Dew Drop – March 16, 2023 (#3901)

Top Links

• Top 8 JavaScript Notification Libraries (Poorna Theekshana)
• Announcing Polyglot Notebooks! Multi-language notebooks in Visual Studio Code (Claudia Regio)
• Porting a Custom-Drawn Xamarin Forms Control to Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
• Windows App SDK Version 1.2.5 (1.2.230313.1) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Improving the Visual Studio Spell Checker (Dante Gagne)
• Microsoft Build – Online and In-Person – May 22-25, 2023 (Microsoft)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps (Azure Team)
• Recent changes to data visibility for Microsoft Graph callRecords APIs (Microsoft Graph Team)
• A Small Demo On OData (v8) In .NET 7 API Application (Naveen Bommidi)
• Let’s Boost Your Productivity With APIs (Rafael Staib)
• GraphQL on Azure: Part 12 – GraphQL as a Service and Part 13 – Using Data API builder with SWA and React and Part 14 – Using Data API builder with SWA and Blazor (Aaron Powell)
• How to Integrate Blazor WebAssembly into an Existing ASP.NET Core Web Application (Carey Payette)
• Empowering Mobile Users with Syncfusion React Data Grid’s Adaptive UI Layout (Maithiliy K.)
• Server Timing API Meets Isolated Worker Process Azure Functions – Custom Middleware and Dependency Injection (Tomasz Pęczek)
• How and why to use attribute selectors in CSS (Oyetoke Tobi)
• Creating a CRUD-Enabled Scheduling App with Syncfusion React Scheduler, Node.js, and PostgreSQL (Ram Raju Elaiyaperumal)
• Blazor WebAssembly — AOT Compilation and Link Trimming (v22.2) (Svetlana Mikheeva)
• Node v19.8.1 (Current) (Michael Zasso)
• Gain flexibility and scale with a cloud-native DLP solution (Christine Barrett)
• Three attributes for better web forms (Jeremy Keith)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Enhancing JPEG, PNG, Text Using C# .NET Part 1 – Shadow Effect (Andrey Dryazgov)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5.2 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Preview 2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Visual Studio Ditches Edge Developer Tools (David Ramel)
• Immutable Collections in C# (Code Maze)
• Using the Playwright C# SDK to automate 2FA authentication for AAD and MSA (Howard van Rooijen)
• Polly with .NET 6, Part 8 – Policy Registry with Minimal APIs, and HttpClientFactory (Bryan Hogan)
• .NET 8 is on the way! Discover its new Features (ByteHide)
• Microsoft .NET Source Generators (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• 7 Better Habits of Sustainable High Performance (J.D. Meier)
• GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures (Gary Marcus)
• Sprints and Marathons in Life and Work (Jeff Teper)
• OpenChatKit is an Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT (Jesus Rodriguez)
• 12 Reasons Organizations Adopt Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Stop doing sprints? That’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous! (Michael Eaton)
• Chat GPT 4 – Still Not Telling The Whole Truth (Mike James)
• Getting started with GitLab application security (Julie Byrne)
• How can I create a git feature branch that can merge into multiple other branches? (Raymond Chen)

Screencasts & Videos

• SQL Server 2022 acceleration & offloading with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 147 – Silicon Valley Bank (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Building Cross-Platform Apps Made Easy with .NET MAUI in Action with Matt Goldman (SSW TV)
• WinUI Community Call – March 15, 2023 (Windows Developer Team)
• 3 ways to share content in a Microsoft Teams meeting (Microsoft Teams)
• Meeting the Market with Digital TTRPG Tools | Demiplane (Microsoft Developer Team)
• How We Built It: GraphQL Support (Postman Team)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Developer Velocity in the Cloud with Bryan Foster (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• CodeNewbie S23:E5 – Going from Ministry to Tech (Kyle Shevlin) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Lessons from an Agile Transformation in a Manufacturing Company | Caterina Palmiotto (Vasco Duarte)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 262: Learning Azure Synapse Pt 1 (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 118: Things We Should Be Doing (Ben Nadel)
• The Changelog – Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Nathan Sobo, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Practical AI Podcast – AI search at You.com (Bryan McCann, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 561 – Visible APIs get reused, not reinvented (Ryan Donovan)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 555: On Freund on Upskilling (Brijesh Ammanath)

Community & Events

• #NotAllWomen (‘Tine Zekis)
• Microsoft Store App Awards 2023 nominations are now open! (Zahara Kondo)
• 4 updates from the Google for Games Developer Summit (Alex Chen)

Database

• The SELECT Statement in Oracle (Chandra Rawat)
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-March 2023 (Azure Team)
• Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in Azure VMware Solution (Amy Colyer)
• Announcing Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Avatars in Teams for everyone + How to prepare for Loop App preview! and Preview of Viva Connections Toolkit for VS Code (Vesa Juvonen)
• Microsoft Forms lets you leverage AI technology to spruce up your invitations (Kevin Okemwa)

Miscellaneous

• Healthcare Use Case: Digital Forms Workflow with Electronic Signatures (Bjoern Meyer)
• Diablo IV: Talking the Open Beta With the Game’s Director (Joe Skrebels & Adam Fletcher)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) v1.1.5 released (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft signs fourth Call of Duty deal in fresh bid to win over regulators and Microsoft is bringing Minecraft to Chromebooks (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3667 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 15, 2023 (#046) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link