Dew Drop – March 24, 2023 (#3907)

Top Links

• Sync to OneNote in Android app using MS Graph (Parker Schroeder and Kristen Halper)
• Microsoft Loop and the Future of Collaborative Experiences (Rachel Romano & John Roach)
• Building the New Bing: Image Creator (Bing Team)
• Build custom communication experiences with Azure Communication Services UI Library for Microsoft Teams users (David de Matheu)
• Discover .NET 7 SDK Containers – Support for Authentication and Cross-architecture Builds (Chet Husk)
• ChatGPT plugins (OpenAI Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• How Microsoft uses Azure Maps Creator (Clemens Schotte)
• ASP.NET Core SPA Templates: Options for Authentication – The Proposed Plan for .NET 8 (Jeremy Likness)
• WebStorm 2023.1 Release Candidate 2 Is Out (David Watson)
• How to implement the mediator pattern in ASP.NET using MassTransit (Dennis Fruhauff)
• Distributed tracing in Azure using Applications Insights [Pros and Cons] (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Manage networking with Docker Compose (Eric Goebelbecker)
• setTimeout and setInterval Uses and Limitations in Modern Browsers (Andrea Perera)
• WebAssembly Providers Speed Ahead to Fill Serverless Gaps (B. Cameron Gain)
• The Importance of Design in Web Development (Bogdan Sandu)
• Copying FHIR Entities using fhir-loader (Chad Voelker)
• Azure Functions – Part 2 – Unit and Integration Testing (Orestis Meikopoulos)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Introducing the 7th Set of .NET MAUI Controls and Features (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Easily Visualize Online Maps in Your .NET MAUI Apps (Sheik Syed)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Mads Kristensen’s Sneak Peek at Visual Studio’s AI Future, To ‘Rekindle Our Love of Coding’ (David Ramel)
• Leverage ‘is not’ Operator for Exception Filtering! (Steven Giesel)
• Akka.NET v1.5: No Hocon, No Lighthouse, No Problem (Aaron Stannard)
• How to Create a Custom JsonConverter in Json.NET (Ahsan Ullah)
• Source Generators: Making API Calls Easy (David McCarter)
• How unique must the uIdSubclass parameter be when I call Set­Window­Subclass? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Azure DevOps Pipelines: Leveraging Stages with YAML Objects (John Folberth)
• Techniques for Testing Mobile Apps vs. Web Apps (Amy Reichert)
• Modernize your apps and accelerate business growth with AI (Anthony Joseph)
• AI Explainer: Foundation models ​and the next era of AI (Brenda Potts)
• Your tech toolbox: The middle ground between tech chaos and rigidity (Daniel Orner)
• Seven things to know about Responsible AI (Elham Rizi-Shorvon)
• Can ChatGPT transform how we build products? (Glenn Block)
• Getting started in open source (Riaan Kleinhans)
• Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game (Joseph Katsioloudes)
• DZone Trend Report: Software Integration (DZone)
• You’re Invited to Experience Radical Candor on Sessions by MasterClass (Radical Candor Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s the Difference between Flutter and React Native? (Lucero del Alba)
• Media3 is ready to play! (Nevin Mital)

Screencasts & Videos

• Quick start on setting up alerts for Azure VMware Solution | IT Ops Talk (IT Ops Talk Team)
• Less Typing, More Code with Visual Studio Snippets (Gerald Versluis)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrated C++ Game Development (Leslie Richardson)
• SQL Server 2022: Data Virtualization and Object Storage [Ep. 5] | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• SVG: Converting a Shape to a Path (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• The Future of Power Generation with Richard Campbell and Matt Goldman (SSW TV)
• MassTransit Bus Stop – Applying Clean Architecture Principles (Chris Patterson)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Leading engineers as a non-engineer with Daily’s Sarah Milstein (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to measure success as a Scrum Master, focusing on team behaviors | Mike Salogub (Vasco Duarte)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Cross Platform Pitfalls (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Rocket 430: TikTok Heaven 3000 (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #539 – The Last of Us Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Theresa DeLucci, Zach Chapman) (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 548 – After crypto’s reality check, an investor remains cautiously optimistic (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 226: All Things Typescript with Maina Wycliffe (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Software Engineering Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry (Robert Blumen)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 407: It’s fine, pretty fine, and just fine (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Twitch to Lose 400 Employees Amidst Amazon Lay Offs (Kierstyn Cummando)
• Accenture To Cut 19,000 Jobs (msmash)
• Apple Is Tracking Employees To Make Sure They Are In Office 3 Times A Week (Oliver Haslam)

Database

• The SQL Injection Guide: Attacks, Types, Signs & Defense Against SQLi (Muhammad Raza)
• Announcing the New Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool (Mark Brown)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s Next for SharePoint (Adam Harmetz)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1470 and 22624.1470 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25324 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Launching Ada Computer Science, the new platform for learning about computer science (Duncan Maidens)
• Microsoft issues fix for the Snipping Tool’s privacy flaw (Kevin Okemwa)
• paint.net 5.0.3 beta (build 8482) is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Announcing Rust 1.68.1 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3673 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 23, 2023 (#052) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link