Dew Drop – March 17, 2023 (#3902)

Top Links

• Help us investigate a new Welcome Experience in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2 (Grace Taylor)
• Use Microsoft Graph in an Android app (Parker Schroeder)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Being a Teenager in 2023 with Zenzo Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work (Jared Spataro)
• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• How Async/Await Really Works in C# (Stephen Toub)

Web & Cloud Development

• Wrapping Compression Streams in Blazor (Kristoffer Strube)
• We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams. (Tim Anglade)
• ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 2: QuickGrid and Enhanced Blazor WebAssembly Performance (Almir Vuk)
• ASP.NET Core 7: Use endpoint groups to manage minimal APIs versioning (Anthony Giretti)
• .NET MAUI, Blazor and Angular Lessons from Progress Developer Community (Colin Barry)
• WebStorm 2022.3.4 Is Out! (David Watson)
• Full Stack GraphQL With Next.js, Neo4j AuraDB And Vercel (Adam Cowley)
• Internationalization In Next.js 13 With React Server Components (Jan Amann)
• Announcing GraalVM support in Azure SDK for Java and Spring Cloud Azure libraries (Jonathan Giles)
• Part 6 | ASP.NET Core Identity Series [.NET 7] | Facebook Authentication (Naveen Bommidi)
• Integrating JavaScript Scheduler with PHP and MySQL for Dynamic CRUD Operations (Ram Raju Elaiyaperumal)
• WkHtmlToPdf: Dealing with broken Url Encoded and Extended Character Links (Rick Strahl)
• High-performance deep learning in Oracle Cloud with ONNX Runtime (Faith Xu)
• Many Ways to make and Deserialize an HTTP GET with HttpClient (Bryan Hogan)
• Improving Native Message Host Reliability on Windows (Eric Lawrence)
• Faster and easier variable management in Postman (Giridhar)
• Accelerate labelling with GPT models in Language Cognitive Services (Hazem El-Hammamy)
• Take Your Web App Further with Capacitor (Jacklin Altman)
• Google Cloud: Bulk Importing Resources into Pulumi (Josh Kodroff)
• Introducing Postman’s new Guest role to share collections instantly (Ramji Enamuthu)
• Why does everyone “suddenly” hate Single Page Apps? (Simon MacDonald)
• Build better APIs using the new and improved API Builder (Shashank Awasthi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Xamarin Android and Shadows for Irregular Transparent Images (Iris Classon)
• .NET MAUI For C# Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• Quickstart: App notifications in the Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Performance tips and tricks (John-Daniel Trask)
• Extension Method: Converting Tables to Tabs in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Working With Zip Files in C#/.NET (Code Maze)
• C# vs Rust vs Go. A performance benchmarking in Kubernetes (B. Shyam Sundar)
• Mind your C++/WinRT namespaces (Raymond Chen)
• Fable 4.0.0 Release (Alfonso Garcia-Caro)
• Using Sqlite as a store for a long running process (Paul Michaels)
• Experimenting With Managed Identity In MSAL.NET (Den Delimarsky)
• Iterator Benchmarks That Shocked With Unexpected Results (Nick Cosentino)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Repackaging vs Wrapping: Which is the Best Option for Software Packaging? (Alex Marin)
• Some thoughts on AI’s impact on digital design and development (Brad Frost)
• Testing WITHOUT Mocks or Interfaces! (Derek Comartin)
• Prompts for communicators using the new AI-powered Bing (Frank X. Shaw)
• 5 Characteristics to Cultivate Your Entrepreneurial Mindset (JD Meier)
• 6 Ways to Get Specific Feedback from Your Boss (Kim Scott)
• GPT-4: The Next Frontier of Artificial Intelligence (Vesa Nopanen)
• Announcing support of the new Microsoft Store apps during Windows Autopilot (Intune Support Team)
• Advantages of microservices: Why you should drop your monolith (or not!) (Dawid Ziolkowski)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter Level UP — Widget Composition (Mahdi Shahbazi)
• Building iOS Lock Screen widgets (Rudrank Riyam)
• Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 1: Flutter (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Developing for blindness and low vision in VR with Cosmonious High (Jazmin Cano)
• Full underlay passthrough transparency with MRTK3 on Quest 2/Pro (Joost van Schaik)
• 20 Years Later, Second Life is Launching on Mobile (msmash)
• Godot 4.0 Release Party (Lee Reilly)
• Unity DOTS support in Rider 2023.1 (Matt Ellis)

Screencasts & Videos

• What tiers does Azure API Management offer? | One Dev Question (Mike Budzynski)
• Build Unreal Engine Games In C++ Faster | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & David Li)

Podcasts

• .NET Core Podcast – Empathy, Sympathy, and Compassion For Our Users (Jamie Taylor)
• Yet Another Podcast – NDepend (Jesse Liberty)
• What’s the Tea With Max Howell – Adventures in DevOps 154 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 406: John Willis on Deming, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps (Cote & Matt Ray)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Autonomy and Accountability, Key Team Skills That Make You A Successful Scrum Master | Caterina Palmiotto (Vasco Duarte)
• UI Breakfast Episode 262: Growth Design with Brent Palmer (Jane Portman)
• Rocket 429: Bank Run (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• CppCast – Safety Critical C++ (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
• Complete Developer Podcast – 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 546 – Let’s talk large language models (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 225: Maximizing Your Impact as a Developer (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 092: Unleash Your Awesome with Daria Williamson | Author | Career Strengths Expert & Leadership Coach (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

• Webinar – Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• A Minute from the Hachyderm Moderators (Quintessence)
• Join us at Microsoft Secure to discover the latest security solutions (Emma Williams)
• Microsoft Build, Google Next, and Others Added (Jason Gaylord)
• Meet the Seattle Orcas: New pro cricket team is backed by Microsoft CEO and other tech leaders (Kurt Schlosser)
• Microsoft’s Ability Summit has inspired me, again! (Matt Lacey)
• Can Stack Overflow save the day? (Samantha Hill)

Database

• New functions in SQL Server 2022 – BIT_COUNT, GET_BIT and SET_BIT (Daniel Calbimonte)
• How to Learn SQL in 2023: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners (Mark O’Neill)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams App Camp in a Box is now available (Bob German)
• AWS Chatbot Now Integrates With Microsoft Teams (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Tailored SDK experiences via Kiota now generally available (Rabeb Othmani)
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work (Colette Stallbaumer)
• Automate smarter than ever before with AI Builder and Copilot in Power Automate (Stephen Siciliano)
• Administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI (Microsoft 365 Team)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Introducing Warp AI (Zach Lloyd)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1465 and 22624.1465 and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.2787 to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3668 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 16, 2023 (#047) (Richard Seroter)
• Code Maze Weekly #165 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• AI-Infinity – A set of cutting-edge AI tools for experimenting with new ideastechnologies, and algorithms‍. (Fentolia)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor: An in-depth practical guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link – Just released this week!