Month: September 2023

Top Links

• Introducing Unix Domain Socket binding support in CoreWCF and WCF Client (Biroj Nayak)
• Bring your existing .NET Microsoft Teams app to Teams Toolkit in Visual Studio 2022 | On .NET (James Montemagno & Garry Trinder)
• Enhanced Windows 365 App Experience – Re-imagining mobile productivity (Catalin Ionescu & Sneha Sultania)
• Chris “Woody” Woodruff: Network Programming – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 262 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Integrating C++ header units into Office using MSVC (2/n) (Cameron DaCamara & Zachary Henkel)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Authenticate a Blazor Server App with Azure AD (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Announcing overridable client configuration in the AWS SDK for Kotlin (Ian Botsford)
• HTML5 Template: A Basic Boilerplate for Any Project (Louis Lazaris & Dianne Pena)
• Introducing Right-to-Left (RTL) Support with Blazor (Radko Stanev)
• Blazor Grid — Virtual Scrolling CTP (v23.1) (Svetlana Mikheeva)
• Generate C# Client API for ASP.NET Core Web API (Zijian)
• Gradients, Blend Modes, And A Really Cool Hover Effect (Preethi Samathanam)
• Testing APIs in Postman using advanced OAuth flows (Jonas Inggbom)
• Announcing SpaacedOut Gem Jekyll Theme v1.3.7 (Jason Gaylord)
• Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth (Monish Koppa)
• Resiliency at Scale for Web Service (Sridevia Ishwariya)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Are You Prepared for the End of Xamarin Support? (J. Tower)

Visual Studio & .NET

• What’s New for GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code v1.82 (David Ramel)
• How to Use Stopwatch in C# (Code Maze)
• OOP and Interfaces in C#: How To Use Them Effectively (Nick Cosentino)
• Dotnet Tool Component not found on the Mac (Rick Strahl)
• Creating custom debug visualizers for Visual Studio 2022 (Thomas Ardal)
• Don’t Build Your Own Bespoke Company Frameworks on Top of Akka.NET (Aaron Stannard)
• Listing Windows virtual desktops using .NET (Gérald Barré)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Mocking async openai package calls with pytest (Pamela Fox)
• Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware (Raymond Chen)
• Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines (Eric van Wijk)
• Install Playwright and Visual Studio Code (hambalee)
• Filtering negative numbers, fast: Scalar (Oren Eini)
• Bing Chat Enterprise now has user-level admin controls plus your data questions answered (Aleenah Ansari)
• The Power of Positive Thinking: Embracing Counter Ideas (Dave Ward)
• Evolutionary testing strategy (Gayathri Mohan & Jonathan Deeming)
• Go Prompt Yourself (JD Meier)
• Platform Engineering Demands a Product Mindset (Jennifer Riggins)
• Deploy AI Models on Amazon SageMaker using Pulumi Python IaC (Kat Morgan)
• A first stab at the Brainfuck kata (Mark Seemann)
• The Power of a Well Written User Story – A Test Engineer’s Perspective (Shikha Nandal)
• Sharpening the Axe of Productivity (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AdDuplex Post-Mortem. Part 6: Pivots (Alan Mendelevich)

Screencasts & Videos

• Discovering Multi Triggers – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Chad Brown (Maurice Cherry)
• Merge Conflict 375: Buying an electric vehicle in 2023 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 665 – CSS Nesting is Here! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Critical Impact of Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Agile Projects | Toby Rao (Vasco Duarte)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 138 – Terraform for Security Teams: How to Use IaC to Secure the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Exploring PowerShell, Braid, and beyond with Bruce Payette (James Petty)
• SQL Server Radio Episode 156 – Back to School with Encryption as a Tool (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• Authorization in Software Podcast – Authorization at Workday (Jennifer Wong)
• Meta Cast 263 – The Road to Entrepreneurship: Part 4 – Making A Lasting Impression (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Bun 1.0 is here & Mojo is ready for download (Jerod Santo)
• Design Details 462: Refactoring a Design System (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• The Amp Hour #646 – Fan Fanboys (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Talk Python to Me #429: Taming Flaky Tests (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• All the big conferences and events in tech, entertainment, and automotive coming this fall (Umar Shakir)
• Surface Pro and Laptop upgrades may be missing from Microsoft’s Sept. 21 event (Kareem Anderson)
• Remembering September 11, 2001 (New York Mets)

Database

• Why NOLOCK Is My Favorite SQL Server Query Hint (Erik Darling)
• SQL SERVER – Performance: OR vs IN – A Summary and Further Reading (Pinal Dave)
• Query Performance Degraded after Rebuilding Clustered Columnstore Index (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
• Introducing Graph Semantics in Kusto, a new way to contextualize time series data (Azure Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Announcing Microsoft Teams Webhook Integration for Pulumi Cloud (Komal Ali)
• UseRemoteAPIs functionality change in Microsoft SharePoint (Patrick Rodgers)

Miscellaneous

• From tipping point to turning point: Charting new pathways for rebuilding local news (Ginny Badanes)
• Beta version of Microsoft Designer for Android now available on Google Play Store (Devesh Beri)
• The Challenge of IP Reputation (Eric Lawrence)
• Link Building for Non-Scumbags: Build Authority Without Being Awful (Erik Dietrich)
• Updates on the new Outlook for Windows (Gabriel Valdez Malpartida)
• Microsoft To Kill Off Third-Party Printer Drivers in Windows (msmash)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3778 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-37 (#89) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #117 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – September 11, 2023 (#159) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #571 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

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