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Dew Drop – June 6, 2023 (#3958)

Posted on June 6, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

What’s New in SSDT 17.6: Ledger, Performance, Copilot (Subhojit Basak)
Personalize Your WinUI DataGrid: Quick and Simple Customization Techniques (Susmitha Sundar)
Unity runtime on Arm-based Windows devices (Alexandru Marian)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy with Garry Trinder and Waldek Mastykarz (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
New Release: Media Player Element on Mobile, Web, Linux. WebView2 Support (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Primitive Objects In JavaScript: When To Use Them (Part 2) (Kirill Myshkin)
HOWTO: Get access to Azure OpenAI Service in your Azure Commercial instance (Kurt Shintaku)
Localized Application in Blazor WebAssembly (Mahesh Sabnis)
Build a Voicemail Inbox using Twilio Voice and Blazor (Part 2) (Volkan Paksoy)
VS Code and WebAssemblies (Dirk Bäumer)

Visual Studio & .NET

Expression Trees in C# (Code Maze)
Convert string to JSON in C# (Mahesh Chand)
.NET Upgrade Assistant Adds Support For MAUI And Azure Functions (Kay Ewbank)
Introducing Sep – Possibly the World’s Fastest .NET CSV Parser (nietras)
How to add Dependency Injection, Configurations, and Logging in a .NET 7 Console Application (Davide Bellone)
Sign PDF Documents with an X.509 Certificate on a Hardware Device (Bjoern Meyer)
.NET Developer Roadmap 2023 (Claudio Bernasconi)
Windows Dev Drive – Storage Volume Customized for Developers with Improved Performance (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
It’s great that you provide operator overloads, but it’s also nice to have names (Raymond Chen)
Troubleshooting Common Errors and Issues in .NET 7.0 (Talking Dotnet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Why Test-Driven Development? (Part 1) (Alex Bunardzic)
Boost Productivity and Collaboration with Microsoft Edge Workspaces (Kunal Chowdhury)
Announcing the Stale Repos Action (Zack Koppert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset (Adi Robertson)
Using ARMeshManager for Spatial Awareness with MRTK3 on HoloLens 2 (Joost van Schaik)
I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever. (Nilay Patel)

Screencasts & Videos

Sort, Filter & Show Data with this Free DataGrid Control for .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
Live Coding – Adaptive Cards in Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
Doing More with SSR Blazor in .NET 8 (Isaac Levin)
The Remote File Explorer tool window of Visual Studio | Pure Virtual C++ 2023 (Luca Cappa)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Isiah Xavier Bradley (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: The Evolution of Evolutionary Architecture with Rebecca Parsons (Rebecca Parsons)
Merge Conflict 361: WWDC 2023 Recap – Apple Vision Pro & Beyond (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Azure Podcast Episode 463 – OneStream’s journey to Azure (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Syntax Podcast Episode 623 – Nothing in CSS – 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
Meta Cast 254 – The Agile Approach: Navigating Change with Leadership Coach Michelle Pauk (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Sagar Lad: Data DevOps and Security – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 248 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Ego to Collaboration, Embracing Scrum and Overcoming Resistance | Takunda Noha (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – Blogging secrets with Christian Ritter (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 124 – Safe Browsing: Lessons from How Google Secures Five Billion Devices at Low False Positive Rates (Anton Chuvakin)
Changelog News Podcast – Starlight, Knuth asks ChatGPT, Stack Overflow mods strike, Reddit API pricing revolt & open source AI has a new champ (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 577 – MosaicML: Deep learning models for sale, all shapes and sizes (Eira May)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 105: How to Reduce Stress and Improve Daily (Kae Lynne Sapino)

Community & Events

Spotify cuts 200 roles from its podcast division (Jess Weatherbed)
HackTogether: the Microsoft Teams Global Hack keynote recap and what’s coming (Ayca Bas)
Apple WWDC 10 biggest announcements: Vision Pro, MacBook Air, iOS 17, and more (Emma Roth)
I’m doing it my way. Finally. God help me. (Jeremy D. Miller)
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps (Jon Porter)
More ESPN Layoffs Are Coming (Kayla Wassell)
In The Hand joins Neurodiversity in Business (Peter Foot)
What Pride and allyship mean to me by Steve Foreshew-Cain (Steve Foreshew-Cain)
MSVC C++23 Update and Pure Virtual C++ Tomorrow! (Sy Brand)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves Expedia Group board ‘to focus on his other business interests’ (Todd Bishop)
What developers with ADHD want you to know (Eira May)

Database

Starter Metadata T-SQL Query Examples for Databases and Tables (Rick Dobson)

