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Dew Drop – May 15, 2023 (#3943)

Posted on May 15, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Introducing Dart | Windows (Tim Sneath)
Windows App SDK Stable Channel Release Notes – Version 1.3.1 (1.3.230502000) (Microsoft Learn)
Uno.Resizetizer for Automated Image Resizing in Cross-Platform .NET Apps (Uno Platform Team)
Introducing Deopt Explorer (Ron Buckton)
Level up your GPT game with prompt engineering (Luis Quintanilla)

Web & Cloud Development

Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python (Azure Team)
Embracing the fold: Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices With CSS (Stephanie Stimac)
Fixing Angular Standalone Components that have a circular dependency (Tim Deschryver)
Kubernetes 1.27: updates on speeding up Pod startup (Paco Xu, Sergey Kanzhelev & Ruiwen Zhao)
How to Secure Azure OpenAI Keys Using Environment Variables, Azure Vault, and Streamlit Secrets (Ajit Dash)
Use Azure PIM with groups in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
Angular Basics: A Primer for Getting Started with TypeScript in Angular (John Au-Yeung)
Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries (Mario Guerra)
Transcribe phone calls in real time with Twilio, Vosk, and ASP.NET Core (Mark Heath)
#CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions (Marco Siccardi)
Angular v16 Has Arrived (Signals and Wsshh! Sounds) (Petar Grigorov)
Introducing Postbot, Postman’s new AI assistant (Abhijit Kane)
Announcing the new lightweight Postman API Client and sunsetting Scratch Pad (Abhinav Asthana)
New TLDs: Not Bad, Actually (Eric Lawrence)
How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension (Rizel Scarlett)
The GoLand 2023.2 Early Access Program Has Started! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Windows App SDK Version 1.3.1 Release: Critical Bug Fixes and Improvements for Developers (Kunal Chowdhury)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# HashSet: A Comprehensive Guide (Anoop Kumar)
Getting Started With GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code (Kingsley Ubah)
Implementing WinUI/Fluent into Visual Studio (Nick Randolph)
What are the duck-typing requirements of wil com_ptr? (Raymond Chen)
Folders versus namespaces (Mark Seemann)
URI Encode and Decode in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Why Care About Your Purpose, Mission, and Vision? (J.D. Meier)
Bing Preview Release Notes: Images in Chat Answers, and More (Bing Team)
Designing Sticky Menus: UX Guidelines (Vitaly Friedman)
Improving Productivity Using the 3 M’s. (Jamie Maguire)
How to release value to customers faster, safer, easier (Matt Hilbert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter 4.0 New Features (Sajjad Daved)
Why Dart May Be The Most Important Language In Programming (Andrew Zuo)

Screencasts & Videos

The Simplest Way to List Data in ASP.NET (Isaac Levin)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 155 – More With Less (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
GCast 148: Working with ChatGPT (David Giard)
How do I set up MRTK3 in Unity and Enable OpenXR Settings for HoloLens? | One Dev Q&A (Zaid Zaim)
OpenAI – Setting Up a New Account (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Blog Videos)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 455 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Hiring and Growing Great Site Reliability Engineers (Narayanan Raghavan)
OnPodcast Ep. 113: Microsoft secures AI Chat, Windows 11 Widgets get updates, ASUS Ally specs (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Merge Conflict 358: Google I/O 2023 Recap – AI , Dark Mode (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: Google I/O highlights, AI risks and rewards, and the future of creativity (Todd Bishop)
What it Takes to be a DevOps Engineer – Adventures in DevOps 162 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Customer-Centric Product Ownership, and how it grows the product IQ of the Scrum team | Manuele Piastra (Vasco Duarte)
Fragmented – An Android Developer Podcast #245: Treehouse, Redwood and Zipline with Colin White (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 083 – Decoding the Future of Safe and Efficient Programming with Rust and Tim McNamara (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #632 – Steve Sanghi – Microchip CEO for 31 Years! (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 267: Content Testing with Erica Jorgensen (Jane Portman)
Modern Databases with Ryan Booz – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 245 (Jeffrey Palermo)
AGL 311: Identity Management with Kevin Dominik Korte (John Rouda)
PowerShell News Podcast Episode 050 – Interview with James Backman from ConFreaks and PowerShell News Podcast Episode 051 – Interview with Patrick Callihan, Heidi Erpelding-Welch, & Jasmine Swint with TechImpact (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Gitlab vs Github, AI vs Microservices (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
JS Party Podcast – Making web art the hard way (Alex Miller, Jerod Santo & Amelia Wattenberger)

