Dew Drop – August 11, 2023 (#4002)

Top Links

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Introducing TypeChat with Anders Hejlsberg (Scott Hanselman)
• Dynamic Sqlite queries with OpenAI chat functions (Craig Dunn)
• Implementing Data Validation in Excel Cells Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
• Let’s Co-Create! Your Voice Matters (Jason Chlus)
• Android 14 Beta 5 (Dave Burke)
• Announcing NuGet 6.7 – Keeping You Secure (Jon Douglas)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Store Images in SQLite with PHP (Matthew Setter)
• New Raygun JS provider v2.27.0 to support performance timing (Panos Patros)
• Best Practices for Improving the Performance of Your Frontend Code (Gift Egwuenu)
• Automatically Upload Signed Documents to OneDrive with Zapier (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan)
• Collaborating with the Office Performance team for better web performance tools (Patrick Brosset)
• What is OpenAPI? (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Navigating Location on OSM Layer Using the TileLayer of .NET MAUI Maps (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Avalonia 11 Adds New Platform Support (I Programmer)
• UWPSpy – An inspection tool for UWP applications. (Michael Maltsev)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# class named “end” (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
• Refactoring Couplers in C# (Code Maze)
• Speed up Visual Studio load times with Microsoft Dev Box (Greg Denton)
• Support Corner: Protecting .NET Applications That Use Visual Studio Installer Projects (John Brawner)
• JetBrains AI Assistant Update – August 2023 (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Porting Moq to NSubstitute (Steve Smith)
• We’re Rewriting Sdkbin (Aaron Stannard)
• MSVC Address Sanitizer – One DLL for all Runtime Configurations (Amy Wishnousky)
• MNW #050: Mastering Dapper Relationship Mappings (Milan Jovanović)
• Inside STL: The deque, implementation (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Coding assistants do not replace pair programming (Martin Fowler)
• Azure DevOps Pipelines: Practices for Scaling Templates (John Folberth)
• What is an Executive? (Howard Dierking)
• Can AI help close the education gap? Sal Khan thinks so (Bill Gates)
• TypeChat: Define Schemas for Your OpenAI Prompts (Dan Wahlin)
• 10 helpful ways to use Bard (Jenny Blackburn)
• How do you stay up to date on the latest technologies? (Mahesh Chand)
• My Process for Reviewing Pull Requests (Sean Killeen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Find out how Unity Wētā Tools is transforming workflows for artists (Allan Poore)
• Choosing the right storage experience (Yacine Rezgui)

Screencasts & Videos

• Building a Full Stack App with Dart and Flutter | MonoRepo, Melos, and Dart 3 Course (Codepur)
• .NET MAUI and TinyMvvm, Navigation and Parameters (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Create a .NET MAUI Menu Bar on Windows and Mac with Ease (James Montemagno)
• A New Way to SPA in .NET 8 (Isaac Levin)
• If AI is so biased, how can it help with inclusivity? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• What I Wish I Knew… about landing a job in tech (Divya Venkataramu)
• What’s new in Playwright 1.36 & 1.37 (aslushnikov & Debbie O’Brien)

Podcasts

• Web Rush Episode 246: Angular with Emma Twersky (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• InfoQ Podcast: Building and Nurturing Great Teams (Nick van Wiggeren)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy #547 – Ian Livingstone on Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• Directions on Microsoft – Fourteen Years of Microsoft Licensing Rule Changes: Looking Back and Forward (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 598 – Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist (Eira May)
• UX Podcast – The leader’s journey with Donna Lichaw (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• A Developer’s Guide to Implementing a Design System (Part 1) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• The Breakpoint Show Episode 002 – How to find OSS & the .NET Time Loop (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
• UI Breakfast Episode 273: Publishing Options for Authors with Louis Rosenfeld (Jane Portman)
• JS Party Podcast – Take me to Val Town (Steve Krouse, Jerod Santo & Amal Hussein)
• Rocket 450: Leave Section 230 Alone: Alex Winter and The YouTube Effect (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)

Community & Events

• On Moq & SponsorLink: Some thoughts (Oren Eini)
• Statement regarding Moq (.NET Foundation Board)
• Coding with JoeG – Reboot (Joseph Guadagno)

Database

• Introducing Text Indexes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore (Sudhanshu Vishodia)
• How to mitigate the challenges of data growth (Maxime Drobot)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Importing updates into WSUS (Emin Atac)
• Warped Expectations: The Iceberg of UX Ambiguity Behind Synced Inputs (David Melvin)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23521 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2191 and 22631.2191 and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.2213 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – August 10, 2023 (#140) (Richard Seroter)
• Code Maze Weekly #180 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Collective #777 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

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