Dew Drop – February 10, 2023 (#3877)

Top Links

• What’s new for Hot Chocolate 13 (Michael Staib)
• Introducing Realm for Dart & Flutter (Michael Thomsen)
• ONNX runtime inputs and outputs (Craig Dunn)
• The LEGO Engineering AsyncAPI.NET project has just gone open source. The library seeks to become the standard in how to read and write async API specifications within the .NET ecosystem. (LEGO Engineering Team)
• Announcing the new beta release of Azure Text Analytics libraries (Krista Pratico)
• Write simpler code with the new Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v5 (Maisa Rissi)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Choose the Right Technology for Web API in Your Application (Sergey Abakumoff)
• How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS (Micah Walter)
• What is a Middleware and how to use it in ASP.NET Core? (Steven Giesel)
• WebStorm 2023.1 EAP #4: Improvements for Vue, PostCSS, React, and More (David Watson)
• How to edit a JSON object inside an Azure Logic App (Frank Boucher)
• Announcing the stable release of the Azure Monitor Query client module for Go (Grace Wilcox)
• Attack Techniques: Blended Attacks via Phone (Eric Lawrence)
• UpperCase Styling via CSS (Rick Strahl)
• Developer Portals Can Abstract away Kubernetes Complexity (Zohar Einy)
• What’s New in .NET 7 for Minimal APIs? (Assis Zang)
• WebAssembly: When You Hate Rust but Love Python (B. Cameron Gain)
• Create Reusable Tests and Scripts with OpenAPI Reusable Components (Joyce)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Easily Design a Group Box View in .NET MAUI (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Creating 100% Compliant ZUGFeRD and Factur-X Invoices using MailMerge in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• XAF v23.1 — June 2023 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) (Dennis Garavsky)
• How to Return a Default Value From a Dictionary in C# and .NET Dependency Injection With Constructor Parameters (Code Maze)
• Must follow C rules, no exceptions (Eric Sink)
• .NET Apps Show Poorly in Software Security Report (David Ramel)
• 5 Ways to Protect Excel XLSX Data in .NET Applications (Mackenzie Albitz)
• Support Corner: Protect .NET Apps That Use P/Invoke Methods (John Brawner)
• Iterators – An Elementary Perspective on How They Function (Nick Cosentino)
• A more direct and mistake-free way of creating a process in a job object (Raymond Chen)
• Today’s random F# code: Domain modelling with discriminated unions (Urs Enzler)
• How to Get Windows 11 Design Theme in Your WinForms App (Maria Hadzhieva)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Which Software Architecture Patterns do you use? (Derek Comartin)
• Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Repository graphs in Azure DevOps (Vinod Soni)
• What does Microsoft Bing’s new AI assistant mean for your business? (Simon Bisson)
• Reflections on sharing and requesting feedback (Brian T. Jackett)
• Learn what an AI-driven future means for cybersecurity at Microsoft Secure (Christine Barrett)
• The Only Useful Icebreaker Activity Anyone May Ever Need (Karl Scotland)
• How To Implement Continuous Deployment of Python Packages with GitHub Actions (Liam Mooney)
• An Intro to the Playwright Testing Framework (Luca Del Puppo)
• Three layers to secure a software development organization (Tanya Janca)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (February 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Performant on-device inferencing with ONNX Runtime (Faith Xu & Brian Lambert)
• Control your Flutter app on the fly with Firebase Remote Config (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)

Screencasts & Videos

• Why should I use Azure API Management? | One Dev Question (Mike Budzynski)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Why We do Tech Outreach with Coding By Sophy (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Aligning agile team and company goals for Scrum Master success | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
• Complete Developer Podcast – HTTPS and SSL (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Rocket 424: When Cars Hover Gently (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 537 – Does your professor pass the Turing test? (Eira May)
• UX Podcast #308 – Systems thinking with Sheryl Cababa (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Web Rush Episode 220: Tips for Effective Presenting and Communication (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 259: Designing Services vs Products with Justin Zalewski (Jane Portman)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 087: The 4 Must-Have Traits for Engineers to Build a Business from $0 to $1 MILLION in 3 Years (or Less) with Nicky Billou | CEO (Max Ahumada)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 573 – Converting JS to TypeScript (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)

Community & Events

• MSSQLTips.com Authors and Rookie of 2022 (MSSQLTips Team)
• Big tech layoffs have a far-reaching impact (Devin Partida)
• New Bing announcement first impressions – an OnMSFT Roundtable (Kip Kniskern)
• GitHub is Laying Off 10% of Staff and Cutting Down Office Space (msmash)
• Celebrating RT3D creators and social change in 2022 (Unity Social Impact Team)
• GameDev Breakdown’s New Format: More Development, More Fun! (Todd Mitchell)

Database

• Ultimate Guide for Pushing Azure SQL Changes to Dynamics 365 (Wael Kdouh)
• Basic SQL Cheat Sheet using SELECT, INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE (Jim Evans)

Miscellaneous

• The Future Of Thunderbird: Why We’re Rebuilding From The Ground Up (Thunderbird Team)
• What’s New in Windows for Education in 2023 (Anson Ho)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25295 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1255 and 22623.1255 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Skilling snack: Windows end-user readiness (Harjit Dhaliwal)
• A Guide to Python Exception Handling (Ini Arthur)
• Comcast Gave False Map Data To FCC (msmash)
• Microsoft to Kill Off Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) in 2025 (Rabia Noureen)
• Blizzard unveils its official Diablo cookbook with over 60 recipes (Robert Collins)
• Announcing Rust 1.67.1 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3643 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 9, 2023 (#027) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link