Month: March 2023

Top Links

• Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The introduction of .NET Standard (Andrew Lock)
• An Introduction to Microsoft Graph SDK and How to Create a To-Do List Using JavaScript (Kevin Gatimu)
• Two Weeks Left for TechBash 2023 Call for Speakers (Jason Gaylord)
• How can I try to escape the disease-ridden hot-tubs known as the TEMP and Downloads directories? (Raymond Chen)
• Telerik Blazor UI In Native Apps (Sam Basu)
• Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code (Christopher Schleiden)

Web & Cloud Development

• Tailwind CSS v3.3: Extended color palette, ESM/TS support, logical properties, and more (Adam Wathan)
• 30 Days Of Azure AI Roadmap (Azure AI Devs)
• WebStorm 2023.1: Improved New UI, TypeScript Support in Vue Templates, Astro Support, and More (David Watson)
• ESLint v8.37.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Exceptionless.JavaScript 3.0.0 Released (Eric J. Smith)
• Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT and more: Explore the latest developer resources (Jeff Medford)
• Part 4 | Blazor WebAssembly | .NET 7 API | MudBlazor | CRUD – Implement Create Operation and Part 5 | Blazor WebAssembly | .NET 7 API | MudBlazor | CRUD – Implement Update Operation and Part 6 | Blazor WebAssembly | .NET 7 API | MudBlazor | CRUD – Implement Delete Operation (Naveen Bommidi)
• Understanding TypeScript Function Types: A Beginner’s Guide (Dmitri Pavlutin)
• Differences between exported collections and collections in Postman (Gbadebo Bello)
• 7 Motivators for Entering Web Development (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Containerizing an Event Posting App Built with the MEAN Stack (Mohammad-Ali A’RÂBI)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI App Stopped Working — HELP! (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Building a Hijri Calendar with .NET MAUI Scheduler: A Beginner’s Guide (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Part 1: Should We Migrate from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI? When? (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• .NET MAUI – Blazor Hybrid – WinUI 3 (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Functional Programming in C#: Oregon Trail Part One – The Feedback Loop and Functional Programming in C#: Oregon Trail Part Two – It’s Huntin’ Season (Simon Painter)
• How to Delete Elements from an Array in C# (Code Maze)
• SVG Export Announced for TX Text Control 32.0 (Bjoern Meyer)
• Exceptionless 8.0.0 Released (Eric J. Smith)
• Create C++ Member Function in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Migrating to MSIX: Limitations, Workarounds and Solutions (Alex Marin)
• Introducing Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering defenders at the speed of AI (Vasu Jakkal)
• Best Motivational Short Stories About Personal Growth, Mindset, and Productivity (J.D. Meier)
• How important is DevOps in continuous delivery of value to customers? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Enabling a No-Code Performance Testing Platform Using the Ddosify Docker Extension (Ajeet Singh Raina)
• How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT With Custom Knowledge Base (Timothy Mugayi)
• Microsoft Secure: Explore innovations transforming the future of security (Christine Barrett)
• Cisco is giving Webex a ChatGPT-like AI to enhance hybrid work, customer experience (Karl Greenberg)
• A shared agenda for responsible AI progress (Kent Walker)
• How to Review and Refactor Code with GPT-4 (and ChatGPT) (Mark O’Neill)
• How to enhance your browsing with AI Prompts in Opera (Opera Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Analyzing your application’s physical memory footprint using Memory Profiler (Anton Kruglyakov)
• How to Get Into Mobile Game Design: 7 Steps to Take (Bogdan Sandu)
• WhatsApp — Event Forwarding Integration for Real-time Personalization (Brindaa Sanjeevi)

Screencasts & Videos

• Barcode Scanning with Google Vision and ML Kit in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• Capturing Query Metrics in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Rie Merritt & Grant Fritchey)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Bekah Hawrot Weigel (Isaac Levin)
• Armchair Architects: Data and Apps—How is data changing (Part 1) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S23:E7 – How a Single Mom in a Shelter Became a Successful Software Developer (Brittney Ball) (CodeNewbie Team)
• The Best of JavaScript and Ruby in 2023 – JavaScript Jabber 575 (Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Building Psychological Safety, lessons from helping an Agile team to share interpersonal feedback | Meena Venkataraman (Vasco Duarte)
• Software Engineering Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js (Phillip Winston)
• Practical AI Podcast – Explainable AI that is accessible for all humans (Beth Rudden, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• PowerShell News Podcast Episode 047 – Interview with James Petty (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
• RunAs Radio – When Does Multi-Cloud Make Sense with Phoummala Schmitt (Richard Campbell)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Encore Episode – Women in the Postal Service (United States Postal Service)
• Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Stop The Innovation Theatre with Steve Blank (Rob Slaughter)

Community & Events

• GitHub Galaxy 2023: Empower developer teams with a new developer experience (Inbal Shani)
• GDE Women’s History Month Feature: Jigyasa Grover, Machine Learning (Kevin Hernandez)
• Wireshark Celebrates 25th Anniversary with a New Foundation (Joab Jackson)
• GitHub Slashes Its Entire Engineering Team in India (msmash)
• This is the time to be unpredictable and human (Chris Heilmann)
• Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs (Jon Porter)
• Microsoft lays off at least 699, cuts come to SCIM, GitHub (Priya Walia)
• What Community Activity Means to Microsoft MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
• Modern Work Supportability – Celebrating Women’s History Month (Ross Smith)
• Top Things to Do in Philadelphia in May 2023 (Visit Philly)

Database

• Is SQL Server 2019 More CPU-Intensive Than SQL Server 2016? (Brent Ozar)
• Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022 (Perry Skountrianos)
• Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore (Azure Team)
• Microsoft Learn: Programming Databases with Transact-SQL for Beginners (Rie Merritt)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Maximizing Feedback: Integrating Adaptive Cards with Microsoft Teams for ServiceNow Ticket Surveys (Luis Demetrio)
• Announcing Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams (Sehrish Khan)
• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17 release candidate (Vesa Juvonen)
• What’s New in Excel (March 2023) (Microsoft Excel Team)
• Viva Connections is now available on tablet devices (Scott Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts on journaling: Answering common questions (Michael Eaton)
• NPR prioritizes radio over podcasts with steep cuts (Ariel Shapiro)
• 5 Chromebook updates for students and teachers (Andy Russell)
• Steam Will Require Windows 10 or Later Next Year (BeauHD)
• Microsoft reportedly working on “CorePC” for the Windows 12 timeframe (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Plans Major Platform Upgrades for ‘Windows 12’ That Will Modernize the OS With AI and Faster Updates (msmash)
• Announcing Rust 1.68.2 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3676 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #51 (davita8)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 28, 2023 (#055) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link