Dew Drop – April 12, 2023 (#3920)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 3 (David Ortinau)
• Check out new C# 12 preview features! (Kathleen Dollard)
• Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program (OpenAI Team)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 3 (Daniel Roth)
• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3 (Jiachen Jiang)

Web & Cloud Development

• Kubernetes v1.27: Chill Vibes (Kubernetes Release Team)
• Wasp Launch Week #2 (Matija Sosic)
• State Hasn’t Changed? Why and when Blazor components re-render (Jon Hilton)
• Shallow vs. Deep Copying in JavaScript (Mark O’Neill)
• Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API from JavaScript with Svelte (Part 1) (Oliver Sturm)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
• Deploy your ChatGPT based model securely using Microsoft Teams, Power Virtual Agent and Azure OpenAI (Alexis Kinzelin)
• How to build a TypeScript app with Vite (Clara Ekekenta)
• OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 and GraphQL (Antoine Carossio)
• Announcing a white paper on Platforms for Cloud Native Computing (Josh Gavant & Abby Bangser)
• Improving my blog’s performance with WebPageTest – part 1 (ThisCouldBeUseful)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• MauiWorkshop Sample Code (Jeff Fritz)
• Dependency Injection with Avalonia UI Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: Access items from the end of the array using the ^ operator (Davide Bellone)
• How to Validate Email Address in C# (Code Maze)
• Your JetBrains All Products Pack Tools Are Ready To Be Updated to 2023.1 (Eugene Toporov)
• Build a ChatGPT clone in .NET using OpenAI and Semantic Kernel (Jim Bennett)
• Extending .NET Caching Provider for Collections (Matthew Groves)
• .NET April 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.5, .NET 6.0.16 (Rahul Bhandari)
• How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 1: Via an encoded stream (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 RC and Azure DevOps 2023 Q2 Roadmap update (Gloridel Morales)
• Beat Your Biases: What I Learned Building a Library of Cognitive Biases (J.D. Meier)
• Agile Transformation Requires More Than Agile Practices (Mike Cottmeyer)
• OpenAI Cookbook – Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API (OpenAI Team)
• What is ChatGPT and How Can it Help Me? and Using ChatGPT to Make Your Work Easier (David Giard)
• Saying ‘No’ to Stress (‘Tine Zekis)
• Ask a Techspert: What is generative AI? (Eben Carle)
• New features now on Atlassian Admin hub for Trello admins (Erika Storli)
• Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development (Mark Paulsen)
• What is the Software Development Lifecycle? (Nicholas Rini)
• 3 Methods to Generate a .gitignore File Automatically (Nipuni Arunodi)
• Real-time Messaging (Sameera Thangudu)
• The Ultimate Compilation of Skills, Frameworks, and Tools for Software Development Management (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (April 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• 12 Reasons for Using Kotlin for Android App Development (Ravi Makhija)
• Swift Package Index gains Apple sponsorship and Swift 5.8 Released! (Swift Team)
• Dart 3.0.0 Changelog (Kevin Chisholm)
• Motors in Unity Physics (Amanda Schembri)
• What’s new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries (Marton Braun)
• Try RiderFlow and Share Your Experience With Us (Anna Ruban)
• Game Development Tooling Tutorials – Unity, Unreal Engine, Rider, and RiderFlow (Maarten Balliauw)

Screencasts & Videos

• Enable True Dark Mode with this Screen Brightness Plugin for .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• Why is Scrum so easy to understand but incredibly hard to master? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Native Inline Microsoft Image Creator AI Experience Powered by DALL·E Now In Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
• Technology & Friends – Kevin Grossnicklaus on Low Code No Code Solutions (David Giard)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Chris Klug (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S23:E8 – Empowering the Next Generation of Black Tech Talent (Pariss Chandler) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 122: Coding Hot Takes (Ben Nadel)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Moving Beyond Roadmaps, and Using Data to Drive Decision Making for Agile Product Development | Daniel Westermayr and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Group Mentality vs. Creating Real Agile Product Teams | Daniel Westermayr (Vasco Duarte)
• Meta Cast 246 – Eradicating Agile Nit-Pickers (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Reverse Engineering with Joyce Lin – JavaScript Jabber 577 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• RunAs Radio – Team Metrics with Angela Dugan (Richard Campbell)

Community & Events

• Join us for Oracle Database World London on April 20th (Maria Colgan)
• Run an open source-powered virtual conference! (Máirín Duffy)

Database

• Data Encryption at rest with Customer Managed keys for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Akash Rao)
• ChatGPT – Oracle Deployment in Azure via Azure CLI (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Request external files into SharePoint document libraries (Irfan Shahdad)

PowerShell

• De-hardcoding File Paths Using VbScript and PowerShell Custom Actions (Alex Marin)
• Convert Specific Table of Excel Sheet to JSON (Sonam Rastogi)

Miscellaneous

• PsExec v2.43, Sysmon v14.15, and TCPView v4.19 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Introducing the newest GitHub Shop collection (Chrissy Nasi)
• 4 Maps updates to help you explore U.S. national parks (Michael Curtes)
• Enter for a chance to win this custom Redfall Xbox Series X console (Robert Collins)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3684 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 11, 2023 (#065) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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