Community & Events

Android 14 played a surprisingly small role in Google’s I/O keynote (Allison Johnson)
Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (Waldek Mastykarz)
Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day (Marcia Villalba)
Microsoft Maps Roadshow in Amsterdam June 7, 2023 (Bing Team)
Microsoft Build 2023: Innovation through Microsoft commercial marketplace (Kristin Gallagher)
Sparking the Passions of Young Coders With Code Nation (Kristin Kaeding)
Becoming a Microsoft MVP (Steven Giesel)
Meet Studio +254: UX Researcher, Amina Hassan Said Islam (Microsoft Design Team)

Database

Script to Decode SQL Server Locking and Blocking Wait Resources (Eric Blinn)
The Importance of SQL Server Performance Tuning in the Cloud (Matthew McGiffen)
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early-May 2023 (Azure Team)
A few notes on running open source project after Marten v6 release (Oskar Dudycz)
Open Source MongoDB Alternative FerretDB Now Generally Available (Renato Losio)
Beyond Relational with Traditional Databases – Working with JSON, Spatial data and Full-Text Search (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

PowerShell

Running PowerShell as Scheduled Task without window popping up (Daniel Fisher)
Passing variables between PowerShell file tasks in classic Azure DevOps pipelines (Kevin LaBranche)

Miscellaneous

raises (ThreddyRex)
Sharing Variables between Languages with Polyglot Notebooks (Matt Eland)
Twitter’s new CEO is Linda Yaccarino, a longtime ad exec for NBCU (Emma Roth)
Prosecutors in Colorado conduct in-depth data analysis to help reduce racial disparities (Merisa Heu-Weller)
paint.net 5.0.4 beta (build 8529) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3705 (Chris Alcock)
Dev News: Dart 3 Meets Wasm, Flutter 3.10, and Qwik ‘Streamable JavaScript’ (Loraine Lawson)
The Overflow #177: The AI is the UI (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Code Maze Weekly #172 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #454 – May 15, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #19, 2023 – Microsoft Build 2023, May 23-24 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – May 12, 2023 (#088) (Richard Seroter)
Reading List 304 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, 7th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 12, 2023 (#3942)

Posted on May 12, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Marten V6 is Out! And the road to Wolverine 1.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Budding love for compose animation (Kristen Halper)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Build a Complete CRUD Application with VS Code (Assis Zang)
MAUI App Accelerator – Version 1.2.4 released (Matt Lacey)
Surround selection experiment (Mads Kristensen)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating a Custom React Context Provider (Peter Kellner)
Support Auth0 in Azure Static Web Apps for Blazor WebAssembly Apps (Andrea Chiarelli)
JavaScript Closures: Understanding Private Variables, Callbacks, and Memoization for Efficient Code (Hussaini Ahmed)
View Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Files in Angular Application (Johnson Manohar)
Docker Init: Initialize Dockerfiles and Compose files with a single CLI command (Marc Sherwood)
Create a PDF Digital Signature Web Service Using Azure Key Vault and the Syncfusion C# PDF Library (Praveenkumar)
Azure Developer CLI (azd) – May 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
jQuery 3.7.0 Released: Staying in Order (Timmy Willison)
The Atomic Waltz: Unraveling WebAssembly Issues in V8 and SpiderMonkey (Dominic Elm)
Contributing to WebKit (Anna van Kesteren)
Using Statiq, a .NET Static Content Generator (Jason Gaylord)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Improve WPF Datagrid Performance with 2D Cell Rendering (Alvaro Rivoir)
Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Column Chart to Visualize Yearly Box Office Data (Karthikeyan V.)

