Dew Drop – March 27, 2023 (#3908)

Top Links

• Bing Preview Release Notes: AI-powered Knowledge Cards and Stories (Bing Team)
• What was the confidential coffee maker? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)
• Harnessing GPT-4 for Writing Assistance and Content Creation (Mark Harbottle)
• Chris Sainty: Blazor in Action – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 238 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Docker: We’re No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team Plan (Scott Johnston)

Web & Cloud Development

• Smallest Minimal Web API in .NET? (Bryan Hogan)
• Azure Service Bus – Runtime Properties (Paul Michaels)
• Custom Event Arguments in Blazor WebAssembly (Alvaro Montoya)
• Remove Duplicates From an Array in JavaScript (Divya Dev)
• How To Build an AI Bot using Azure Functions, Chat GPT and the Twitter API v2 with C# (Jamie Maguire)
• Multiple authorization handlers for the same requirement in ASP.NET Core (Karthik Chintala)
• What is CSS Overflow Property? (Mark Harbottle)
• #CASBAN6: Implementing the API endpoints with Azure Functions (Marco Siccardi)
• Angular (v15) | Sorting | Search | Pagination | On Material Card Items and Part 1 | Blazor WebAssembly | .NET 7 API | MudBlazor | CRUD – Create Sample SQL Table & MudBlazor Project and Part 2 | Blazor WebAssembly | .NET 7 API | MudBlazor | CRUD – Create API Project (Naveen Bommidi)
• CSS Flex: What Every Developer Should Know (Nethmi Wijesinghe)
• Get started with the Reels Publishing APIs in Minutes with Postman (Alex Enriquez)
• Streamline access to stack outputs with OutputDetails (Abhinav Gupta)
• TypeScript 5.0: New Decorators Standard, Smaller npm (Loraine Lawson)
• How to Access HttpContext and Other Services for Dependency Injection with Hangfire (Paul DeVito)
• GoLand 2023.1 Release Candidate Is Out! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More (Almir Vuk)
• Aspects of “good code” (not just XAML) (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Source Generators: How to get build information? (Steven Giesel)
• Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework (Almir Vuk)
• Deep Copy of an Object in C# (Code Maze)
• MongoDB, C# and DateTime’s and How to create a NuGet metapackage (Daniel Wertheim)
• Job Sequencing Problem in C# (Dotnet Office)
• What is LINQPad? (Hootan Hemmati)
• Building a Credit Card Payment Form with Conditional Instructions (Bjoern Meyer)
• Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Why UX research is so important — and how to do it right (Alexandra Hemmer)
• 9 coding practices that have a smell (Dennis Doomen)
• How Microsoft Edge Updates (Eric Lawrence)
• The difference between libraries and frameworks (Goodness Woke)
• Best ChatGPT Use Cases to Change the World (JD Meier)
• Here’s How to Stop Disempowering Your Employees and Start Creating a Cohesive Team (Kim Scott)
• Using GPT-4 for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tasks (Mark Harbottle)
• More functional pits of success (Mark Seemann)
• Is manual testing going to become more important when code is written by AI? and I like causing tests to fail (Matt Lacey)
• The definitive guide to remote meetings that don’t suck (Sam Puckett)
• How We’re Using (and Not Using) AI Writing at Draft.dev (Karl Hughes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Maximizing Your Flutter App’s Performance with (Async)NotifierProvider, Freezed & Riverpod Code Generators (Nikki Eke)
• Utilizing GPT-4 for Game Development (Mark Harbottle)
• PyGames – show off your skills and win amazing prizes! (Mustafa Branch)

Screencasts & Videos

• Visual Studio and Android Emulators (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Fork a Flow | Postman Flows (Postman Team)
• Building a new PC LIVE from parts with Damian Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
• Building “Next Tech Event” using Blazor and RavenDB Part 15 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Technology & Friends – Matt Groves on Fluent Migrator (David Giard)

Podcasts

• OnPodcast Ep.107: Bard gets public reviews, Loop vs. Notion, CMA leaning towards approval (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 351: What are F# Discriminated Unions? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, OpenAI, and the AI opportunity for startups, with Neo CEO Ali Partovi (Todd Bishop)
• Azure Podcast Episode 456 – Azure Programmable Connectivity (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• DevOps as a Service with Benjamin Johnson – Adventures in DevOps 155 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The ex-developer skills that help Product Owners excel with Agile software development | Mike Salogub (Vasco Duarte)
• JS Party Podcast – Recreating Node.js from scratch (Erick Wendel, Jerod Santo & Kevin Ball)
• How we Deploy our Apps – Adventures in Angular 375 (Charles Max Wood & Lucas Paganini)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 076 – An Introduction to Time Series with InfluxData and Jay Clifford (David Isbitski)
• The Amp Hour #625 – Gremlins in the machine (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 263: Sharing Work in Progress with Brian Lovin (Jane Portman)
• AGL 304: Deb Coviello (John Rouda)
• Talk Python to Me #408: Hatch: A Modern Python Workflow (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• What it means to be an Android Google Developer Expert (Yasmine Evjen)
• Women in Tech Is More Than a Corporate Training Exercise (Carrie Goetz)
• A Tech Job Still Pays $120 an Hour Despite Mass Layoffs (msmash)
• Meet the Judges for the 2023 Imagine Cup World Finals (MS Student Developer Team)
• The Biggest Concerts & Music Festivals in Greater Philadelphia for 2023 (Visit Philly)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest John Kattenhorn & Vincent Hoogendoorn (David McCarter)
• Get the best of OpenAI in Power Apps! (Someleze Diko)

Database

• Seamless Monitoring and Reporting for SQL Server (Scott Murray)
• Query All Databases Across Multiple SQL Servers and Store Results in Table (Jim Evans)
• SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out (William Assaf)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Use Microsoft Generative AI TODAY For One Click Content Creation of Documents, Web Posts, And Emails (Mike Gannotti)
• Jump to Future of Work with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Vesa Nopanen)
• New Microsoft Loop app for modern co-creation (Zachary Cavanell)

PowerShell

• Finding Emails using Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and Execute Advanced Hunting Queries using PowerShell (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

• Natural History Museums Join Forces To Produce Global Digital Inventory (BeauHD)
• Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data and Apple staff reportedly express doubts about mixed-reality headset months ahead of launch (Emma Roth)
• Twitter says source code was leaked on GitHub, now it’s trying to find the culprit (Jon Porter)
• A first look at using iMessage from a PC with Microsoft’s Phone Link app (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3674 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #12, 2023 – Copilot X and F# in StarTreck (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #166 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The Overflow #170: Wary about AI assistants (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 24, 2023 (#053) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading List 302 (Bruce Lawson)
• Build5Nines Weekly – March 27, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
• C# Digest Issue #447 – March 27, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Collective #757 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 7, Blazor, and EF Core 7, 7th Edition (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link