PowerShell

How to Move Files with PowerShell (Thomas Maurer)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for kids (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3720 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-23 (#75) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #106 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – June 5, 2023 (#103) (Richard Seroter)
Daily Links 5 Jun 2023 (Malcolm Jack)
Reading Notes #558 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – June 5, 2023 (#3957)

Posted on June 5, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Enhancing .NET Hot Reload with CreateNewOnMetadataUpdate, MetadataUpdateHandler and MetadataUpdateOriginalType Attributes (Nick Randolph)
Merge Conflict – Teaser: WWDC 2023 Predictions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Creating RESTful APIs with Minimal APIs and Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET (Bruno Sonnino)
Vector Similarity Search with Azure SQL database and OpenAI (Davide Mauri)
Demystifying WebAssembly: What Beginners Need to Know (Robert Kimani)

Web & Cloud Development

Hashtables: A Deep Dive into Efficient Data Storage and Retrieval (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Document Editor Deployment with Docker and Windows Server Core 2019 and 2022 including Fonts (Bjoern Meyer)
How to Pass Parameters With a GET Request in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
ASP.NET Core authorization using Entra External ID CIAM and Azure AD security groups (Damien Bowden)
Apple Passes Asp Net Core Web Api (Samir gc)
Debugging JwtBearer Claim Problems in ASP.NET Core (Tore Nesentius)
ESLint v8.42.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
The many ways to select the n-th character from a string. (Chris Heilmann)
4 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Native App Platform (Guilherme Alvarenga)
Creating Your Own Reports in Your Applications: Getting Started with the Telerik Web Report Designer (Peter Vogel)
GitLab Integration, Improved Main Toolbar Customization, Text Search in Search Everywhere, and More in GoLand 2023.2 EAP #3 (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

SSO and Xamarin forms Implementation (Divikiran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1: Productivity, Cloud and Game Development Enhancements (Almir Vuk)
C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
Refactoring Change Preventers in C# (Code Maze)
Convert a JSON object into a string in C# (Mahesh Chand)
Time abstraction in .NET 8 (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Bing Preview Release Notes: Increasing Chat Turns to 30/300 (Bing Team)
Applying GitOps principles to your operations (Chris Reddington)
Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn? (David Cassel)
The Git repository that vanished (Mark Seemann)
ChatGpt Experiments–Getting Documentation (Steve Jones)
Biases and Fallacies Lead to Smol Thinking (Charlie Kindel)
Monoliths, Microservervices and Mainframes – Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move (Ian Miell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing Firebase and Android Basics with Compose course (Marina Coelho)
Developing “Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone!” (Gina Häußge)
Using ARPlaneManager as an alternative to Scene Understanding with MRTK3 on HoloLens 2 (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

Coding After Work – Refining Themes & Introducing Contextual Search in ‘Next Tech Event’ with Blazor & RavenDB | Part 19 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
Cecil Phillip – Building payment flows with Stripe and Azure – Webinar Recording (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
What’s new in .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Q&A | DIS202H | Microsoft Build 2023 (Microsoft Developer)
Technology & Friends – Pete Rodriguez on a Career in Technology (David Giard)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 458 (Jason Bock)
What I wish I knew… about being a product marketing manager (Divya Venkataramu)

Podcasts

React Native Radio 267 – React Native Windows With Chiara Mooney (Chiara Mooney, Mazen Chami & Jamon Holmgren)
Syntax Podcast Episode 622 – Supper Club × Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit on Github Next (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
PPP 381 | How to Make Wiser Decisions, with Human Performance Expert Dr. Jim Loehr (Andy Kaufman)
AGL: 314 Jeffrey Deckman (John Rouda)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 085 – Cloud Cost Optimization at Avalara with Lindbergh Matillano (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #635 – Low Power Connected Devices with Andrea Longobardi (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Cloud Show with guest star Rik Hepworth (Magnus Mårtensson)
Talk Python to Me #418: How To Keep A Secret in Python Apps (Michael Kennedy)
Tabs and Spaces #306 – Security Schemecurity (feat. Tanya Janca) (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)

Community & Events

Private Beta Update & Roadmap (Bluesky Team)
Meta Requires Office Workers To Return To Desks Three Days a Week (msmash)

Database

SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Failure Notifications (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL SERVER – Reclaiming Space and Performance: Database Backup History (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Build more connections with new communities in Microsoft Teams and GroupMe features (Amit Fulay)

PowerShell

How to enable App Service Proactive Tools via PowerShell (Calvin Cai)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25381 (Brandon LeBlanc)
YouTube will stop removing false presidential election fraud claims (Emma Roth)
Amazon reportedly in talks to bundle mobile phone service as Prime perk (Jon Porter)
Microsoft to kill Cortana app for Windows 10 and 11 later this year (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3719 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #22, 2023 – fsharpConf 2023, June 26 (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #175 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Reading List – June 2, 2023 (#102) (Richard Seroter)
The Overflow #180: The battle for your attention at work (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
C# Digest Issue #457 – June 05, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – June 2, 2023 (#3956)

