Dew Drop – May 25, 2023 (#3951)

Top Links

• Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes! (Grace Taylor)
• A New PowerToys Awake Is Out (Den Delimarsky)
• Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• How to use plugins with Semantic Kernel (Nilesh Acharya)
• How to Handle the Safe Area Layout for .NET MAUI in iOS (Leomaris Reyes)

Web & Cloud Development

• Announcing Azure AI Content Safety (Azure Team)
• 8 Free and Open Source Blazor UI Libraries (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Building a Single-Page Application with Vue and Kendo UI (Ezekiel Lawson)
• WebKit and web-platform-tests (Anne Van Kesteren)
• Microsoft Build 2023: Announcing new identity, compliance, and security features from Microsoft Security (Joy Chik)
• Pulumi Release Notes: Resource Search, Deployment Actions, Projects in Self-Managed Backends, and more (Meagan Cojocar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Using System.Text.Json for Camel Case Serialization (Code Maze)
• Introducing Auth0 Templates for .NET (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Don’t name your header file security.h either (Raymond Chen)
• Today’s random F# code: one-line unit tests (Urs Enzler)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• DirectML Unlocks New AI Silicon for Adobe (Jonah Dykhuizen)

Screencasts & Videos

• Trouble Connecting to Localhost? Try Visual Studio Dev Tunnels! (Gerald Versluis)
• A lap around the Microsoft Store CLI | OD36 | Microsoft Build 2023 (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
• Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Pre-Conference Videos (Sy Brand)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – PHP and WebAssembly with Jakub Míšek (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• React Server Components: Part 2- JavaScript Jabber 583 (Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Complete Developer Podcast – API Anti-Patterns (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 103: Increase Velocity to Land Your Dream Career with Gina Riley | Talent Expert and Career Coach (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Database

• ISJSON enhancements in SQL Server for valid JSON format for a Value, Array or Object (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Embed C# in the heart of the SQL Query Engine (Mihailo Joksimovic)
• Leveraging Hierarchical Partition Keys in Azure Cosmos DB (Leonard Lobel)
• What’s new in Couchbase Server 6.6 and 7.0 Keynote (Jeff Morris)

PowerShell

• Azure CLI supports Tab Completion on PowerShell (Jeremy Li)

Miscellaneous

• ZoomIt v7.0 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23466 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• How to use marketing techniques to build a better resume (Caroline Thomas)
• paint.net 5.0.6 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3713 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – May 24, 2023 (#096) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link