I’ll be traveling to VSLive Chicago early next week. No Dew Drop posts on Monday and Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, definitely back on Thursday.
Top Links
- An even DEEPER Dive into LINQ with Stephen Toub | On .NET and Open Sourcing DOS 4 (Scott Hanselman)
- What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04 (Richard Lander)
- Uno Platform 5.2 Webinar (Uno Platform Team)
- Introducing API Manifest Plugins for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
- Announcing TypeScript 5.5 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes 1.30: Multi-Webhook and Modular Authorization Made Much Easier (Rita Zhang, Jordan Liggitt, Nabarun Pal & Leigh Capili)
- Pulumi: Introducing the new Docker Build provider (Bryce Lampe)
- Blazor Basics: Localization Using Resource Files (Claudio Bernasconi)
- How to boost the font size of emoji in CSS with no extra markup (Geoff Graham)
- The first framework that lets you visualize your React/NodeJS app’s code (Vince Canger)
- Astro 4.7 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore, Bjorn Lu & Sarah Rainsberger)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Collection Performance: Is LINQ Always the Most Performant Choice? (David McCarter)
- How to Create a Zip File in Memory In C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
- Create Excel Table in Just 3 Steps Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
- Visual Studio features for C++ Header Files and Modules (Mryam Girmay)
- Full Stack Hands-On Development with .NET (David Ramel)
- Document Viewer: Long Polling Support for Loading Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
- Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 7 (Raymond Chen)
- C# DateTime Format In A Nutshell (NDepend Team)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Running a GitHub Actions workflow that doesn’t exist yet on the default branch (Thomas Levesque)
- Gather AI Insights From Video Calls with Vision AI and the Video API (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Warp’s Team plan for developer productivity is available today (Melanie Crissy)
- How BoldSign Improved HR Operations at Syncfusion (Syncfusion HR Team)
- Introducing Infra Copilot – Unleashing GitHub Copilot for Infrastructure as Code (Murugesan U.)
- Why we suck at estimating software projects (Nick Hodges)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing Appflow CLI 1.0 (Ashwini Shukla)
Screencasts & Videos
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Acquisition in Visual Studio | Pure Virtual C++ (Elizabeth Morrow)
- Approximate Vector Search with KMeans and Azure SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- How can I get started with .NET? | One Dev Question (Jaime Singleton)
- Random.Code() – Handling Name Collisions in Rocks (Jason Bock)
- Importing Managed Solutions – What has changed to the Upgrade verses Update Process? | The Low Code Revolution (Scott Durow & Shan McArthur)
- Microsoft Build Unplugged, Episode Five: Session catalog is LIVE! (Ed Donahue & Microsoft MVPs)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Innovation in Accessibility with Fable’s Kate Kalcevich (Scott Hanselman)
- JS Party Podcast – A Solid primer on Signals (Ryan Carniato, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
- Directions on Microsoft – More Microsoft End-of-Life Meteors Appear on the Horizon (Mary Jo Foley)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050 (Eira May)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode 019 – Landing Your Dream Job (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 464 – Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game (Coté)
Community & Events
- Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site ‘The Onion’ (BeauHD)
- Microsoft Semantic Kernel Hits 1,000,000 Downloads (Evan Chaki)
- BlizzCon won’t happen in 2024 (Graham Smith)
- Microsoft results beat expectations as profits rise 20% to nearly $22B (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft’s Surface and Xbox hardware revenues take a big hit in Q3 (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft Earnings Beat All Expectations as AI Bet Pays Off (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: Conditional Join and Where Clauses (Erik Darling)
- First Class Event Subscriptions in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Why migrate Windows Server and SQL Server to Azure: ROI, innovation, and free offers (Bob Ward & Jeff Woolsey)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
- Introducing Okta’s Official PowerShell Module (E. Dunham)
Miscellaneous
- What language should beginning programmers choose? (Ryan Donovan)
- Haunted by repeated breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft needs to win back trust (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3927 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – April 25, 2024 (#305) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading List 317 (Bruce Lawson)
The Geek Shelf
Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link