Dew Drop – July 13, 2023 (#3984)

Top Links

• What does Azure AD renamed Microsoft Entra ID mean for .NET developers? (Jeremy Likness)
• Introducing C# 12’s Future Features (Matthew MacDonald)
• Recreating Threads App with .NET MAUI & NEW VS Code Extension! (James Montemagno)
• GitHub merge queue is generally available (Dustin Yin)
• Microsoft Windows App SDK 1.4 Preview 1 Released (Windows App SDK Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS) (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• 7 Tweaks to Make the Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Editor Your Own (Ivan Danchev)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – July 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
• How to Send an SMS or WhatsApp Message with Twilio Functions and TypeScript (Dhruv Patel)
• AD FS to Microsoft Entra | How to migrate your cloud apps (Zachary Cavanell)
• Learn jq the Hard Way,Part IV: Pipes (Ian Miell)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Build a Beautiful Configuration UI for Both Desktop and Mobile with Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Toolbar (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• .NET MAUI on .NET 8 Preview 6 – Android build issue (Vijay Anand E G)
• Userware Launches XAML for Blazor (Vasil Buraliev)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Entity framework features I wish I knew earlier (Tim Deschryver)
• How to Program C# in Visual Studio Code (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Native AOT Advances in .NET 8 Preview 6 (David Ramel)
• Three tricks with Dictionary (Steven Giesel)
• WinForms Scheduler — Bi-Directional Microsoft Office 365 Synchronization (Bogdan Kharchenko)
• #ChatGPT Plugin in NET – Working and Debugging with the Plug-in Dev Tools (Bruno Capuano)
• How to clone a Windows Runtime vector in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Risk Mitigation: Agile Usable Products vs Documentation in Traditional Project Management (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The dominator tree of a dependency graph (Evan Martin)
• Programmers Share Tips and Tricks for Working with AI (David Cassel)
• Microsoft tests an AI hub for the Windows 11 app store (Emma Roth)
• Introducing passwordless authentication on GitHub.com (Hirsch Singhal)
• Create a Semantic Kernel service using minimal API (Kyle Raymond)
• No cyber resilience without open source sustainability (Mike Linksvayer)
• Semantic Kernel Tools: Prompt Engineering for Multiple Endpoints (Shannon Monroe)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• New policy update to boost trust and transparency on Google Play (Kobi Gluck)
• The fundamentals of rewarded video ad placements (Anna Popereko)
• Mobile Developers: Is REST Keeping You Up At Night? (Couchbase Team)

Screencasts & Videos

• Why are some Azure APIs in the Microsoft namespace and others in the Azure namespace? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
• .NET Bootcamp – Session 1 (Women Who Code)
• What I Wish I Knew… about who can be a computer scientist (Tenay)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Fluent Assertions with Dennis Doomen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 639 – Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Preempting System Issues (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 113: Stop Being Nice and Start Leading Kind with Karyn Ross | Award-Winning Author and Leadership Expert (Max Ahumada)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Jason Moore Strikes Again (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Practical AI Podcast – A developer’s toolkit for SOTA AI (Varun Mohan, Anshul Ramachandran & Chris Benson)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Automated DevOps in .NET and Azure Using JetBrains TeamCity Cloud, July 20, 2023 (Olga Bedrina)
• Just Announced: Modernization Through Migration Free Workshops with Blazor and .NET MAUI in September (Galina Jordanowa)

Database

• Compiled Queries with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Solving Quadratic Equations with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3747 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – July 12, 2023 (#120) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link