Visual Studio & .NET

Globalizing Strings in Microsoft .NET C# with the Multilingual App Toolkit (David McCarter)
Go for C# developers: defer is not IDisposable (cellfish)
What are the duck-typing requirements of WRL ComPtr? (Raymond Chen)
Azure Pipelines with TX Text Control .NET for WPF and Windows Forms 31.0 with Azure DevOps and Artifacts (Bjoern Meyer)
Introducing Polyglot Notebooks – Mixing together documentation and dotnet into an analytics notebook (Matt Eland)
Microsoft.Identity.Client Namespace docs (Microsoft Learn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit Testing and Mocking Made Simple: A Look at Unit Testing Company’s New Movies (Eli Lopian)
Unit Tests – Web Development with Clojure, Third Edition — by Dmitri Sotnikov, Scot Brown (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Deep Learning – Overfitting, Generalization, & the Bias-Variance Tradeoff (Exxact Team)
4 Core Principles of GitOps (Alex Williams)
How to Improve Testing by Using a Gentle Nudge (Ben Linders)
Navigation and search improvements for accessibility (Benjamin Allen)
Abstractions to easily swap implementations? Not so fast. (Derek Comartin)
Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer’s color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive (Lukas Oppermann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Automatically deploy to Google Play Store with GitHub Actions and the Ionic Cloud CLI (Cecelia Martinez)
Ionic + Kapa.ai: The Advanced AI Bot to Assist Developers (Michael Ellis)

Screencasts & Videos

Azure PostgreSQL Migration Extension (Assessments) for Azure Data Studio (Preview) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
How do I delete a user in Azure AD B2C using custom policies? | One Dev Question (Rory Braybrook)
How do I change the favicon in Power Pages? | One Dev Question (Ragavan Rajan)
Developer Tools That Shouldn’t Be Secrets – Video (Christian Heilmann)

Podcasts

.NET Core Podcast – Managing Dependencies with M. Scott Ford (Jamie Taylor)
Developer Tea – Focus on Process Orientation for Goal Setting (Jonathan Cutrell)
CppCast – Conan 2.0 (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Computing History with Atari and Commodore’s Leonard Tramiel (Scott Hanselman)
Practical AI Podcast – The last mile of AI app development (Travis Fischer, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Rocket 437: Puff Peace (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 570 – Stung by OWASP? Chatting with the creator of the most popular web app scanner (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 233: Just a Girl Building an Empire (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Python Bytes Podcast #335 – Should you get your mojo on? (Michael Kennedy)
Software Defined Talk Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices (Brandon Whichard & Cote)

Community & Events

Twitter’s new CEO is probably this NBC exec (Alex Heath)
Better Together, Impossible Alone: Trello recap at Team ’23 (Erika Storli)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2023 Now Open (Matthew Groves)
Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft (Nilay Patel)

Database

Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
SQL Wildcard Examples using SQL LIKE (Joe Gavin)
Implementing Temporal Tables Where You Have Existing Data (Matthew McGiffen)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1776 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.3030 to Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.2001 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms (Cory Doctorow)
Artifact is taking on Twitter and Substack by letting you follow writers (Jay Peters)
First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft eyes partnership with Firefox to make Bing its primary search engine (Priya Walia)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3704 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #764 (Manoela Ilic)
Daily Reading List – May 11, 2023 (#087) (Richard Seroter)
Newsletter: Copilot for Docs, Wappalyzer, Illusions, Late projects, Forbidden Fruit (Tom Johnson)

The Geek Shelf

The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 11, 2023 (#3941)

