NET 6 Preview Adds MAUI (Kay Ewbank)
Xamarin.Forms: Reopening application best pratices (András Tóth)
Designing an API for Reveal Data Analytics WPF SDK (Brian Lagunas)

Visual Studio & .NET

How To Add A View To An Entity Framework Core DbContext (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Quick Visual Studio Code tip: Expand/Shrink selection (Chris Heilmann)
VS Code node:console Fix (David Walsh)
Fusing await using and await foreach and await (Jiří Činčura)
Collecting Managed Crash Dumps on App Services for Linux (Mark Downie)
Easy generation of fake/dummy data in C# with Faker.Net (Kristoffer Strube)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How you contribute to GitLab’s open DevOps platform (GitLab Team)
Bicep meet Azure Pipelines (Johhn Reilly)
An Opinionated Guide To Handling Pull Requests (PRs) On My Team (Ben Nadel)
Advanced Installer 18.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
New in Sketch: Linked Data and Starred updates (Sketch Team)
One year in: 7 urgent trends for leaders in the shift to hybrid work (Jared Spataro)
What Is A Burndown Chart And How Do You Use One? (Kat Boogaard)
How do I start a sustainability community in my organization? (Sara Bergman)
Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers (Tyce Clee)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Announcing Ionic Storage v3 (Matt Netkow)
A new Package Manager experience in Unity 2021.1 (Stephane Blondin)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Effortless Custom GraphQL with GraphQL Codegen (Wes Bos)
Weekly Dev Tips – Blogging with guest Andrew Lock (Steve Smith)
CodeNewbie S15:E7 – How to communicate complex technical topics (Anna Skoulikari) (CodeNewbie Team)
Revision Path – Kelly Walters (Maurice Cherry)
Software Engineering Daily – Opstrace: Open Source Observability with Sebastien Pahl (Jeff Meyerson)
InfoQ Podcast: Ted Young on Observability and the Release of OpenTelemetry 1.0 (Ted Young)
Coding After Work Podcast Episode 57 – React, writing a book, and Blazor with Carl Rippon (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – Converting to the community SDK (Mads Kristensen)
Amazing Data Visualization with CarouselView in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
No Dogma Podcast #152 – Martin Beeby, Using .NET on AWS, Part 1 (Bryan Hogan)
AzureFunBytes – Intro to Azure Policy with Steven Murawski (Jay Gordon)
On .NET Episode: C# Source Generators (Cecil L. Phillip)
How to Update Disconnected IoT Devices | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Andy Rivas)
On Prem To The Cloud: DevOps-ing Everything As Code (Ep 5) (Zachary Deptawa)
Meta Cast Episode 192 – Bob Is Done With Scrum?! (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
NSScreencast #481 – Mapping Models with Antoine van der Lee (Ben Scheirman)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 221: SQL Trail March 2021 Retrospective (Carlos L. Chacon)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 249 (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #93: WebAssembly and WASI with Aaron Turner (Jeremy Daly)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph Blueprints with Fabian Williams (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
8 Bits with Danny Ramos! (Brandon Minnick & Chloe Condon)
How to use Microsoft Word and Teams as a teleprompter for presentations | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
Microsoft Teams Shared Channels with Pouneh Kaufman and Eileen Zhou – MidDay Café Recording (Mike Gannotti)
Womxn in Engineering: Challenging Today to Empower Tomorrow (MongoDB)
DBAle 30: If it ain’t DevSecOps…what is it? (Redgate Software)
Introduction to Bash Recap | Learn with Dr G | Learn with Dr. G (Sarah Guthals, PhD)
Mentorship vs. Sponsorship + Storytelling – Computer Stuff They Didn’t Teach You #21 (Scott Hanselman)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 188 – Designing for Scale with James Avery (John Callaway)
Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 119 (Vesa Juvonen)
Identity, Unlocked… Explained: Season 2, Ep. 5 (Vittorio Bertocci)

Community & Events

Join us at F8 Refresh on June 2nd (Konstantinos Papamiltiadis)
Redditors ask the best questions (Bill Gates)
Microsoft to partially reopen its Redmond campus March 29 and possibly fully reopen on July 6 (Mary Jo Foley)
Past Imagine Cup competitors: Where are they now? (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

SQL Server DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Examples (Joe Gavin)
Shape the Future of Azure SQL Products! (Mara Steiu)
Build real-time data pipelines with Azure Event Hub, Stream Analytics and Cosmos DB (Fikrat Azizov)
Perform at-scale, agentless SQL server discovery and assessment with Azure Migrate (Abhishek A. Hemrajani)
Find Expensive Queries – SQL in Sixty Seconds #159 (Pinal Dave)
How we implemented Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase (Denis Rosa)

SharePoint & MS Teams

PowerPoint Live / Presenter View in Microsoft Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
Build video, voice and chat apps that connect to Microsoft Teams | Azure Communication Services (Zachary Cavanell)
Microsoft Teams Displays Update | March 2021 (Microsoft Teams Team)

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Getting Started with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK (Microsoft Graph Team)

Miscellaneous

More than you ever wanted to know about ‘Knight Rider’ (Jason Weisberger)
Guest Access in Yammer is now Generally Available (Nagaraj Venkatesh)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3196 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-23 (Dan Rigby)
Last Week In .NET #34 – Azure goes Achoo (George Stocker)
Weekly Notes – #55 (Miguel Bernard)

The Geek Shelf

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