Dew Drop – May 10, 2023 (#3940)

Top Links

• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and 2023 Microsoft Work Trend Index (Jared Spataro)
• Language models can explain neurons in language models (Jan Leike, Jeffrey Wu, Steven Bills, William Saunders, Leo Gao, Henk Tillman & Daniel Mossing)
• Do you really need MVVM? (Matt Lacey)
• What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components version 2.3.0 (Vincent Baaij)
• Upcoming availability of .NET Framework 4.8.1 on Windows Update and Catalog (Brett Lopez)

Web & Cloud Development

• Blazor Basics: What is Blazor—Introduction to Blazor Development (Claudio Bernasconi)
• An Introduction to Container Queries in CSS (Stephanie Eckles)
• Understanding Kubernetes: A Developer’s Guide to Containerized Applications (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Manage Vite Assets Like A Pro (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Migrating comments from Disqus to giscus (Andrew Lock)
• Microsoft Purview: Comprehensive solutions for data governance, protection, compliance & management. (Jaswant Singh)
• API Security Checklist: How to Protect Your APIs (John Iwuozor)
• From a Desktop App to Web App: How To Start the Transition? (Katie Mikova)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Toast in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Multidimensional Array vs Jagged Array in C# (Dusko Mirkovic)
• 7 Things about C#: The Platform and 7 Things about C#: Introduction (Joe Mayo)
• What are the duck-typing requirements of MFC IPTR? (Raymond Chen)
• How to start using .NET Background Services (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Myths about F#: F#’s strict ordering is dumb! No, it’s great for taming dependencies. (Urs Enzler)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 (Gloridel Morales)
• You Are MORE than Enough (‘Tine Zekis)
• An open proposal to OpenAI, Bard, Amazon, et al…: GPTeachers (Chris Heilmann)
• How companies are boosting productivity with generative AI (Chris Reddington)
• How To Use AI Tools To Skyrocket Your Programming Productivity (Shane Duggan)
• In the middle of planning (Eric Brechner)
• How To Balance Your Vision with Customer Needs (JD Meier)
• Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language (Joe Duffy)
• How to fix a ReDoS (Kevin Backhouse)
• GitHub Code Search and Code View: A New Era of Code Intelligence (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Work Trend Index: AI will work alongside employees (Megan Crouse)
• Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories (Zain Malik)
• The New Learning Center Is Now Available in TeamCity Cloud (Olga Bedrina)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introducing the new Google Pay button view on Android (Jose Ugia)
• Kotlin News: 1.8.20 Release, KotlinConf Keynote, Redesigned Mascot, Kotlin Foundation News, and More (Daria Voronina)
• Now available: Sponza scene remaster for Unity devs (Kristijonas Jalnionis)

Screencasts & Videos

• Server-Side Render Blazor Apps in .NET 8 (Isaac Levin)
• Building an app with .NET MAUI and Telerik Components – Part 2 – Charts (Daniel Hindrikes)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 454 (Jason Bock)
• Learn About Windows on Arm with the NPU-accelerated Windows Arm Developer Kit | Let’s Get Personal : Computing (Jim Bennett & Ivette Carreras)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S24:E1 – From Customer Service to Code (Tae’lur Alexis) (CodeNewbie Team)
• RunAs Radio – Azure Virtual Desktop Accelerator with Jen Sheerin (Richard Campbell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Challenging the Team, The Scrum Master’s Role as a Change Agent | Manuele Piastra (Vasco Duarte)
• The ReadME Podcast – The open/closed equilibrium (Avi Press, Jessica Januik, Ben Johnson, Martin Woodward, Kelsey Hightower & Neha Batra)
• Azure Podcast Episode 459 – AIOps (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Chris O’Dell (Isaac Levin)
• Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Engineering the Digital Future with Matt Zimmermann (Rob Slaughter)

Community & Events

• Free Webcast Next Week! What’s New (and Actually Good) in SQL Server 2022 (Brent Ozar)
• LinkedIn Will Cut Over 700 Jobs Worldwide and Shut Its China App (msmash)

Database

• New SQL Server Feature – WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY option to create indexes (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SUBSTRING Function Code Examples (Rajendra Gupta)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams apps now available in public preview in the Microsoft 365 iOS app (Sheena Makker)
• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17.2 for Microsoft 365 extensibility (Vesa Juvonen)
• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and new capabilities in Copilot (Colette Stallbaumer)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Porting System.Web.Security.Membership.GeneratePassword() to PowerShell (Francisco Nabas)
• Restart Mac From Command Line (David Walsh)

Miscellaneous

• right person (ThreddyRex)
• Astronomers claim to have solved mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1755 and 22624.1755 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Firefox 113 significantly boosts accessibility performance (Kristina Bravo)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3702 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – May 9, 2023 (#085) (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