Dew Drop – August 23, 2023 (#4010)

Top Links

• Simplified Code Refinement and Debugging with GitHub Copilot Chat (Mark Wilson-Thomas and Mark Downie)
• Adaptive Card-based Loop components – Now in developer preview! (Shubham Chauhan)
• Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization (Stefan Kinnestrand)
• Introducing Microsoft Playwright Testing private preview (Vansh Singh)
• GraphQL-Fusion: An open approach towards distributed GraphQL (Michael Staib)
• Announcing Python in Excel: Next-Level Data Analysis for All (Christian Capdeville)

Web & Cloud Development

• Exploring Blazor Changes in .NET 8 – Capture User Input with Forms and Why to Modernize with Blazor? A Winning Strategy for Your Next Application (Jon Hilton)
• Kubernetes 1.28: Node podresources API Graduates to GA (Francesco Romani)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Customizing the Look and Feel of Components (Assis Zang)
• Introducing Azure Artifacts support for Rust Crates (Jorge Fernandez)
• Structured Logging with slog (Jonathan Amsterdam)
• Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (Azure Team)
• Pulumi adoption made easy with the new Migration Hub (Joe Duffy)
• Microsoft Edge for Business is now available, helping organizations maximize productivity and security (Lindsay Kubasik & Arunesh Chandra)
• Introducing the New Syncfusion Grid Component for Streamlit (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 with Keyboard Accelerators, Fixes and Improvements (Robert Krzaczyński)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Generative Builder Pattern in C# (Bnaya Eshet)
• MiniWord – Microsoft Office Word Templating (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How to Conditionally Resolve Dependencies in .NET (Ahsan Ullah)
• Tree Grid vs. Data Grid: Which One Should You Choose? (Alan Sangeeth)
• MNW #051: Advanced Rate Limiting Use Cases In .NET (Milan Jovanović)
• Dependency Injection: How to Start with Autofac the Easy Way (Nick Cosentino)
• On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 1 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Bottlenecks of Scaleups #05: Resilience and Observability and Strategic Directions supporting the people (Martin Fowler)
• Maximize Your Potential (‘Tine Zekis)
• Adding GitHub repository info, pages links and latest commits to any page using github-include (Chris Heilmann)
• VMware Expands Tanzu into a Full Platform Engineering Environment (Joab Jackson)
• Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture (Stephan Zuercher)
• Microsoft Paint could soon get AI-enhanced features on Windows 11 (Emma Roth)
• Microsoft and Epic expand AI collaboration to accelerate generative AI’s impact in healthcare, addressing the industry’s most pressing needs (Eric Boyd)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Leveraging DevOps for Game Development and Game Development Best Practices & Tools (Claudia Fernandes)
• Unity 2023.3 coming April 2024 with updates for graphics and performance (Ralph Hauwert)
• (Re)defining Superapps (Vivek Mano)

Screencasts & Videos

• Peter Laudati on What the Hack (David Giard)
• Beautiful Blazor UI Everywhere with Telerik | On .NET (Sam Basu)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 481 (Jason Bock)
• Where did AI come from and where is it going? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• What I Wish I Knew … about finding my career path (John Kennedy)
• Windows Terminal’s journey to Open Source | Open at Microsoft (Christopher Nguyen & Dustin Howett)

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio – Microsoft Fabric with Andrew Snodgrass (Richard Campbell)
• React Native Radio 273 – Gluestack with Sanket Sahu (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Sanket Sahu)
• Python Bytes Podcast #349 – Djangonauts: Ready for Takeoff! (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 578: Ori Mankali on Secrets Management using Distributed Fragments Cryptography (Nikhil Krishna)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Native American Tribes and the Post Office (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

• Webinar: How to Build a Conversational Real-Time Analytics App with GenAI (SingleStore)
• If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences (Richard Seroter)

Database

• Navigating SQL Server CPU and Memory Usage Woes (Pinal Dave)
• Query Multiple Azure SQL Databases and Save Results Centrally (Jim Evans)
• Delegating permission management using Roles vs WITH GRANT OPTION (Andreas Wolter)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Send Microsoft Teams activity feed notifications using resource-specific content permissions (Luyao Wang)
• Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel. (Microsoft Excel Team)
• Microsoft Teams Remarkable Journey – Unveiling the Future of Collaboration! (Sam Inogic)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Simplify Your Work with PowerShell Scripts: Running from the Command Line (Joyful Craftsmen)
• How to Use the PowerShell Get-MessageTrace Command in Office 365 (Michael Reinders)
• Create terminal themes from images. Why not? (Maanav Khaitan)

Miscellaneous

• Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac is here, adds Touch ID Windows sign-in and more (Devesh Beri)
• Threads on the web is here (Jay Peters)
• It’s now easier than ever to get Windows apps running on ChromeOS (Jess Weatherbed)
• Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams (Liberty Munson)
• Python 101 – Expanding Paths and Variables (Mike Driscoll)
• A new Atari 2600 will play your old cartridges (Wes Davis)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3765 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – August 22, 2023 (#148) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Ace your Microsoft certification exams! – Microsoft Press Exam Ref Certification eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle & Pearson)