Dew Drop – February 22, 2023 (#3885)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released (Anthony Cangialosi)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1 (Daniel Roth)
• The new Bing and Edge – Increasing Limits on Chat Sessions and Building the New Bing (Bing Team)
• Evolving Human-Centered Design Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Colton Perry, PhD)
• Visual Studio for Mac 17.5 is now available (Iain Holmes)
• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1 (Jeremy Likness)

Web & Cloud Development

• Combining 11ty Static Site Generator with ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Streaming, snapshots, and other new features since SvelteKit 1.0 (Geoff Rich)
• Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters with the Kubescape Docker Extension (Ajeet Singh Raina)
• 6 ways to improve accessibility with Azure AI (Andy Beatman)
• PhpStorm 2022.3.3 Preview (Brent Roose)
• Dapr v1.10.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Hannah Hunter)
• Lazy Loading Images Using HTML and JavaScript (Monty Shokeen)
• How to Create a Quick and Easy E-Shop with ASP.NET Core or jQuery (Neli Kondova)
• React Multicolumn MultiSelect Dropdown Component (Saravanan G.)
• An Introduction to Docker: Answering the What, Why, and How (Sunny Patel)
• 2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights (Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence)
• Node v19.7.0 (Current) and Node v18.14.2 (LTS) (Myles Borins)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Implement Fuzzy Search in Syncfusion WinUI AutoComplete (Mohamed Samsudeen)

Visual Studio & .NET

• EF Core 8 Preview 1: Raw, lazy, and on-time (Arthur Vickers)
• Create Clean Guard Clauses With GuardClauses in C# (Code Maze)
• How to generate TwiML using Strings in C# (Niels Swimberghe)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 for C++ Developers (Sy Brand)
• Windows Forms Binding Improvements in .NET 7 for MVVM Support (Edin Kapić)
• Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.5 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.6 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Announcing the reliable web app pattern for .NET (Mayunk Jain)
• Automatic Instrumentation of Containerized .NET Applications With OpenTelemetry (Rahul Rai)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• What are some big red flags when hiring an agile consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AI Mongering (Ian Kennedy)
• How to Improve Software Development Productivity as an Agile Team? (A Guide for Rebels) (Tyler Hakes)
• ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving (John Warner)
• The Challenges of Remote Work (37signals)
• Git on Windows Made Easy With GitHub Desktop (Juliet Ofoegbu)
• Update on the future stability of source code archives and hashes (Matt Cooper)
• ChatGPT Launches Boom in AI-Written E-books on Amazon (msmash)
• Microspeak: Light reading (ironic) (Raymond Chen)
• Inclusive vs. Accessible Design: Is There a Difference? (Suzanne Scacca)

Screencasts & Videos

• Visual Studio 2022 v17.5 released (Visual Studio Team)
• Asp.Net Monsters #263 – Postgresql and Entity Framework (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
• What’s Next for Azure Data Studio | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Erin Stellato)
• Let Your Users Pick a Folder with FolderPicker in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 441 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S23:E2 – Having a Growth Mindset (Tanya Reilly) (CodeNewbie Team)
• React Native Radio 260 – TYPESCRIPT BY DEFAULT: Unpacking React Native 0.71 (Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Avoiding Burnout in Agile Teams, The Importance of Seeking Outside Perspectives as a Scrum Master | Gemma Murray (Vasco Duarte)
• The State of JS Frameworks with Ryan Carniato: Part 1 – JavaScript Jabber 570 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• RunAs Radio – Migrating to Windows 11 with Michael Niehaus (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Postal Customer Councils (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

• Join Brendan Burns, Donovan Brown and others for Azure Open Source Day on March 7th! (Katie Fritsch)
• Join the Azure Collective on Stack Overflow (Courtney Bowler)
• Upcoming Webinar: Coding a Cookbook with .NET MAUI (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Goodbye, CSS-Tricks! (Geoff Graham)
• Inclusion is Innovation: Black and African American Community (Microsoft Life)
• Getting started on your certification with a Learning Partner (Anastasia Kountoura Tomu)
• Contributor Stories: Callum Coffin (Sherry List)

Database

• SQL Calendar Table use a Table and View to Simplify Generation (Aaron Bertrand)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Introducing Bash for Beginners (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza)

Miscellaneous

• retrowin32 progress report (Evan Martin)
• A treasury of Zork maps (Andrew Plotkin)
• Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree (James McCaffrey)
• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1343 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• 5th Person Confirmed To Be Cured of HIV (msmash)
• Microsoft recruited Nintendo and Nvidia to help fight Sony over the Activision deal (Tom Warren)
• Learn Rust With JetBrains IDEs (Vitaly Bragilevsky)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3651 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 21, 2023 (#034) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development: Leverage a first-class cross-platform UI framework to build native apps on multiple platforms (Roger Ye) – Referral Link