Posted on June 2, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Announcing an update for .NET Upgrade Assistant with a new CLI tool! (Olia Gavrysh)
Add first-class calling capabilities to your Windows applications. (Jorge Garcia Hirota)
Updated Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders with dark mode and zoom improvements (Dave Grochocki)
Dev Drive: Performance, Security and Control for Developers (Bridget Tueffers)
Build your own app’s copilot on Microsoft Teams with the new Teams AI Library (Daniel Carrasco, Joey Glocke and Ankit Govil)
Announcing TypeScript 5.1 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

Introducing the Vue.js CI/CD series (Alexandre Nedelec)
How to Bind a JavaScript Datagrid to GraphQL Service (Chris Bannon)
Angular Unit Testing With Karma and Jasmine (Haresh Kumbhani)
Docker Desktop 4.20: Docker Engine and CLI Updated to Moby 24.0 (Lorena Rangel Hernandez)
Quick Tip: Shipping Resilient CSS Components (Stephanie Eckles)
Blazor Basics: Getting Started with Blazor Development in Visual Studio 2022 (Claudio Bernasconi)
How Postman uses JSON Schema (Juan Cruz Viotti)
Advancing the future of the internet with the ‘Photoshop of software’ (Kristina Bravo)
What Web Development Standards Should You Follow for Effective Websites? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Brave Browser Now Features Vertical Tabs For Desktop Users (msmash)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Visualize the Transfer Spending and Earning among the Football League Clubs Using WPF Scatter Chart (Nanthini Mahalingam)
Implement navigation between two pages (Microsoft Learn)
Time Regions in .NET MAUI Scheduler—An Overview (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Build Dynamic Queries With Expression Trees in C# (Code Maze)
Pure Virtual C++: CMake Debugger, Build Insights in Visual Studio, and more (Sy Brand)
C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
Modern UI with the WinForms RadToolbarForm (Hristo Merdjanov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps – Library Variables, Stages and Release Scope–Did you know? (Kevin LaBranche)
A guide to Generative AI terminology (Colin Eberhardt)
Introducing Trello Dark Mode (Lauren Moon)
Essential GUI design principles (Eric Chung)
What is High-Performance Coaching? (JD Meier)
Monitor Your TeamCity Builds with Datadog CI Visibility (Olga Bedrina)
Testing in Production (Shrini Kulkarni)
Highlights from Git 2.41 (Taylor Blau)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Upcoming changes to InAppProducts API and subscription catalog management (Rejane Franca & Serge Beauchamp)
Made with Unity Monthly: May 2023 roundup (Unity Community Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Three apps for building team culture in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Road to Entrepreneurship with Nanxi Liu (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Process to Habit, How to unlock Scrum Master success | Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse (Vasco Duarte)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Teams Toolkit v5 with John Miller (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
Rocket 440: Build-ing a Mystery (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #542 – Bill Fawcett on Robert Asprin (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 576 – Balancing a PhD program with a startup career (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 236: Astro 2.5 with Alvin Bryan (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
PowerShell News Podcast Episode 061 – Interview with James Petty and Missy Januszko (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
JS Party Podcast – Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)

Community & Events

The 16th Annual Regular Expression Day – June 1st 2023 (Ben Nadel)
Microsoft celebrates Pride by donating to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits and inviting everyone to make Pride with open-source campaign (Chris Capossela)
Microsoft Build 2023 recap (Guy Merin)
Let’s get personal: computing has won a Telly award (Jim Bennett)
Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers (Klint Finley)
Stack Overflow: Building a safer community: Announcing our new Code of Conduct (Philippe Beaudette)
OpenAI cybersecurity grant program (Bob Rotsted, Girish Sastry, Harold Nguyen, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro & Joel Parish)
Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has resigned (Jay Peters)

Database

Creating a date dimension or calendar table in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER 2022 – Last Valid Restore Time – Improved Backup Metadata (Pinal Dave)
Masking Columns in Azure SQL and SQL Server: Safeguarding Sensitive Data (Josephine Bush)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint roadmap pitstop: May 2023 (Mark Kashman)
Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17.3 for Microsoft 365 extensibility (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell

What is my PowerShell script doing? (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? (Bill Gates)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23471 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1830 and 22631.1830 (Brandon LeBlanc)
VW ID Buzz debuts three-row electric Microbus for the US with more power and space (Daniel Golson)
Announcing Rust 1.70.0 (Rust Release Team)
Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Read a CSV File (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3718 (Chris Alcock)
.NET Annotated Monthly | June 2023 (Rachel Appel)
Daily Reading List – June 1, 2023 (#101) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #767 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)

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