Posted on May 11, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Visual Studio UI Refresh (Kaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang and Dante Gagne)
Building Go applications with the Microsoft Graph Go SDK, now generally available (Maisa Rissi)
Replicating a Dating Profile UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Introducing the Android Design Hub: The ultimate resource for building exceptional user interfaces across all form factors (Adhithya Ramkumar & Rebecca Gutteridge)
Sign CLI – Code Signing CLI tool supporting Authenticode, NuGet, VSIX, and ClickOnce (.NET Foundation)
Racing Forward at I/O 2023 with Flutter and Dart (Tim Sneath)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating a Contact Form with EmailJS and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
Step by Step Creating Your First Qwik App (Dhananjay Kumar)
Bringing Kotlin to the Web (Vivek Sekhar)
A Guide To Redux Toolkit With TypeScript (Deepak Kumar)
Deploying to App Service free tier with Bicep (Pamela Fox)
New Features in ECMAScript 2022 (Ravi Kiran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Init Only Setters in C# (Code Maze)
Building Intelligent Applications with OpenAI and C#: A Step-by-Step Guide to get started (Neel Bhatt)
.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Azure Functions Upgrades and .NET 8 (Almir Vuk)
Avoid Proliferating DbContext or IQueryable in .NET Apps (Steve Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Operating Within Gratitude (Stephanie Stimac)
Revolutionize your open source workflows: the top 3 reasons why GitHub Codespaces is a must-have for maintainers (Andrea Griffiths)
How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change? (Chelsea Troy)
How To Use Trello And Confluence Together For Effective Onboarding (Cindy Weydt)
New Resources to Build with Google AI (Jaimie Hwang & Danu Mbanga)
What’s ahead for Bard: More global, more visual, more integrated (Sissie Hsiao)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building HoloLens/MRTK3 applications on an Azure virtual Machine using GitHub Actions (Joost van Schaik)
Second Beta of Android 14 (Dave Burke)
14 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O! (Matthew McCullough)
Android Studio @ I/O ‘23: Announcing Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding assistant (Android Developers)
What’s new in Flutter 3.10 (Kevin Chisholm)
2023 Google Mobile Ads Updates for Flutter (Timothy Hoang)
Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS (Anna Bernbaum)
What’s new in Jetpack Compose (Jolanda Verhoef)
8 best-selling assets to help you get your next project ready (Unity Asset Store Team)
Announcing Dart 3 (Michael Thomsen)

Screencasts & Videos

How to add Copilot to your Power Apps | GPT-based User Controls (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Entity Framework Tooling with Erik Ejlskov Jensen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
“Jeff Teper is your Copilot” – The Intrazone podcast (Mark Kashman)
OnPodcast Ep. Google I/0 23 Special: Bard, AI Maps, AI Docs, new hardware, and more (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Agile Mentors Podcast – Exploring Lean Thinking in Agile Development (Bob Payne)
Fragmented: An Android Developer Podcast #244: Reviving Our Passion for Android Development (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
Syntax Podcast Episode 612 – UI Elements – Basics, Best Practice, and Built Ins (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
SolidStart with Ryan Carniato – JavaScript Jabber 581 (AJ ONeal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 581 – A conversation with the folks building Google’s AI models and I/O releases (Ben Popper & Paige Bailey)
Complete Developer Podcast – Mob Programming (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The Changelog – How companies are sponsoring OSS (Duane O’Brien, Chad Whitacre, Alyssa Wright, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (Garry Trinder)
Google I/O 2023 recap: Updates across mobile, web, AI, and cloud (Jeanine Banks)
Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference (Sy Brand)
Microsoft cutting more jobs in Seattle region, beyond global layoffs announced in January and Microsoft won’t give raises to full-time salaried employees this year (Taylor Soper)
Microsoft’s Activision deal expected to clear EU regulatory investigation (Kareem Anderson)
On the road to 2030: Our 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report (Melanie Nakagawa & Brad Smith)
A Message from Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO Stack Overflow (Prashanth Chandrasekar)

PowerShell & Terminal

Create MSI packages via command lines (Alex Marin)
Completion Predictor v0.1.1 Release (Steven Bucher)
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 21 (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

Disney is finally combining Hulu and Disney Plus into the same app (Emma Roth)
Getting started with Microsoft Learn (Johan Myburgh)
Polyglot Notebooks: The difference between .dib and .ipynb Files (Matt Eland)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3703 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – May 10, 2023 (#086) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Eric Brechner) – Referral Link

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