Dew Drop – June 16, 2023 (#3966)

Top Links

• Introducing the Microsoft Store channel on Discord (Sergio Pedri)
• Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C# (Maarten Balliauw)
• JetchatAI gets smarter with embeddings (Craig Dunn)
• Building Intelligent Applications with OpenAI and C#: A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Started (Neel Bhatt)
• Fluid Framework 2.0 Alpha is now available (Kashif Qureshi and Nick Simons)

Web & Cloud Development

• ASP.NET Core 8: Expose Timestamp data request processing with IHttpSysRequestTimingFeature when using HTTP.sys (Anthony Giretti)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Create a Beautiful ASP.NET Core Application (Assis Zang)
• How to Use Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core WebAPI (Claudio Bernasconi)
• How to Add a CSS Reveal Animation to Your Images (Temani Afif)
• Step-by-Step Guide: Testing HTTP Endpoints in Visual Studio 2022 Using Endpoints Explorer (Andy Goncalves)
• HTTP and ETag Header Fields (Peter Ritchie)
• Understanding TypeScript’s Powerful Type Assertions Through Practical Examples (Peter Kellner)
• Skilling snack: Do more with Microsoft Graph (Angie Chen)
• Introducing tags: the new way to navigate in Postman (Aravind Arunachalam)
• APIs Done Right (Emily Penn-Tonkin)
• The Developer role in Postman can now manage groups (John Offenhartz)
• Building Beautiful Login Pages with Auth0 (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Accelerate your API-first journey with Postman’s new Enterprise solutions (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• How to Create Sliding Tiles in Your WPF Application (Greg Lutz)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Pie Chart to Illustrate US Methane Emissions in 2021 (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
• Windows App SDK Stable Channel Release Notes – Version 1.3.2 (1.3.230602002) (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Conditionally Show/Hide Data in C# .NET .docx Word Report Templates (Shilpa Sharma)
• Configure Visual Studio policies using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) (Christine Ruana)
• How to Get Class Name as String in C# (Code Maze)
• Refreshing CNTK with CUDA 11.8 for Ada Lovelace support (nietras)
• The case of the invalid handle despite being managed by an RAII type (Raymond Chen)
• Build Insights Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 (Nelson Daniel Troncoso)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• The Evidence To Look For In A Successful Agile Transformation (Karl Scotland)
• Execute commands using your project dependencies (Alexandre Nedelec)
• How to Fix the “There is a problem with this Windows Installer package” Error (Alex Marin)
• How To Write Code Documentation (Gilad David Maayan)
• How to use Google Bard with Google Sheets (Andy Wolber)
• Improving Developer Experience in a Small Organization (Ben Linders)
• Trello and Confluence: The perfect teamwork combo (Lauren Moon)
• OpenAI Unveils Function Calling — Yet Another Breakthrough! (Munish Munagala)
• CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL (Sylwia Budzynska)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Swift OpenAPI Generator Aims at Streamlining HTTP Client/Server Communication (Sergio De Simone)
• The Native App vs Progressive Web App Debate is Completely Flawed (Max Lynch)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 160 – The Beauty of Analog in a Digital World (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• How do I use C# and .NET with SQLite? | On .NET (Jiachen Jiang)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Towards a better Data Platform with Danica Fine (Scott Hanselman)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 580 – Pair programing? We peek under the hood of Duet, Google’s coding assistant. (Ben Popper)
• Web Rush Episode 238: Rise and Fall of JavaScript Libraries with Chris Ferdinandi (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• PPP 382 | Balancing the Now and the Future: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today, with author Hal Hershfield (Andy Kaufman)
• Authorization in Software Podcast – Real Time Authorization with Atul Tulshibagwale (David Schenkelman)
• The Changelog Podcast – Passkeys for a passwordless future (Anna Pobletts, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• JS Party Podcast – It’s all part of the process (Kevin Ball, Amal Hussein & Christopher Hiller)
• Rocket 442: Reddit Black-out (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #543 – Awesome 70s Science Fiction Movies (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Tom Gerencer) (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry (Matt Ray)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Good to Great, Secrets of Successful Product Owners | Mirela Mus (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Build 2023 Hero Announcements (Cecilie Bergendorff)
• Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (Jay Peters)

Database

• Cumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Harvey Mora)
• Cumulative Update #21 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Hristina Sarankin)
• SQL SERVER Challenge – Cumulative Total Calculation (Pinal Dave)
• Working with MySQL transactions (Robert Sheldon)
• Connecting to Azure SQL DB with an Azure Active Directory Account in Azure Data Studio (Josephine Bush)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Now in public preview: Collaborative notes in Microsoft Teams Meetings (Alexis Johnston)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1900 and 22631.1900 and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.2121 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to create a TCP Server (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3728 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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